This is Hyundai's fifth Sonata and the UK's fourth - not that you would have noticed. The petrol-only, saloon-only exec has always been designed primarily for Korean and American buyers, who value petrol saloons far more than we do. Hyundai themselves publicly admit the new one isn't going to set the European and UK sales charts alight. Click to read the road test...
Sonata is largest car in the upper medium class.