2023 Hyundai Palisade (inc. 0-100 & autonomy test) SUV review

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The updated Hyundai Palisade is here and Paul Maric has finally driven it! It's been a long time coming - you guys keep asking us for this one - and we finally got the chance to get it through the garage. This is the 2023 Hyundai Palisade Elite V6 petrol variant. See what Paul Maric thinks in the video.  Hardness tester, noise and lane keeping results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  More Hyundai content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/hyundai More Hyundai Palisade content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/hyundai/palisade  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior 00:55 Interior 03:33 Infotainment 04:48 Safety Tech 07:25 Practicality 08:17 On the Road 14:11 0-100km/h 19:11 Driver Aids 20:31 Verdict 23:03  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #hyundai #palisade #review

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Welcome to summer in Melbourne, freezing and wet.

00:04 This is the updated Hyundai Palisade. While I guess the world is moving

00:09 towards people movers again, slowly they're kind of coming back into fashion,

00:14 these still reign supreme because people like the higher ride height and the

00:18 fact that you can get this in seven or eight seats as well. And it's just been

00:22 facelifted, so I'm going to run you through all the changes,

00:24 take it for a spin and see if it's any good. Now this here is the Elite, so it's

00:28 the entry-level front-wheel drive petrol V6. It's priced at just under $66,000.

00:34 This competes with things like the Mazda CX-9, Toyota Kluger, the Nissan Pathfinder.

00:39 Today we're going to do a detailed review of this car, so if you do want to skip

00:42 ahead to other parts of this review, you can use the time codes on the screen,

00:46 or if you're on YouTube, you can scroll down and use the chapters below. And if

00:49 you haven't done so already, please subscribe, press the bell icon, every new

00:52 subscriber will make me slightly warmer. Now let's talk about exterior design.

00:58 First, you've got nine colors to pick from. All but white is going to set you

01:01 back just under $700. Two of those colors are unique to the top spec Highlander.

01:06 Now the facelift. Our good friend Oscar, who we spent a fun day out with to raise

01:11 money for charity, really loved this, and if you want to see his video, you can

01:15 click up there to watch that. I love what they've done here, because the

01:19 previous generation, I thought it looked good, but not really amazing, and the

01:23 whole split headlight design didn't really work for me. This, on the other

01:26 hand, it looks fantastic, and in the right colors. This sort of black highlight

01:32 they've got really just gives it this sinister look. So you've got this

01:35 enormous grille here, big Hyundai logo there in black with radar sensor down the

01:40 bottom. And sorry the car's so dirty, the weather has just been atrocious.

01:44 Up the top here, you've got the LED indicator and then LED daytime running

01:48 light. This is actually where your headlight cluster is, so it's full LED

01:52 headlights there. A little air gap here that comes out behind that section

01:57 there in front of the wheels. I like this section down the bottom here as well, so

02:00 again they've restrained themselves from using too much chrome. This is like a

02:04 shadow chrome finish. Whip around to the side here. So down here you've got a set

02:09 of 20-inch alloy wheels. This design looks really nice as well, so machined

02:13 finish on the outside and then a graphite look on the inside there. Wheel

02:17 arch cladding. I did mention earlier this is front-wheel drive only for the

02:20 petrol V6. A real shame because I would love to see the petrol V6 available in

02:25 all-wheel drive. You can only get the all-wheel drive with the diesel, but you

02:27 know, it is what it is. Up the top here, you've got an indicator built into that

02:31 wing mirror. Have a look at that design, that's pretty cool. A little edge on it

02:34 just there as well. Now this is available with the 360 camera in the top spec. This

02:38 only has a reverse camera, but under here you do have puddle lamps. That black

02:42 section continues all the way down the side of the car with a bit more of that

02:45 shadow chrome. I've just noticed there as well, that's not the best finish in the

02:49 world. That panel sort of sticks out quite a bit compared to the rear ones. So,

02:54 privacy glass, you've got a set of roof rails just here and then whip around to

02:58 the back. It is a long way to walk to the back as well. So 3.8 which designates the

03:03 petrol engine. Full LED taillights in here as well, they look great at night time.

