Used 2022 Hyundai Kona Consumer Reviews
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Great car!!
CHAUNCEY BECKLES, 11/26/2021
updated 06/06/2022
2022 Hyundai Kona SEL 4dr SUV (2.0L 4cyl CVT)
6 of 10 people found this review helpful
Fun to drive. Handles good, great acceleration. Excellent safety features.
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2022 Kona Limited is disappointing
AE87, 10/24/2021
updated 05/03/2023
2022 Hyundai Kona Limited 4dr SUV AWD (1.6L 4cyl Turbo 7AM)
32 of 61 people found this review helpful
LED headlights are ridiculously bright. They are supposed to adjust when light sensor detects oncoming headlights (in "auto" mode), but they do not. Headlights are too level, they do not point down at road. Delivery of power at low end of spectrum is not as smooth as one would expect. Feels more like a 135-bhp engine rather than 195-bhp at lower speed. Engine feels a little rough, a little loud. While stopped at red lights engine automatically restarts when foot is taken off brake. Presumably, this is to save gas. Engine restarts, and transmission re-engages. However, this does not always happen predictably. Prospective buyers should apprise themselves of "7-speed manual transmission with dual-clutch" before buying. Dashboard display (ie speedometer, tachometer, gas gauge, etc) are led. There is an annoying tendency for the display to blink between brighter and dimmer when the light sensor detects changes, such as on a cloudy day. This is very distracting. There is no way to shut it off. Also, at night the dash display cannot be made fully dark. (Although the flatscreen "infotainment" screen can be fully darkened). The car has many good qualities. Some aspects are over-engineered, and do not work well. I made a mistake when buying this car. It is a good car for the person who thinks they want everything done automatically, or those who are consistently unconscious. I was also influenced by reviews that gushed about Kona.
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Great features not a solid car
Brett, 04/04/2023
2022 Hyundai Kona Limited 4dr SUV AWD (1.6L 4cyl Turbo 7AM)
4 of 7 people found this review helpful
We've had The Kona Limited 2022 AWD for around 8 months after trading in our larger SUV. I'm really impressed with the variety of features available on the limited model, especially the safety and tracking features that are helpful when my teenager is driving it. Lane departure, emergency braking, and attention warnings all provide additional peace of mind, and the ability to monitor location and speed via the app is a great feature. However, there are a few downsides to this car. The leather seats are quite fragile and we've already had two holes appear under normal use. Additionally, the car's performance is a bit lackluster despite having a 1.4L turbo engine. It doesn't feel as robust as my VW Jetta, for example.
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Great little car
Rafe Vecere, 09/30/2021
2022 Hyundai Kona N Line 4dr SUV AWD (1.6L 4cyl Turbo 7AM)
4 of 7 people found this review helpful
Overall good car. Excellent safety features. Very happy with purchase.
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The Kona N is an overpriced clown car
Tom who likes sporty cars, 02/16/2022
2022 Hyundai Kona N 4dr SUV (2.0L 4cyl Turbo 8AM)
37 of 83 people found this review helpful
Based on all the reviews I read for the Kona N, and the many videos on the you-know-the-site site, I had high expectations for the Kona N. I was expecting something comparable to the VW Golf GTI in performance, but with a less cramped feeling on the inside. I watched the inventory closely and when one showed up at a local dealership in mid February (2022) I went over the next day and took it for a test drive. My expectations were such that I had already thought through the steps for purchase. It was the white one, and even though I've never much liked white cars, I liked the look of this car a lot. And for me the size was perfect: bigger than the standard hatchback, but not as big as a compact SUV like the Sportage. I knew that the user interface for setting up the custom setting was complicated, so I read up on this beforehand. I wanted to be certain that I had the suspension setting in the softest mode, which is the "normal" mode, because one of my concerns was that the suspension would be too taught. It would be an understatement to say that the Kona N fell short of my expectations. Still, there is a lot to like about it, including, to name just one thing, that large bright LCD display where you see the navigation map. But there were two notable things wrong with the car, that nothing else could possibly make up for. First, the suspension was ridiculously taut. In the past I've driven some cars that were known for having too-stiff suspensions. But the Kona N's suspension was like nothing I've ever experienced before, except possibly for the go-carts I used to race many years ago. The sensation of bouncing was ever-present, except when driving on a perfectly smooth road. With any slight bump or undulation in the road surface, the Kona N felt like it was bouncing. I would swear that if there had been a camera set up to give an image of the contact between the tire under me and the road, there would have been air between the tire and the road a good portion of the time, on a road that I had never previously noticed to have any bumps at all. It was actually very weird. And this was with the suspension set to "normal", the softest setting. I double checked to make certain that the selected driving mode was Custom1, and that the suspension setting for this mode was "normal". I would not enjoy a single trip to the grocery and back in this car, and the idea of having this car for everyday driving is completely out of the question. