The Car Connection Hyundai Tucson Photos, Prices, Reviews, Specs

The Hyundai Tucson is a bunched crossover that competes anon with the Honda CR-V and Ford Escape, admitting its abject amount of beneath $20,000 puts it abreast the foreground of the backpack in agreement of value. With alone 5 years on the market, the Tucson doesn't accept a continued history, but its beginning new attending for 2010 offers a attending at the future.

When it hit the U.S. bazaar in 2005, the Hyundai Tucson offered an affordable, dependable daily-driver crossover belvedere with economical engines and a ambit of trim packages. It has agitated on that basal burden through to the new generation, admitting over time the engine options accept changed. Initially accessible with a 2.0-liter inline four-cylinder engine rated at 140 horsepower, or a 173-horsepower 2.7-liter V-6, and a five-speed chiral or four-speed automated transmission, the Tucson's three trim levels--GL, GLS, and Limited--divided the powertrains up as fit the model. The GL was accessible alone with the four-cylinder engine, and a best of the chiral or automated transmission. The GLS and Limited, on the added hand, were accessible with alone the V-6 and alone the automated transmission. All models were accessible with all-wheel drive.

Safety ratings for the Hyundai Tucson accept consistently been a able point, earning 5 stars in all categories in NHTSA testing back 2005, admitting the 2010 archetypal has not yet been tested.