03:08 Shark fin aerial up the top, little boot lip spoiler there with the brake light

03:11 integrated into there. Palisade in big lettering there as well and then sort of

03:17 dual exhaust pipes down the bottom. So let me know what you reckon about the

03:20 design here of the Palisade. Do you think this updated, refreshed design looks

03:24 good? I actually think it looks really nice and meaty and has really cool

03:28 presence on the road as well, which you probably don't associate with a family

03:32 sized SUV. So we are inside the Palisade. We'll start off with the key. So you've

03:38 got lock, unlock, boot, remote start and then Hyundai on the back. This is a

03:45 proximity sensing key so that can live in your pocket. Once you're inside you

03:48 have a push button start just there. Yeah look I quite like the design of this. I

03:53 love the fact that there's no analog gauges here ahead of the driver even on

03:56 the base model and they've gone to a bit of effort here with soft touch finishes

03:59 just to really give it a nice and premium look and same story down here.

04:04 Limited use or actually no use aside from around the display here of piano

04:08 black which is very nice to see. You don't really feel like you're just

04:13 spending money on the base model here. It actually looks pretty well equipped.

04:16 In terms of your touch points, so all that stuff along the dashboard's great.

04:20 Here it's sort of it's firm but soft and softer on the door. How soft is it? Well

04:26 we've tested the main surfaces in this cabin with our durometer. If you want to

04:29 see how this car compares to other cars that we've tested before, look at the

04:32 link in the description below. Now build quality. It's not too bad. All feels okay

04:39 aside from that sort of door issue that we mentioned earlier. It all feels okay.

04:43 Door test.

04:46 Sounds pretty solid. Let's talk infotainment. So you've got two main

04:51 displays ahead of the driver. You have this 12.3 inch infotainment display and

04:54 then another 12.3 inch display that gives you critical car information. This one's

04:59 a touchscreen. This one is not a touchscreen. I really like this Hyundai

05:03 infotainment system from a clarity point of view. It's a really high resolution

05:07 screen. Everything is very nice and easy to read and it's very fast as well. If I

05:11 go back here to the main menu, getting between these sections is really quick

05:16 and easy. No dramas there at all. So you get inbuilt satellite navigation.

05:19 Hyundai's now rolled out a thing called Blue Link as well which is standard in

05:23 Palisade. So it gives you the option to make SOS calls and also connect with

05:26 your car remotely using an app to check status and do all those sorts of fun

05:31 things. In addition to that on the smartphone mirroring front, I have no

05:35 idea why they do this but it's still not wireless smartphone connectivity. So you

05:40 have to use a cable for both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto which I think

05:44 is a little bit disappointing but you know it is what it is I guess. I'll show

05:48 you what Apple CarPlay looks like. So big full screen integration there which is

05:53 one of the big benefits of it at the very least and this is what Android Auto

05:57 looks like. This is a weird one. So it's not a full screen integration and

06:01 Hyundai previously explained that it was a limitation of Samsung and not them but

06:06 I've seen plenty of cars now that have full widescreen Android Auto

06:11 integration so I don't know. It's a weird Hyundai thing that we constantly see.

06:16 On the radio front you have AM/FM/DAB digital radio and it's all plumbed

06:20 through a 12 speaker Infinity branded sound system. Good sound system. It all

06:24 sounds great. I love these features as well on the infotainment system. You have

06:28 passenger talk so when I push that I can actually project audio to the third row

06:33 so they can clearly hear what I'm saying which I think is a really cool feature.

