Start with what the Hyundai Kona is: a 5-door SUV with Petrol engine, built from 2017, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Kim Sung-No.
How it came about
The Hyundai Kona (Korean: 현대 코나) is a subcompact crossover SUV produced by the South Korean manufacturer Hyundai. The first-generation Kona debuted in June 2017 and the production version was revealed later that year. The current, second-generation model was revealed in December 2022 and launched in 2023.
It was developed first as a battery-electric model before being adapted for petrol and hybrid variants, which are offered depending on the market. Depending on the market, the Kona is positioned above either the Venue or the Bayon and below the Tucson in Hyundai's crossover SUV line-up. The battery-electric version, called the Kona Electric or Kona EV, was first launched in South Korea during the first half of 2018 and was rolled out gradually worldwide afterwards.
The hardware
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. Drive goes through a ubl | 6-speed manual | 6-speed A6F22 automatic | 6-speed D6KF1 DCT (hybrid) | 7-speed D7UF1 DCT | 8-speed D8LF1 DCT | CVT | Single. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Hyundai line-up the Hyundai Kona has a clear place: the factory was ubl. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Bolt, the Ford Escort. Its Hyundai stablemates include the Hyundai Accent WRC and the Hyundai Accent.
Owning one today
Buying one now means $13,500–$36,000 for a typical example, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $2,897–$4,809 a year. Insurance sits around $1,280–$2,250 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.