Fans of vaguely crossover-ish subcompact vehicles from South Korea’s best-known automaker will be happy to learn the little Hyundai Venue is apparently receiving mid-cycle styling tweaks. Popping up on the company’s official website for its market in India and first noted this morning by the sleuths at CarScoops, the next Venue appears to be taking a few cues from its big brother, the Palisade.
These foreign market images show a rig with a chicklet-studded grille which mimics some of the design options found in the nose of Hyundai’s current largest vehicle. The wing-like daytime running lights and turn signals once again sit just south of the hood’s shut line, moving the actual headlights into the bumper’s jowls. It seems the model will retain its unique halo lighting signature around those forward-facing peepers.
Around back, our very own Corey Lewis will be delighted to learn Hyundai has embraced the heckblende lifestyle, with a spear of LED lights now connecting the outboard taillamps. Amber turn signals remain in the lower corners of those lamps, though they do lose the distinctive diagonal details which reminded your author of the late and lamented Nissan Pulsar of the 1980s. Nostalgia is a helluva drug.
A few glimpses of the interior were shown in various videos on the brand’s YouTube channel for the Indian market, revealing a cabin that largely stays the course of the present model. Don’t expect any yoke steering or gesture controls, ok? The existing analog dashboard gauges have gone the way of the dodo bird – at least in this foreign market machine – and have been replaced with a digital cluster.
Engine choices are usually different across the pond, with Hyundai being no exception in this regard. Don’t expect to find their 1.5L diesel (manual only, by the way) in our market, nor should we really hold our breath for the 1.0L turbocharged gasser making 120 horsepower, despite its output being roughly like the engine found in North American Venue models. Around these parts, the car is powered by a 1.6L mill good for 121 horses and 113 lb.-ft of torque.
With a total sales so far this year of 10,663 units, the little Venue isn’t exactly America’s favorite Hyundai. That honor predictably goes to the Tucson, a model which has found 68,423 new owners this year, followed by the Santa Fe with 47,204 sales through to the end of May 2022.
[Images: Hyundai]
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Well it’s a lot less ugly than the current one. Hopefully they fired the designer of the vase-shaped grill. I wonder what the “Lit life” is.
For some reason, the current grill screams `Studebaker` to me.
OT
just when you thought he could not get worse, over the weekend dementia joe raised the amount of mandated ethanol in gas by 50%
Dementia Joe is awful. He’s been worse in a year and a half than Obama and Carter combined in 12 years. Worse than both Bushes combined, who got us into three wars and 41 was the first person I heard use the phrase “New World Order.” Worse than Clinton, who got us into bed with the ChiComs (https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/09/world/a-very-charming-guest-too-bad-about-the-lincoln-bedroom-thing.html).
Back on topic: didn’t the Venue have an available manual trans when it first hit the market? I guess I’m still limited to 1st-gen RAV4s and 1st-gen VUEs with 200k miles if I want a small SUV with a manual.
Oh sure, what’s a little more topsoil loss and fertilizer runoff, if it makes you feel like you “did something”?
When do we get the 1.0 liter turbo I-3 that the rest of the world gets?
Hopefully never.
Current instrument cluster is very good. New instrument cluster is garbage.
If we’re at 3/4 tank*, why is the remaining range down to only 154 miles?
[* +/- 1/4 tank! Like my low-rent high school, I’d like to see ‘more graduations’ on that display. ‘Granularity’ for you business types.]
(Dear Hyundai, It takes me 100 miles just to get settled into my not-so-comfortable driver’s seat on a road trip. You really want me to stop for fuel every 200 miles?)
I think they forgot to finish their image, that awning is floating mid-air.
Product placement for Sunsetter awnings?
Do they intentionally make all Hyudais to look that ugly to be able to sell them in America?