Conservative in the extreme
It s fair to say that our long-term Hyundai Tucson II 2.0 Elite 2WD had a hard act to follow. By which we mean our previous long-term Tucson II Limited AWD diesel.
That s a lot of Tucson talk to take in, but basically: our previous Tucson was a fully loaded luxury model with a torquey turbo-diesel engine, 8-speed automatic gearbox and AWD. It was a smooth operator, no question. As it should have been, for $63,990. Gulp.
The idea was always to go from from a high-specification Tucson to something a bit more mainstream and that s exactly what we did for our second term: a move into a model with the entry-level 2.0-litre petrol engine and FWD. Although we did treat ourselves to Elite specification and gain a few goodies.