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Next Hyundai Sonata to Gain Evolutionary Styling

Set to arrive in 2014, the next-generation Hyundai Sonata will feature a evolutionary design and won’t be too different than the current model, the South Korean automaker revealed.
2013 Hyundai Sonata 1 photo
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Speaking to WardsAuto, Hyundai US CEO John Krafcik said the company is looking to refine the current styling for the seventh-generation Sonata rather than design a totally different shaped body.

“I think we found a design language that works, the ‘fluidic sculpture’ stuff, so I would say is not pulling back in any way. It’s more continuing to refine on that same trajectory we’re on,” Krafcik said. “If you look at the prior-generation Sonata, had nothing in common. This car, you’ll look at and say, ‘Oh yeah, that’s a Sonata. I get it. That’s cool.’”

Hyundai sold a record 230,605 Sonata sedans in the US last year, in a segment disputed with the Toyota Camry, Honda Accord and Ford Fusion.

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