Hyundai Palisade

Among the 150 Hyundai entries in the MotorJury library, the Hyundai Palisade holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2018. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Hyundai Palisade properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Porsche Porsche Taycan, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Hyundai Palisade reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 3.5 L Hyundai Lambda engine#G6DC / Lambda II V6 engine / V6 / 3.8 L Hyundai Lambda engine#G6DN / Lambda II Gasoline direct injection / GDi V6 / Diesel eng; kerb weight is recorded at 1820 -; drive goes through 8-speed A8LF1/A8LF2 automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Hyundai story

Within Hyundai's own catalogue the Hyundai Palisade sits alongside the Hyundai Accent WRC, the Hyundai Accent, the Hyundai Aslan, the Hyundai Atos. The record names the Hyundai Maxcruz/Santa Fe XL as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Kim Jun-Ho, Seo Jin-Hwan and Kim Gil-Ho. Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Ulsan (Hyundai Ulsan Plant / Ulsan Plant 2) / Russia: Kaliningrad (Avtotor) / Vietnam: Ninh Bình (Hyundai Thanh Cong Manufacturing Vietnam / HTMV).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Hyundai Palisade was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.