Key facts
- Manufacturer
- Hyundai
- Production
- 1985–present
- Class
- Mid-size car ( D )
- Body style
- 4-door sedan
- Layout
- Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (1985–1988) Front-engine, front-wheel-drive (1988–present) Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (2023–present)
- Predecessor
- Hyundai Stellar
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- car model
- Subclass of
- mid-size car
- Followed by
- Hyundai i40
- Follows
- Hyundai Stellar
- Manufacturer
- Hyundai Motor Company
- Official website
- www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/cars/sonata
- Image
- Hyundai Sonata 2.5 T-GDI N Line (VIII, Facelift) – f1 08012026.jpg
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- Hyundai Sonata
- different from
- Hyundai Avante (Elantra)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hyundai Sonata (Korean: 현대 쏘나타) is a mid-size car that has been manufactured by Hyundai since 1985. The first generation Sonata, which was introduced in 1985, was a facelifted version of the Hyundai Stellar with an engine upgrade, and was withdrawn from the market in two years due to poor customer reaction. While the nameplate was originally only sold in South Korea, the second generation of 1988 was widely exported.
The Sonata is currently manufactured in South Korea, China, and Pakistan. It was named after the musical term, sonata. It was formerly manufactured in the United States from 2005 until 2022, though after 2022, American production was phased out.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hyundai Sonata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.