GEEK CHIC

A DEEPER DIG INTO THE KOREANS’ TECH SUITE

- MIKE STEVENS

REPORT FOUR

HYUNDAI TUCSON ELITE

Price as tested $39,169

This month 1853km @ 10.4L/100km

Overall 4359km @ 10.3L/100km

TECHNOLOGY in the Hyundai range is a bit of a Jekyll & Hyde tale. The brand’s infotainment suite – that is, what you see on the cabin’s screens – is a masterclass in simplicity and user-friendliness. Where some systems will hide settings and bury features four menus deep, Hyundai’s infotainment is clean, modern, and Apple-like in its ease of use.

Hyundai’s active driver assistance systems, on the other hand, can at times manifest as irritating and – when it comes to lane-keep ‘assistance’ and collision sensing – a bit frightening.