As always, the salespeople way of discrimination. That's why I always wear smarter when going to showroom, else won't get anything. It is Hyundai's loss as the 1st wave of fellows in uniforms are mostly automotive engineers and technicians from another subsidiary at my workplace HQ. They could really evaluate the car well as they are trained professionals. Too bad, they prefer shunning them away. Else, they could provide me way better review. Some of them might not want to test the car in showrooms as they had such experience, might turn to other brands.
I was on the 2nd wave (non-automotive) of uniform people to reach there. By the time I reached there, I saw those automotive guys with angry face while the salesmen where chatting with each other like never met for long time or on the phone like having big business though those office wear people already left. The engineers told me they asked the salesmen for test drive but the salesmen told them to refer salesmen who were on the phones. Never hung up. I told all of those in uniforms, since we are invisible, why not we molest the cars kawkaw and grab 1 catalogue of each model on the table. At least we get much fun.
Interior wise is spacious enough for 5 full size adults. Steering and dash quality a bit hard but still good. Exterior build quality is great. Handling & driving feel - no chance to drive. With the salesman attitude, no wonder the Sonata NF which is on par with Japanese counterpart and superior than them some aspects can't sell. Maybe because they like to turn away experts and not able to convince people to buy due to damaged reputation from public perception of heavy body with low tech engine, high FC + high maintenance. Sonata NF is indeed a better alternative to even C-segment Sylphy, Civic, Altis, etc due to its selling price. It has good handling & performance with good FC. Too bad...
One of these days, I'll need to restart those old "Showroom Experience" articles I used to do at the Blog.