THE ALL-NEW HYUNDAI PALISADE

Meet the new Palisade from Hyundai – the newest luxury SUV, complete with lavish finishes and an updated exterior design. The Palisade is designed to deliver extraordinary comfort, luxury convenience, and performance, all within an accommodating spacious premium interior. End the monotony of travel. The Palisade was introduced on the local market in 2021 as a bit of an experiment to see if consumers would be willing to buy a Hyundai priced around the R1-million mark. In two years, 256 units of the Palisade have been sold, which appears to have been enough to warrant bringing the facelifted model to market.

This latest edition to the Hyundai range is an easy choice for drivers with an appetite for comfort, cutting-edge design and generous seating and leg room. Available in 7- or 8-seater configurations, you will be treated to an aesthetic black chrome radiator grille, full leather interior, and a heated multi-functioning steering wheel.

The facelifted Hyundai Palisade incorporates minor cosmetic updates that make the SUV appear more hunkered-down, with a lower stance. The grille finish has changed from chrome, while the teardrop LED running light clusters have moved to the outsides of the bumper. The revised side profile is distinguished by new 20-inch alloy wheels, while the rear remains virtually unchanged, save for the new positioning of the lower taillamps that are now integrated into the width of the rear bumper. Incidentally, the facelifted Palisade is also 15 mm longer than its predecessor.

Embrace peace of mind with advanced safety features like the 360 -degree surround view monitor, lane keep and follow assist, and the revolutionary Hyundai Smart Sense safety package. The next-gen family carrier also offers smart adaptive cruise control

The only engine in the line-up is the 142 kW/440 Nm 2.2-litre 4-cylinder turbodiesel.  In overseas markets, the Palisade comes with a 3.8-litre petrol V6, which would probably drink you out of house and home, but that motor delivers more of the performance you need for an SUV of this size. The turbodiesel propels the hefty Palisade and its 8-speed automatic transmission shifts near-seamlessly in the background. The Hyundai’s powertrain enables the premium SUV to maintain the national speed limit with ease.

The larger (12-inch) infotainment touchscreen is much more up-to-date than the pre-facelift model’s 8-inch unit and incorporates a few more modern features that make the Palisade’s user experience feel more upmarket. There’s a speaker feature that enables you to talk to the rear passengers via the audio system’s speakers (rather than shouting from the front). It also has a quiet mode that allows you to turn off the rear speakers (if, for example, the tots are asleep), while keeping the front speakers active. As for its connectivity, Android Auto/Apple Carplay connectivity is available wirelessly, while the wireless phone charger has been upgraded from a 5W- to a 15W unit.

Some new safety features on the 2023 Palisade scored 5 stars in the Australian standard crash test programme (ANCAP), which tests right-hand-drive cars. The model is now specced with forward-collision avoidance, lane-keep assist, blind-spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control and safe exiting (an alert goes off if you attempt to open the doors while traffic is closing in on the vehicle).

As for the seat layout, the Captain’s seating setup (on the 7-seater version) provides an upmarket feel with 2 individual 2nd-row seats and a runway between them to ease access to the rearmost row. All seats can be folded flat individually, so it offers a highly adaptable and, therefore, practical cabin layout.

Fit-and-finish seems very good, the cabin ergonomics are great and the sound insulation from outside elements is very good, even on dirt roads.

The Palisade’s driving experience is admirable; it rides particularly well for something that sits on 20-inch wheels.

The Palisade is notably quiet inside and its suspension feels well-damped over gravel and washboard dirt roads. The Palisade’s “gravel travel” ability, is more of a soft-roader than a “gravel-traveller.”

The All-wheel drive is standard, but the Palisade’s an SUV-styled people mover, so there’s no low range and the ground clearance is average (203 mm). A typical Palisade buyer is unlikely to venture into the wilderness with their vehicle often, but it will easily handle long stints on gravel roads/backtracks.

The updated Hyundai Palisade is sold with a 7-year/200 000 km warranty and a 7-year/105 000 km service plan.

The Palisade R2.2 Elite 7-seater 8AT AWD and the Palisade R2.2 Elite 8-seater AT AWD starts at R1 099 000.

