Giant step in the development of the new Hyundai KONA 2024, which has shed part of its camouflage on a visit to the Alps. The Koreans have moved their base of operations to Austria, where this second generation of one of the most successful SUVs in the range has been caught in some interesting spy photos.
Just five months of development and the prototypes of the new Hyundai KONA 2024 They have unveiled part of their camouflage in one of the first visits they have made to the Alps. South Koreans have moved from Russelheim to the roads of the Grossglockner in Austriato carry out a new batch of tests, where they have been surprised along with one of their most direct rivals and a sales success.
The spy photos They show a large part of the front exposed, without the usual canvas and only with vinyl covering the bodywork, which allows a more detailed visualization of the design of a model that has the difficult challenge of continuing with the brutal commercial success experienced by the current generation of the KONA. And, as you can see, the image follows the characteristic line of the brand’s SUVs, with the headlights divided into two levels, although the KONA 2024 will offer ua more distinctive personality with a light strip on the edge of the bonneta detail inherited from the new Staria, the new and commercial minivan.
Spy photos Hyundai KONA 2024 in the Alps
Thanks to the tests we can see that the main functions of the lighting, together with the turn indicators, are in their own housing at the ends of the bumper, flanking a trapezoidal grill that is incomplete. The same style of split lights also plays at the rear, although on this occasion it maintains the camouflage canvas, preventing new details from being seen. The spy photos also show the passenger’s door panel, although he does not discover the design of it as he is dressed in a curtain.
The SX2, as it is known internally, has been conducting tests with the Volkswagen T-Rocone of the main rivals whom he has the objective of dethroning, a true reverse engineering exercise for discover the technical adjustments that allow you to be in the top positions of sales. Despite this circumstance, the South Koreans will put all the meat on the grill, as usual, to offer a revolutionary interior that we have already seen and that is inspired by that of the IONIQ 5, so a high dose of technology.
The new Hyundai KONA is expected to debut in about a year, so to be sold in the second half of 2023 as a 2024 model. And it will do so with the same range of engines as the current model, gasoline, hybrid and electric, in addition to a plug-in hybrid that will replace diesel. Three and four cylinder versions, with traction front or full and with automatic gearboxin addition to the corresponding sports version N that will arrive later.