Textual content by Tom Appel
2025 Hyundai Palisade Calligraphy AWD
Specs
Class: Midsize Crossover
Nation of Manufacture: South Korea
Coloration: Hyper White
Seating Capability: 6
Miles pushed: 188
Actual-world gasoline economic system: 19.9 mpg
| CG Report Card | |
|---|---|
| Room and Consolation | A |
| Energy and Efficiency | B |
| Match and End | A |
| Gasoline Economic system | B- |
| Worth | A- |
| Report-card grades are derived from a consensus of test-driver evaluations. All grades are versus different automobiles in the identical class. Worth grade is for particular trim stage evaluated, and will not replicate Client Information’s impressions of all the mannequin lineup. | |
| Huge & Tall Consolation | |
| Huge Man | A |
| Tall Man | A |
| Huge & Tall consolation rankings are for entrance seats solely. “Huge” score primarily based on male tester weighing roughly 350 kilos, “Tall” score primarily based on 6’6″-tall male tester. | |
| Drivetrain | |
| Engine Specs | 291-horsepower 3.8-liter |
| Engine Kind | V6 |
| Transmission | 8-speed computerized |
| Drive Wheels | AWD |
Driving combine: 65% metropolis, 35% freeway
EPA-estimated gasoline economic system: 19/24/21 (metropolis, freeway, mixed)
Gasoline sort: Common fuel
Base value: $52,600 (not together with $1415 vacation spot cost)
Choices on take a look at automobile: Particular paint ($470), flooring mats ($215)
Worth as examined: $54,700
Execs and Cons
The nice: Luxurious for the worth, refined demeanor
The nice: Ample passenger and cargo area, loads of energy
The not so good: Gasoline economic system trails competitors
Overview
Take a deep breath, and benefit from the pause. Turns on the market’s not a lot new for 2025, not less than so far as the favored Hyundai Palisade is anxious. The Korean maker’s largest crossover returns for ’25 that includes just a few tweaks, and a brand new ‘tweener” midline trim stage aimed on the coronary heart of the midsize crossover market.
The large Palisade information comes for 2026. We’ll get to that in a second…
For 2024, the midsize crossover race completed on this order:
Jeep Grand Cherokee (216,000 items)
Ford Expedition (194,000)
Honda Pilot (141,000)
Hyundai Santa Fe (119,000)
Kia Telluride (115,000)
Hyundai Palisade (110,000)
In the event you mix Toyota Highlander (89,685) and Grand Highlander gross sales, the online quantity would place these automobiles second on this listing (161,000).
In the event you take away the Grand Cherokee from this listing—provided that it’s priced as a premium automobile—you find yourself with a tightly grouped pack of fantastic automobiles, all of which advantage shopper consideration. And despite the fact that the Palisade is due for replace within the close to future, we expect the current-generation crossover is properly value a glance.
For 2025, the Palisade is obtainable in seven trim ranges, they’re: base SE ($38,215), value-oriented SEL ($40,965), off-road oriented XRT ($44,065), upscale Restricted ($49,615), premium Calligraphy ($52,015), and range-topping Calligraphy Evening Version ($55,515).
Added this yr is the SEL Premium ($45,565), which slots properly between the XRT and Restricted, and can possible show to be a well-liked Palisade variant.
All Palisades include the identical 291-horsepower 3.8-liter V8 mated to an 8-speed computerized transmission. All trim ranges include front-wheel drive, and can be found with AWD, save for the Evening Version on which AWD is commonplace.
Be aware: Although uniquely styled, tuned, and priced, the Kia Telluride shares the Palisade’s primary structure and drivetrain. You may learn our most-recent assessment of the Telluride right here.
Client Information not too long ago spent per week behind the wheel of an AWD 2025 Palisade in Hyper White. With vacation spot cost, our take a look at truck got here to $54,700.
Because the Palisade got here onto the scene again in 2020 with its luxury-level cabin appointments, the makers of aggressive midsize crossovers have stepped up their inside design efforts. Try the within of the 2025 Ford Explorer ST we simply reviewed.
And whereas the Palisade cabin is now not startlingly plush, it’s nonetheless terribly plush, and wouldn’t disappoint in a automobile itemizing $30,000 greater. We discovered the contrasting black upholstery stitching particularly elegant.
In now-typical Korean vogue, the controls work properly and fall readily handy. Each Palisade comes with a 12.3-inch touchscreen—as a result of the precise dimension apparently issues—that’s properly positioned on the sprint. Touchscreen icons are simple to establish at a look, and the system responds instantly to the touch inputs. Local weather and drive-mode features are nonetheless manipulated by way of bodily switchgear situated just under the display screen. All advised, we discovered the final management format easy and straightforward to make use of.
The cabin itself is vivid, ethereal, and roomy, and the sense of area is enhanced considerably by our test-car’s Gentle Beige trim scheme. This huge editor discovered coming into and exiting the Palisade simple sufficient, thanks partially to giant door openings. There’s additionally loads of grownup area within the first two seating rows.
Third-row lodging method the extent of grownup pleasant, although the way-back seats are greatest left to the most-nimble of your touring get together.
Underway the Palisade shines dynamically, and when it comes to refinement. The large V6 serves up a lot of simple torque, making for relaxed cease and go driving. There’s additionally loads of energy for passing and merging. The engine additionally sounds refined in operation, and mutes virtually fully in freeway driving. The Palisade powertrain isn’t particularly thrifty, although our noticed 20 mpg is in line with the crossover’s EPA estimates.
Trip high quality is superb, and in line with the Calligraphy’s luxurious pretense, our take a look at truck proved each exceptionally quiet and composed on longer freeway jaunts. It’s maybe the Palisade’s freeway demeanor that greatest defines it as an upscale crossover.
We don’t usually touch upon construct high quality, as so few take a look at automobiles have disillusioned us in latest reminiscence. Nevertheless, we have to level out how even and lustrous our take a look at automotive’s paint was. Whereas we undergo from white-car fatigue, the Palisade’s cooly iridescent paint introduced properly.
As we famous above, the Palisade can be redesigned for the 2026 mannequin yr, and is anticipated to develop barely in most dimensions. We additionally count on the sleek V6 to get replaced by an ordinary turbocharged 4-cylinder engine. Additionally supplied can be hybrid variant that includes a drivetrain much like the hybrid setup discovered within the present Kia Carnival. Count on vital styling updates each inside and out of doors of the automobile, as properly.
We’re huge followers of the Palisade, and it’s Kia cousin the Telluride. The Palisade—in higher trim ranges—serves up a genuinely premium expertise for what stay midsize costs. Be aware that, because the Hyundai Santa Fe noticed vital value will increase when not too long ago redesigned, we count on the brand new Palisade to be likewise “worth adjusted.” In the event you’re buying now, we advise including the 2025 Palisade to your test-drive quick listing. It’s unlikely the Palisade will ever this sturdy of a worth once more.
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