The 2025 Hyundai Tucson greeted the world at this 12 months’s New York Auto Present with a mid-cycle refresh for Hyundai’s in style two-row crossover. The outside and powertrain alterations crammed within the typical blanks. Exterior, there is a new grille, contemporary bumpers, a brand new daytime operating mild look with bigger lighting models, in addition to reworked wheel designs, and a brand new anodized look to the badging spherical out the adjustments. The only purposeful upgrades are a bigger wiper blade for the rear window, and on the extra rugged-looking XRT, new raised roof rails for better functionality.
Powertrains largely keep the identical. The bottom engine within the SE, SEL, XRT, and Restricted continues to be the two.5-liter four-cylinder making 187 horsepower and 178 pound-feet of torque. The Blue Hybrid, SEL Comfort Hybrid, N Line Hybrid, and Restricted Hybrid make a contact extra energy due to a juicier electrical motor that features 5 horses, giving a complete system output of 231 hp and 258 lb-ft. Probably the most potent SEL and Restricted plug-in hybrid makes 268 hp and 258 lb-ft. Drivers with twitchy proper ft can easy out supply with a brand new “Child Mode” that Hyundai says “helps scale back the sharpness of preliminary acceleration, smoothing out driver inputs for a gentler acceleration feeling for passengers.”
The most important adjustments are inside, beginning with a brand new instrument panel exhibiting off a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster and a brand new 12.3-inch touchscreen infotainment system. Upgraded chips and software program ship sooner processing speeds, extra vibrant colours, and sharper graphics. All trims function wi-fi Apple CarPlay/Android Auto now, too. Under the infotainment display, a redesigned heart stack replaces the Tucson’s haptic controls with knobs and switches. There’s additionally a brand new tray positioned simply above the glovebox for storing small gadgets.
Larger trims may even get a brand new column-mounted gear selector we’ve seen carried out in different Hyundai merchandise for extra heart console house. A brand new wi-fi cellphone charger is alleged to supply improved efficiency, and the USB-C ports provide sooner charging speeds. Restricted fashions add acoustic glass within the entrance home windows for a quieter cabin expertise. A bigger 12-inch coloration HUD will likely be out there, and a brand new biometric authenticator can be utilized to begin the automobile up with no key fob. Hyundai’s Digital Key 2 tech can also be current, which permits for locking, unlocking and engine begin by way of your cellphone’s presence – it additionally permits you to simply share momentary entry to the automobile from one cellphone to a different.
So far as driver help methods go, the 2025 Tucson provides Ahead Consideration Warning, which is actually a driver monitor that makes use of an infrared digicam to trace the motive force’s consideration ranges.
MSRPs are virtually totally up, the XRT getting a $1,640 value lower for causes that are not clear. The remainder of the vary climbs from $440 to $1,660, and observe that $20 of that comes from a vacation spot cost that is $20 greater at $1,395. Costs for the 2025 Tucson after vacation spot, and the variations from 2024, are:
SE: $29,750 ($875)
SEL: $31,610 ($585)
XRT: $34,060 ($1,640 much less)
Restricted: $39,690 ($1,555)
These costs pay for front-wheel drive. Sending energy to the rear axle prices $1,500. The Tucson Hybrid and Tucson PHEV solely include AWD. Hybrid MSRPs are:
Blue Hybrid: $34,510 ($560)
SEL Comfort Hybrid: $37,510 ($980)
N Line Hybrid: $39,260 ($1,230)
Restricted Hybrid: $42,340 ($440)
And the PHEV:
SEL PHEV: $40,775 ($675)
Restricted PHEV: $48,485 ($1,660)
The non-hybrid fashions are due at dealerships this month, the Hybrid and PHEV arriving in late summer time.