Hyundai’s New Tucson Seems Mainly The Identical Exterior, However Brings Buttons Again Inside

Hyundai Europe launched photographs of the facelifted 2025 Tucson as we speak, with slight exterior tweaks and a brand new inside to carry its compact crossover into step with the remainder of Hyundai’s newest fashions. No specs had been launched, solely the primary photographs and some different particulars.

The massive updates present within the inside the place Hyundai ditched the primarily touch-sensitive ‘buttons’ in favor of its new company structure which options – drumroll please – bodily quantity and tuning knobs and actual buttons for the local weather controls and different capabilities. The outdated mannequin’s separate gauge cluster and central shows are changed by a single sweeping show atop the sprint that mixes the digital gauge show and infotainment display screen.

The pictures additionally present that Hyundai will ditch the automated transmission’s push-button operation in favor of a Bop-It–fashion shifter mounted on the steering column, like that of the newly redesigned Kona. It would additionally obtain Hyundai’s three-spoke steering wheel which drops the model’s H emblem and swaps it for the four-dot, Morse Code H, which is surprisingly profitable at modernizing the general inside vibe.

The fourth-generation Tucson was launched in 2020 and debuted some fairly radical exterior styling particulars like lights built-in into the grille and sharply creased bodywork to assist it stand out from the remainder of the CUVs within the Dwelling Items parking zone. This facelifted mannequin showcases some fairly minor exterior tweaks that capitalize on the Tucson’s good-looking options, sort of prefer it obtained just a few items of filler to boost its jaw and fill its under-eye baggage that shaped over the 5 years since this technology’s debut.

The place the present mannequin has 10 lighting parts within the DRL clusters, the facelift drops that quantity right down to eight, alongside another tweaks to barely streamline the entrance styling. The entrance grille and bumper have chunkier designs, and the wheels are new as effectively. There aren’t any direct photographs of the rear, however from the aspect view it appears just about unchanged from the present mannequin.

The fourth-generation Tucson has at all times been a fairly agreeable crossover, and this reimagined 2025 mannequin must be much more agreeable due to Hyundai’s styling tweaks and the choice to return to bodily buttons. We are going to hold you up to date with U.S. market bulletins and powertrain specifics once they come. The refreshed mannequin is slated to go on sale in Europe early subsequent 12 months, with no details about the U.S. launch talked about at current.