2015 Hyundai Sonata — a competitor in the crowded midsize category - SFGate (blog)
We spent a week with the Sonata Sport, a four-door sedan with the Sonata series’ most powerful engine, a 2-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder motor, pumping out 245 horsepower, driven through a six-speed automatic transmission. There’s nothing really flashy about these cars and they end up doing the day-in, day-out chores most of us do in our cars. Revisions over the years brought change – the car actually got ugly, epitomized by the stodgy facelifts of the fourth and fifth generation in the early 2000s. Things made an abrupt and wild improvement with the sixth generation, introduced as a... This was the car that sets the tone for current Sonatas, including our 2015 Sport model, which we found fit us pretty well. As scheduling would have it, we got the Sonata only two weeks after playing with a new (second-generation) Hyundai Genesis, the company’s near-luxury sedan, second only to the Equus. The Sonata fared well, in comparison, especially when you consider that our optioned-up Sonata had a sticker price of $34,460, some $15,000 less than the Genesis. Source: blog.sfgate.com