06:36 You have quiet mode which restricts audio just to the first row so kids can

06:41 sleep in the back if they need to. You also have the ability to control your

06:44 third zone of climate for the second and third rows and you also have a voice

06:48 memo function as well along with a valet mode too. Screen ahead of the driver

06:53 here so that all changes display when you change drive modes and then outside

06:57 of that you can rifle through all the settings in the center display as well

07:01 pretty easily too. Another high resolution screen. I love that functionality. It does

07:05 miss out on a couple of features though. You don't have the camera that pops up

07:09 there when you put the indicator on. That is restricted to the top spec version

07:12 and then another random feature as well that's not really infotainment-ish but

07:18 there's no auto wipers. Like it's a $65,000 car without auto wipers which I

07:23 just find completely bizarre. Let's talk safety tech. So you have autonomous

07:27 emergency braking. It comes with a feature called junction assist so if you

07:30 try and turn across oncoming traffic it's going to hit the brakes for you. You

07:34 have an auto dimming rear vision mirror, blind spot monitor built into the wing

07:39 mirror just there. You have radar cruise control. You also have a lane centering

07:43 function. We'll test that later on to see how well that works. Rear cross traffic

07:47 alert both front and rear parking sensors and a reverse view camera. I'll

07:51 show you what that looks like. Quality isn't amazing. It's kind of blurry on the

07:56 outer edges there. You can kind of see what's going on there on the suitcase but

08:01 not really too much. You can then go for a sort of super-sized view there if

08:05 you're connecting a trailer which makes it a little better but you can see there

08:08 isn't really a great deal of definition on it. And our horn test. Have a listen.

08:12 It's very prestigious. Moving on to practicality and we'll start off with

08:19 your connectivity. So you've got one USB-A port here. This is where you connect

08:24 your smartphone mirroring. You've got a wireless phone charger there. Down here

08:28 you've got a USB-C port and a 12-volt outlet. Your phone can live there on the

08:31 wireless charger. There are stacks of storage spaces for it which is really

08:35 good. In terms of storing other things, what about your coffee cup? It lives

08:41 nicely in there and these things are retractable as well so you can whip

08:45 those out of the way if you do want a little bit more space down there which

08:49 is cool. In terms of bottle storage, the bottle fits into there. There are teeth

08:53 but you can see here that a standard-sized bottle just sort of rolls around a fair

08:56 bit. Fits inside the door though which is good news and then also have space for a

09:03 big bottle but unfortunately it doesn't fit inside the door. Other storage, you

09:10 have big old center console here. In here you're going to find another USB-C port

09:14 and another 12-volt outlet. You also have a coin tray. You've got a glove box over

09:20 here and finally you have some storage down the bottom here as well. So there

09:25 are stacks of places to store all the kids things. I almost forgot to mention

09:28 you can be a helicopter parent as well if you do want. A little mirror built into

09:33 there instead of a sunglasses holder. Let's talk comfort. You have dual zone

09:38 automatic climate control here for the front row plus an additional zone for

09:41 your second and third rows. Headed seats for the front row. In terms of seat

09:45 adjustment, the driver's seat is electrically adjustable. You can go

09:48 forwards, backwards, backrest can go forwards, backwards, front of the seat can

09:53 go up, back of the seat can go up and you also have lumbar adjustment. Passenger

09:56 seat is manually adjustable. Seat itself is actually really nice and comfy so if

10:01 you are doing any long-distance drive with the kids it is actually really nice

10:05 to sit in. Nice contour there as well so it's pretty decent seating setup.

10:10 Steering offers both tilt and reach adjustment. On our reach test some of the

10:15 buttons here on the outer edge are a little hard to grab so you've got to kind

10:18 of lean in to get that home button. I would have thought that would be a better

10:22 bet to have that stuck on this side instead. So second row of the Palisade.

