2010 Hyundai Tucson Owners Manual – The all-new 2010 Hyundai Tucson is the strongest evidence yet that this ambitious company, once a fledgling Korean maker of cheap econoboxes, has become a bona fide international manufacturer of first-quality world cars. Just a glance back at the prior model of Tucson demonstrates how much progress Hyundai has achieved with its brand-new compact crossover. The preponderance of the Tucson’s design and engineering took place in Hyundai’s Frankfurt-based European tech center, and the product shows it. This is a get-serious crossover (very little about it suggests a truck) that is well appointed, efficient, fuel-stingy and pleasingly fun to drive. It declares in no uncertain terms that Hyundai is the real thing.
2010 Hyundai Tucson Model and Price
The 2010 Hyundai Tucson GLS 2WD ($18,995) comes with cloth upholstery, air conditioning with air filter, AM/FM/satellite radio/CD/MP3 audio with six speakers, iPod/USB input jacks, IPod cable and roof antenna, power windows/doors/locks, remote keyless entry, trip computer, tilt steering, front and cargo area power outlets, bottle holders in all four doors, rear armrest with cupholders, 60/40 split fold-down rear seatback, bodycolor rear spoiler, underfloor cargo storage, rear wiper and washer, 17-inch steel wheels. The GLS is also available with an automatic transmission ($19,995). The Tucson GLS AWD ($23,195) includes all-wheel drive, the automatic and leatherette upholstery.
2010 Hyundai Tucson Walkaround
The Hyundai people we spoke with while testing the new Tucson were excited about proclaiming this a European design. Undeniably it is, taking advantage of the current European taste for dynamic thrusting forms and aggressive angularities. This crossover is nothing if not modern. It has swoopy lines darting to and fro along its flanks, nose, and tail. The side windows have not the slightest hint of being rectangular, with the little triangular windows behind the C-pillar almost squinted shut.
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2010 Hyundai Tucson Interior Features
The first thing that strikes you climbing into the 2010 Tucson is its roomy interior’s reassuring feeling of harmony and simplicity. This car’s chief designers and stylists may have been German, but in the Tucson, there is no hint of the German tendency towards self-indulgent complexity, of making you learn all over again how to do something you already know perfectly well how to do. Decidedly to the contrary, the Tucson offers excellent ergonomics, that all but lost discipline of making a car’s controls self-explanatory and intuitive. This Hyundai gets an A-plus.
2010 Hyundai Tucson Driving Impressions
The new 2010 Tucson is a reasonably responsive driver, fully competitive with the other small utilities in its class. Its engine is smooth and quiet in normal driving, but accelerating hard onto a freeway to join the flow of traffic, its thrust is only adequate and the yowl it makes reminds you that this is after all only a small four-cylinder. But adequate is better than nothing, and in this class of vehicles, the Tucson is more than competitive.