Meet the new Palisade from Hyundai – the newest luxury SUV, complete with lavish finishes and an updated exterior design. The Palisade is designed to deliver extraordinary comfort, luxury convenience, and performance, all within an accommodating spacious premium interior. End the monotony of travel. The Palisade was introduced on the local market in 2021 as a bit of an experiment to see if consumers would be willing to buy a Hyundai priced around the R1-million mark. In two years, 256 units of the Palisade have been sold, which appears to have been enough to warrant bringing the facelifted model to market.

This latest edition to the Hyundai range is an easy choice for drivers with an appetite for comfort, cutting-edge design and generous seating and leg room. Available in 7- or 8-seater configurations, you will be treated to an aesthetic black chrome radiator grille, full leather interior, and a heated multi-functioning steering wheel.

The facelifted Hyundai Palisade incorporates minor cosmetic updates that make the SUV appear more hunkered-down, with a lower stance. The grille finish has changed from chrome, while the teardrop LED running light clusters have moved to the outsides of the bumper. The revised side profile is distinguished by new 20-inch alloy wheels, while the rear remains virtually unchanged, save for the new positioning of the lower taillamps that are now integrated into the width of the rear bumper. Incidentally, the facelifted Palisade is also 15 mm longer than its predecessor.

Embrace peace of mind with advanced safety features like the 360 -degree surround view monitor, lane keep and follow assist, and the revolutionary Hyundai Smart Sense safety package. The next-gen family carrier also offers smart adaptive cruise control

The only engine in the line-up is the 142 kW/440 Nm 2.2-litre 4-cylinder turbodiesel.  In overseas markets, the Palisade comes with a 3.8-litre petrol V6, which would probably drink you out of house and home, but that motor delivers more of the performance you need for an SUV of this size. The turbodiesel propels the hefty Palisade and its 8-speed automatic transmission shifts near-seamlessly in the background. The Hyundai’s powertrain enables the premium SUV to maintain the national speed limit with ease.

The larger (12-inch) infotainment touchscreen is much more up-to-date than the pre-facelift model’s 8-inch unit and incorporates a few more modern features that make the Palisade’s user experience feel more upmarket. There’s a speaker feature that enables you to talk to the rear passengers via the audio system’s speakers (rather than shouting from the front). It also has a quiet mode that allows you to turn off the rear speakers (if, for example, the tots are asleep), while keeping the front speakers active. As for its connectivity, Android Auto/Apple Carplay connectivity is available wirelessly, while the wireless phone charger has been upgraded from a 5W- to a 15W unit.

Some new safety features on the 2023 Palisade scored 5 stars in the Australian standard crash test programme (ANCAP), which tests right-hand-drive cars. The model is now specced with forward-collision avoidance, lane-keep assist, blind-spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control and safe exiting (an alert goes off if you attempt to open the doors while traffic is closing in on the vehicle).

As for the seat layout, the Captain’s seating setup (on the 7-seater version) provides an upmarket feel with 2 individual 2nd-row seats and a runway between them to ease access to the rearmost row. All seats can be folded flat individually, so it offers a highly adaptable and, therefore, practical cabin layout.

Fit-and-finish seems very good, the cabin ergonomics are great and the sound insulation from outside elements is very good, even on dirt roads.

The Palisade’s driving experience is admirable; it rides particularly well for something that sits on 20-inch wheels.

The Palisade is notably quiet inside and its suspension feels well-damped over gravel and washboard dirt roads. The Palisade’s “gravel travel” ability, is more of a soft-roader than a “gravel-traveller.”

The All-wheel drive is standard, but the Palisade’s an SUV-styled people mover, so there’s no low range and the ground clearance is average (203 mm). A typical Palisade buyer is unlikely to venture into the wilderness with their vehicle often, but it will easily handle long stints on gravel roads/backtracks.

The updated Hyundai Palisade is sold with a 7-year/200 000 km warranty and a 7-year/105 000 km service plan.

The Palisade R2.2 Elite 7-seater 8AT AWD and the Palisade R2.2 Elite 8-seater AT AWD starts at R1 099 000.