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Animation Suggests 2020 Hyundai Palisade Features Longitudinal V8 Engine

For the 2020 model year, Hyundai is extending the utility vehicle portfolio with the Palisade. The three-row, eight-seat crossover serves as the larger sibling of the Santa Fe XL, which starts in the United States from $28,850. The seating layout puts the Palisade in the same segment as the Honda Pilot, which retails at $31,450 for the front-wheel-drive LX with the 280-horsepower V6.
2020 Hyundai Palisade cold-weather testing and animation 20 photos
Photo: screenshot from YouTube
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Because the debut is getting closer, Hyundai decided to showcase how the Palisade tackles the snow course at the cold-weather testing site in Arjeplog, Sweden. When equipped with all-wheel drive and winter tires, the mid-size crossover doesn’t even break a sweat on this type of terrain and weather.

The secret to this capability is a feature called Snow Mode, which “adjusts the distribution of power on individual wheels through an organic control of the engine, transmission, AWD, and braking system.” The Palisade monitors the rotational speed of the wheels every 0.02 seconds, and when slip is detected, Snow Mode redistributes the torque of the wheel spinning in the air to the wheels with more traction.

As you can see in the following video, “Snow Mode determines and controls the most optimal torque to send from the front to the rear wheels.” In other words, the vehicle architecture for the Palisade is front-wheel drive by design. The drivetrain animation also reveals an eight-cylinder engine mounted longitudinally, which is an error from the animator’s part.

In all likelihood, the platform is nothing more than a stretched Santa Fe XL. The same applies to the 2020 Kia Telluride, which will be manufactured in the United States and arrive in showrooms in early 2019. According to Kia, the Telluride will feature a “V6-powered option.”

Both Kia and Hyundai use the 3.3- and 3.8-liter engines from the Lambda II family, and both are alright for this type of vehicle. Volkswagen, on the other hand, is trying to convince us the Atlas is a-OK with the 2.0-liter TSI four-cylinder turbo.

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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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