The 2025 Hyundai Tucson arrives dressed up on this era’s mid-cycle refresh and that includes an assortment of latest tech.
Trying across the exterior, you’ll discover the up to date Tucson will get a brand new grille, contemporary bumpers in entrance and rear and a brand new daytime operating mild look with bigger lighting areas than earlier than. Smaller tweaks like new wheel designs, a bigger rear wiper blade and a brand new anodized look to the badging spherical out the adjustments. And should you go for the extra rugged-looking XRT, Hyundai provides new raised roof rails for larger functionality.
Hyundai’s powertrain choices are largely carryover, although the Hybrid will get a slight enhance with a extra highly effective electrical motor (goes from 59 horsepower to 64 horsepower), giving it a complete system output of 231 horses and 258 pound-feet of torque. The bottom engine continues to be the two.5-liter four-cylinder that produces 187 horsepower and 178 pound-feet of torque, whereas probably the most highly effective model continues to be the PHEV with 268 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. A brand new “Child Mode” joins the assorted drive modes for 2025, too, and Hyundai says it “helps cut back the sharpness of preliminary acceleration, smoothing out driver inputs for a gentler acceleration feeling for passengers.”
The in-cabin expertise is the place Hyundai utilized its most impactful adjustments for 2025. It incorporates a new sprint with a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and a brand new (OTA-capable) 12.3-inch touchscreen infotainment system operating Hyundai’s newest software program that options “quicker processing speeds, enhanced colours and sharper graphics.” All trims characteristic wi-fi Apple CarPlay/Android Auto now, too. Under the infotainment is a redesigned middle stack that does away with the Tucson’s irritating contact haptic controls for extra user-friendly knobs and switches. This new setup seems like an enormous improve for ease of use and ergonomics. Along with the sprint, the Tucson has a redesigned middle console, steering wheel and door panels. There’s additionally a brand new tray situated simply above the glovebox for storing small objects.
Larger trims will even get a brand new column-mounted gear selector we’ve seen applied in different Hyundai merchandise for extra middle console house. A brand new wi-fi telephone charger is claimed to supply improved efficiency, and the USB-C ports supply quicker charging speeds. Restricted fashions add acoustic glass within the entrance home windows for a quieter cabin expertise. A bigger 12-inch colour HUD will probably be accessible, and a brand new biometric authenticator can be utilized to begin the automobile up with no key fob. Hyundai’s Digital Key 2 tech can be current, which permits for locking, unlocking and engine begin by way of your telephone’s presence – it additionally means that you can simply share short-term entry to the automobile from one telephone to a different.
So far as driver help techniques go, the 2025 Tucson provides Ahead Consideration Warning, which is basically a driver monitor that makes use of an infrared digicam to trace the motive force’s consideration ranges.
The up to date Tucson in commonplace engine type will hit sellers in June this 12 months, and each the Hybrid and PHEV will comply with in late summer season. Pricing for the 2025 automobile will probably be revealed nearer to the on-sale dates.
