Gadgetory

this is the 2016 hyundai elantra GT and well frankly it's a bit of a copycat the exterior design to me kind of looks like last generations mazda3 the interior design well what's it reminding me of that's right the Ford Focus it looks almost exactly like what chords doing right now it's a bit of a remix of all of these sort of best hits of its class everything about this car is very derivative but it still has its own charms and it's pretty likable under the hood two liter gasoline direct injected engine that puts out 174 horsepower at about a hundred fifty-four pound-feet of torque the EPA reckons you're gonna get about 27 miles per gallon combined with that engine whether it's mated with the automatic or manual transmission both of those are six speeds the elantra GT does make a lot of really good sort of first impressions when you get into it dual zone automatic climate control the front seats are heated and cooled we've got this optional really large panoramic moon roof above us we've also gotten a really nice sort of blue link navigation system it's really snappy everything's really well organised and it's just a really nice system to use voice command is a little bit wonky in a little bit slow but at least it lets you chuck the whole address in in one go and then get back to the business of driving I do like that and when i first got behind the wheel of this car the first thing I thought is that well it just feels really tight the steering system that we've got here that has a cool feature called driver selectable steering that lets you sort of change the steering effort from sport to comfort or normal a touch of a button even it feels very well-composed and very well controlled despite all that it does right it does kind of still miss the mark on a lot of features for example that really good dashboard interface its position in the way that will it always getting hit by the Sun and just sort of straight up hang out you can barely see this thing half of the day and despite the fact that it's got more power and better performance on papers and a lot of its competitors on the road it just doesn't feel as snappy or a zippy you say a Volkswagen GTI or a Ford Focus it's not that fun of a car to drive despite the fact that we've got our optional sport suspension here Hyundai is basically remix the greatest hits of this genre and created a new song now you're probably thinking two things right now yes the music metaphor is a better match for the hyundai sonata and you're probably also thinking that well at least Hyundai's got that value for the dollar thing going for itself well let's take a look the 2016 hyundai elantra GT gets off the line at eighteen thousand eight hundred bucks when equipped with the manual transmission this automatic example is a thousand bucks more we've also got the style package which is going to add bigger wheels and a sport suspension and a tech package we're just going to add that big moonroof and all of the dashboard tech we've also got 125 bucks in floor mat yes you got to pay extra for that and eight hundred and twenty-five dollars in destination charges that brings you to our ads tested price of twenty-six thousand six hundred and seventy-five bucks now about now you're probably thinking that for that sort of money you get a fully loaded Ford Focus titanium 5-door arguably a better car for the money when it comes to performance and technology and it'll automatically parallel park itself plus you don't have to pay extra for the floor mat