10:27 This is a big old door. Have a look at that thing. Opens nice and wide as well

10:31 which is good news. Back here, legroom bloody huge and then you've got stacks of

10:36 toe room. Headroom is excellent as well. This row also slides forwards and

10:41 backwards if you do need to give your third row a little bit more room. You can

10:44 also get this in a seven or eight seat configuration and in the seven seat

10:48 configuration this is used as a pass-through here to the three seats in

10:52 the back. Creature comforts. You have your third zone of climate control here. You

10:58 have a 12-volt outlet down the bottom here plus two USB-C ports built into the

11:03 seats. Map pockets as well. 16 cup holders in total inside the cabin so a couple

11:09 there inside the door. You can also throw a bottle down there as well. You have a

11:13 centre armrest here with another two cup holders plus a little coffee holder in

11:18 the centre there which is good. Out of the way. Now seating. You have ISOFIX

11:23 points on these two outboard seats. In addition to that you also have five top

11:28 tether points. So three along here and then two along three of your third row

11:33 seats as well. So stacks of seating options there if you do have a litany of

11:37 children. Window test. So it's auto up and down. Oh look at that goes all the way

11:45 down as well. Very impressive. Now third row. Let's have a little sticky beak. I

11:50 want to see if we can fit adults in there. So you've got a button here that

11:53 allows all of that to slide forward. I'll hop on in. See what this is like. All

11:59 right. So pull this back. Lock that into position. OK. So it's actually not too

12:08 bad back here. So I've got a decent amount of knee room. Toe room is

12:12 restricted but you know not terrible. I should actually point out as well there

12:16 is actually an ISOFIX point here on my seat as well. So that means you've got

12:20 two on the outboard seats here. One on this one plus all of your top tethers. So

12:23 here's a pretty good space there in terms of getting kids in which is good.

12:28 Sean what's knee room like down there? I'm just curious. OK. So it is a little

12:32 bit cramped when you do compare those two but it's not terrible. So yes an

12:38 adult can fit in here and then in terms of your creature comforts you have

12:42 air vents up the top here. Airbag coverage for all three rows. USB C ports

12:46 and also some more cup holders because you can never have too many cup holders.

12:51 So let's talk cargo space. How much room have we got here? Crank this open.

12:56 Powered tailgate. Matrix style. Jump out of the way. So you have just over 300

13:01 litres of capacity available here with the third row in place. I think this is a

13:05 really sort of usable space as well because if you look under here you

13:08 actually have a fair bit of storage there including storage for the cargo

13:11 blind. You also have a full-size spare under there as well. It is quite

13:15 remarkable how much they can package into these things and actually put some

13:18 effort into it. So see if it fits our bags. So there's the laptop bag. Yeah no

13:23 dramas at all. Very impressive. So to clear yourself a little bit more room

13:28 you can ditch your third row. That folds away into the floor there. The only

13:33 downside to this is getting the third row up. You've got to lean all the way in

13:37 and pull it up which can be a little cumbersome but it's not the end of the

13:40 world. So this space here is just over 700 litres and you can expand that even

13:44 more by moving your second row forward. That means you do have a slightly more

13:48 versatile space to play with. Over here you'll find a subwoofer, a 12-volt

13:53 outlet plus a couple of hooks off to the sides as well. The other good news is

13:57 that you can drop the second row easily here using these buttons. So one push of

14:02 each of those and that disappears as well. It gives you a space of just under

14:06 1300 litres with a flat floor as well.

14:09 So we have just hit the road in the Palisade. This is actually one of my

14:18 favourite engines out there and it's kind of weird. We tested the, was it the

14:22 Carnival ages ago with this engine and it's just so smooth and enjoyable to

14:26 drive. It's a 3.8-litre naturally aspirated petrol V6. Makes a little over

14:31 200 kilowatts of power and just over 350 newton metres of torque and it's all

14:36 mated to a normal gearbox, so an eight-speed torque converter and as a

14:40 result of that it's really just nice and smooth. You can just rest on the throttle,

14:44 just starts delivering torque and then when you do stand on it, it kind of just

14:48 arcs into action and everything sort of picks up and moves. The only downside to

14:53 it all though is that it is front-wheel drive and what you do find is that if

14:57 you're a bit greedy with the throttle sometimes, you're fighting traction

15:01 control constantly. But just to exaggerate what I mean, I'm going to switch

15:05 stability control off here just so you can kind of get a feel for it. So going

15:11 around a bend here, I'm then just going to nail the throttle and then you get

15:18 that inside front wheel spinning. So what I basically mean by all that is that

