Hyundai Azera
Nameplate overview. Specifications and evidence are scoped to individual model years and configurations.
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3 model years with exact configuration records. Latest available year: 2017, with 2 listed configurations.
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General nameplate overview
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The Hyundai Azera is the full-size, front-wheel-drive sedan that sat at the top of Hyundai's own-brand American range for most of its life. Sold in the United States from the 2006 model year as the replacement for the XG350, it is known almost everywhere else as the Hyundai Grandeur — a nameplate that dates back to a rebadged Mitsubishi Debonair in 1986. In the U.S. it slotted above the mid-size Sonata and below the rear-drive Genesis sedan, chasing the Toyota Avalon, Buick LaCrosse, Chevrolet Impala, Nissan Maxima and its corporate cousin the Kia Cadenza.
Two generations reached American showrooms. The fourth-generation TG car (2006–2011) offered 3.3- and 3.8-liter Lambda V6s with five- and six-speed automatics. The fifth-generation HG car, sold here for the 2012–2017 model years, moved to the longer Y6 platform shared with the Sonata and Kia Cadenza and simplified the range to a single 293-hp 3.3-liter Lambda II GDI V6 with a six-speed SHIFTRONIC automatic. A mid-cycle facelift arrived for 2015 with a new grille, revised bumpers, standard 18-inch wheels, an eight-inch touchscreen and standard blind-spot detection. Hyundai never brought the sixth-generation IG Grandeur to North America — after the 2017 model year the Azera left the U.S. lineup, and with the Genesis sedan and Equus moving to the new Genesis brand, the Sonata became Hyundai's largest American car.
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