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy. The other thing that I really, really did not like was that it was not the least bit quick. All of the write-ups say that the 0-60 time is in the low 5-second range, but it sure didn't feel like it to me. To me, it didn't feel like it was accelerating hard enough to do 0-60 in under 7 seconds. I don't know how to explain this, because given the claimed power and the claimed mass, it should have been able to do 0-60 in about 5 seconds. But it absolutely did not. I didn't time it, but I know what acceleration feels like in a car that does 0-60 in under 6 seconds, and this car did not feel anything like that. I did not play with the launch control, because I wasn't interested in that. But I had the engine setting set to sport+, and I had it in manual shift mode, and I watched the tachometer, and the rpm range I was using, from about 2500 rpm to about 5000 rpm, this car simply was not quick. In fact, I would call it slow. I was so surprised by this that I made several attempts to see how quickly it would accelerate, pulling away from stop lights and driving on one particular road where there is no traffic so that I could do a couple of runs to see how hard it would accelerate. The weird thing about it was that in spite of the acceleration being a total disappointment, and in spite of there being a limited slip differential, the front wheels spun and hopped a little bit, not a lot, but a little bit about maybe half a second, each time I tried to get it to accelerate hard. This is something that I would have expected if it had accelerated as hard as I expected it to accelerate. But given that the acceleration was decidedly poor, there shouldn't have been any front wheel spin at all. The limited slip different won't intervene when both tires are losing traction in straight-line acceleration, so this didn't have anything to do with the function of the LSD. What it had mainly to do with was the stiff suspension. Under acceleration the weight of the vehicle shifts to the rear. The front end literally becomes lighter, and because it is lighter, the spring pushes the front of the chassis higher. If the front suspension stiffness is properly matched to the vehicle, the suspension will insure (mostly) that the wheels will remain in contact with the road even as the front end gets light. But this isn't what happened, and I had to think for little bit about the physics and the suspension before it dawned on me what was happening. I realized that there is only one way to explain this. When the front wheels encounter a mild bump in the road, rather than the suspension absorb the bump, the wheels and the chassis get pitched up together, and as soon as the mild bump in the road is history, there is no longer sufficient contact force between the tire and the road surface. The road I was on was a very good road, very flat and level, with no bumps that I ordinarily notice, and with a good surface. The suspension on this car is so excessively stiff that front wheels routinely lose traction when trying to accelerate, on any road surface that isn't absolutely perfect. This is a major, major flaw of this car. The suspension is way, way too stiff. And please don't anyone tell me that this is how it should be because it is a "track car". It isn't a "track car", and even if you want to think of that way, the same problem is going to be an even bigger problem on a track than it was for me on a few very good stretches of ordinary road. And it wouldn't make sense to call it a track car, because it isn't anywhere near as quick as people are claiming that it is. The Kona N is a clown car. It isn't anywhere near as quick as it should be, and the suspension is so ridiculously stiff that it ruins any potential for performance by allowing the front wheels to spin at the drop of a hat on any road that isn't absolutely perfect. I don't understand how a manufacturer could release a car like this, although, we are talking about Hyundai. They decided to make an "N" version of the Kona, like they did with the Veloster. They rushed into it and they screwed it up. It is a good-looking subcompact SUV with a lot of things going for it but ruined by some problem with engine performance and by a suspension that is way, way, way stiffer than it should be. Maybe in another year or two they'll figure out what is wrong with the engine and will change the suspension. I won't hold my breath.
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