15:25 if it is wet, even if it is sort of fairly dry here and you need to stand on

15:29 it, you're always going to be fighting that power and that torque, especially in

15:34 a front-wheel drive application, which is why I wish this engine was available

15:38 with all-wheel drive. So how does all that feel behind the wheel? Well, it's

15:42 actually a surprisingly quick gearbox. I kind of lament the fact that a lot of

15:45 manufacturers have gone down the path of dual clutches for efficiency, because

15:49 dual clutches were the performance gearbox and now they're all about

15:52 efficiency. This on the other hand, it's just really nice and responsive. It's

15:56 always eager to drop down through some gears and get you in that optimum torque

16:00 band. So there's a really nice combo there between the engine and also the

16:04 transmission. Now if you put all that to one side though, 10.7 litres per 100 ks

16:09 is the combined fuel economy we are currently sitting on. Let me whip through

16:14 our menu here. We're currently sitting on 11.4. I reckon 11.4 is pretty good. What

16:22 you find typically with Kluger and those bigger V6 naturally aspirated petrol

16:27 SUVs is they do tend to suck through a bit of juice. If this was available in

16:31 all-wheel drive, it would probably use even more juice, because at the end of the

16:35 day you are countering those efficiency losses through the drivetrain by using

16:39 more petrol. So I think it is a good engine for this combination, but yeah,

16:42 just wish it was available in all-wheel drive. Let's talk about the ride. So

16:46 Hyundai has killed most of its local ride and handling tuning program. As a

16:50 result of that, this comes just with a base tune that is delivered with the car,

16:54 and I actually think it's pretty good. It did have a sign-off here in Australia by

16:57 the local team, but I think they've done a good job here in smoothing everything

17:00 out. It's nice in and around the city, and then as the speed picks up as well, it

17:04 is still really nice and comfortable, even if you have a full load of passengers

17:07 on board. Okay, sine waves. Let's dial the speed up to 130km/h and see what it

17:14 feels like here. So 130km/h is the maximum speed limit in Australia. This car

17:19 had no local ride and handling tune, so we'll see how it fares with the sine

17:24 waves.

17:26 It's actually not terrible. It's far better than I thought it was. This is a US

17:32 market car, and given that tune in the back of your mind, you would expect it to

17:38 be quite bad over the sine waves, because they are often softly sprung, but it

17:41 actually feels really nice and competent there, even though they didn't do any

17:44 tuning here in Australia.

17:47 Let's talk drive mode. So you select them using this lever here.

17:51 Once you flick through them on the screen there, you can see the display

17:54 changes. Pop it into Sport, see what it's like around our track here.

18:00 A bit of understeer there, given it is a front-wheel drive, but this is such a

18:09 perky engine. Once you're in the torque band of this engine, it really picks up

18:13 and moves. I love the noise as well. It sounds fantastic once it's moving along,

18:19 and look, even though it is a front-wheel drive, I mentioned earlier on those

18:23 issues with traction at lower speeds, but you might

18:27 notice here at higher speeds, even though this isn't built

18:30 as a sporty vehicle, it actually holds on really nicely, and the ride

18:36 that they've dialled into it really complements the package to it.

18:40 It smooths it out nicely if you're hitting bumps mid-corner.

18:44 It's actually surprisingly nimble for something this size. Obviously, you're not

18:51 going to be doing this type of driving all the time, but if you do want to

18:53 venture out and go for a little fang, it is actually pretty engaging. I'll give it a

18:58 punch on the bank straight here.

18:59 That is moving. That is absolutely moving. Wow, okay, there you go. Nice on Hyundai.

19:08 Okay, let's talk 0-100. So there is no official time from Hyundai, but I'll pop it

19:18 into sport mode. It is a tiny bit damp out there, so I'll switch

19:23 stability control off as well, just so we have

19:25 an ability to get traction here. So V-Box is ready. We'll go all the way up to 120 as

19:31 well. So here we go.

19:32 A little bit of wheel slip.

