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Yet Another Story of A Freeway Cruiser

A story about 2011 Hyundai Equus, hit over 2,000 miles tour to Outer Banks of North Carolina, achieved with admirable ease just as expected from a premium sedan. Yet forced to be a ridiculously surfboard transport on its long way. Just like another telly-tales, Chris Paukert and Steven J. Ewing from autoblog·com, told their 2011 Hyundai Equus trip this August 2011 in a very exciting way. There're also a huge gallery of 60 highres photos, so read on.

The Attention This 2011 Hyundai Equus Got

The attention to this 2011 Hyundai Equus was surprising. And yes, it's innocuous kind of attentions. First encounter at the 1st rest stop, asked by couple of pretty ladies,

“What is it?!” they gushed.
“Believe it or not, it’s a Hyundai,” we answered.
Puzzled looks.
“Wait… really? Well… it’s still really nice, though!”

We laughed a little inside and moved on, but their reaction was telling – “It’s still really nice, though!” is both a credit to what a pleasant surprise the Equus is for Hyundai, as well as a subtly backhanded ding at the company’s “off the radar” standing among many consumers.

The same rest area yielded a discussion with a very enthusiastic Genesis sedan owner, and subsequent conversations were held at stoplights with frantic arm-waving Toyota Avalon drivers and more random people in parking lots, including a BMW E60 5 Series owner fed up with his ownership experience.

While we're all need to admit that Equus – design–wise – is quite a bit of a knockoff, those discussions among general buying public pointed out otherwise, or should we say, don't really care that much.

Notes On the Adjustable Lumbar Support

It's worth mentioning that the adjustable lumbar support somehow couldn't be settled and kept on this over inflated fashion. And yes, the air bladder controls just won't help that much. Chris Paukert described:

it just feels too prominent on our lower backs. It’s so uncomfortable that it’s led to both your author and Editor-In-Chief Neff to ponder drastic, pin-shaped countermeasures. We wouldn’t, of course, but it’s still bothersome.

The suggested and most practical tweak to guarantee some long miles coziness appears to be extending the bottom cushion a quite longer than it commonly be, to minimized the stress and make it less severe.

Pros And Cons Notes

The interior, loads of amenities as well as creature coziness. The controls, design aesthetic and finishes missing a bit the exact quality of refinement touches as competitors.
Hit the bar at feeling like a great value. Yet still lack of great full-size luxury sedan feels.

Some which might cause that would be the interior, and its 4.6–liter Tau V8. Well, we can't really ask more with 385HP plus 333 pound-feet of torque, but hey, it is Korean real estate we're speaking at, so acceptable is the word. But no worries though, this one is definitely not slow either as the test reported by other media revealed a 0-60 times in the mid-to-high six-second range, while there's a note on the ECU and transmission tuning. They both makes highway passing along with its off-the-line acceleration give a more relaxed feels than it should be looked for.

Chris Paukert added:

Despite sustained higher speeds, traversing Pennsylvania’s Alleghany mountains, negotiating a dead-stop traffic jam and a lot of pottering along in beach traffic, we averaged a solid 21 miles per gallon, smack in the middle of the 18/22 city/highway mix the EPA predicts. During that stint, we saw sustained freeway running with indicated mpgs in the mid-to-upper 20s without even trying, suggesting that it’s likely quite easy to beat the Equus’ official fuel economy estimates if you take it easier than we did.

Steven J. Ewing explained more on servicing:

Unlike our first encounter with the Equus At Your Service valet program, our most recent experience went off without any issue. We made the appointment with the Equus Apple iPad app, received a confirmation call and e-mail from the selected dealer (Glassman Hyundai in Southfield, Michigan), followed by another call the day before the service to confirm the time and what our loaner vehicle would be. The day of our service, the dealership kindly called to say that a representative was on the way, and about 15 minutes later, a service technician arrived and handed over the keys to a clean, detailed 2011 Hyundai Genesis sedan. A few hours later, the dealer called again, saying our car was ready, and that the vehicles would be swapped once more. Before returning the Equus to us, Glassman washed and vacuumed it. If this is the sort of service we (and other Equus buyers) can routinely expect, it goes a long way in bettering the overall ownership experience.

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