19:37 Okay, once it hooks up, it is absolutely moving. All right, there it is there.

19:46 Come to a full stop and have a look at that time. So 0-100 in 7.5 seconds and 80-120

19:54 in 4.5 seconds. So really healthy numbers there. Okay, time for our reverse speed

20:00 test. We tested the KSL TOS the other day. It did like 75 in reverse, so I wonder if

20:06 it's a Korean car thing. So here we go.

20:11 Moving, holy crap.

20:13 Oh, 76 k's an hour.

20:17 That is ridiculous.

20:21 That is actually ridiculous. I am so impressed with that. Yes, very good.

20:29 Okie dokie, it's time to do some testing of the lane support systems here. So

20:36 going to get this up to 70 k's an hour and we'll switch on cruise control.

20:42 So there it is there. I'll just dial that up to 70. It's a bit hard to see everything

20:49 with all of these GoPros. There we are. So you can see that flashing there. That is our

20:54 lane departure warning and lane keeping assistant. But then when I push this button

20:59 here on the steering wheel, it brings up the steering wheel and that is basically your

21:02 lane centering function. So we're going to test it in the three outer lanes here.

21:07 The whole concept of this is not to test what the car is like on a banked oval. It has nothing

21:11 to do with it. It's more to test how much torque the car is willing to apply to the

21:14 wheel to keep it within its lane. So we find some of the newer cars with the better systems

21:18 will hold our third lane where it is quite a steep bank, whereas the worse cars won't

21:23 work and Volkswagens don't even work at all in that third lane. So let's give this a shot.

21:27 So right now, working great here in our first lane. I'll jump over to the next lane over.

21:32 It'll get progressively harder. We'll see how it holds to that. Wait for all that to go green.

21:37 There it is there. So it's doing this. Yeah, okay, cool. So we've got everything now.

21:41 We're riding that line. We're basically on that line right now,

21:45 slowly bringing us into the center. But if I was actually driving, I would have yanked the

21:49 wheel over because if there was a truck or something like that, I wouldn't want to be

21:53 sitting next to that. So it's not that good. It's taking us back over to that line and it's

21:57 now crossed the line. So I don't have high hopes for the third lane here, but we'll give it a shot

22:02 anyway and see how it works. So we'll wait for that to try and detect the lines. So it's detected

22:10 the lanes, but it's not activating our steering function. I suspect the angle is too steep here.

22:17 So, yeah, no bueno for lane number three. Just a pass for lane number one and lane number two was

22:24 still slightly bit sketchy as well. Now what about your road noise? It's actually pretty

22:28 quiet in here. Even when you are on the course chip sections of country road, you don't have a

22:33 huge amount of noise coming into the cabin. So it's quite impressive in that regard, and I think

22:37 that they've done a really good job ironing out all of that sort of inherent stuff that you hear,

22:42 wind noise, tyre noise. Even on a day like today where it is really windy, I'm really not hearing

22:47 a great deal at highway speeds. Turning circle comes in at just under 12 metres, and if you do

22:51 want to do some towing, it's a little over two tonnes with a brake trailer, which is shorter

22:56 than 2,700 kilos you can do with the Pathfinder. So the Hyundai Palisade, I don't know what it is,

23:09 but the Pathfinder and this, it kind of makes you want to find a whole bunch of kids that you need

23:13 to transport, because it is actually a really impressive SUV. It is a great shame it's not

23:19 offered as an all-wheel drive with that petrol V6. I think that is like the ultimate misery in

23:25 the Hyundai range. You have to go down the path of the diesel, and I don't know, I think this is

23:28 just a much better engine. So hopefully someone at Hyundai is listening and they end up doing

23:32 an all-wheel drive version of the petrol V6, because it is a really nice all-rounder. You

23:36 don't really need to step up to the top spec, well, unless you want automatic windscreen wipers.

23:41 Now let me know, have you bought a Palisade? What is it like? Did you go for the diesel,

23:44 or did you go for the petrol? Let me know in the comments section down there. If you did enjoy this

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