Hyundai Bayon electrified crossover priced from £20,295

gavsmit    on 6 March 2021

Another new model loaded with too much "Tech" which few people want or need. It only serves to keep prices and repair costs artificially high.

I agree completely.

Car makers have been dramatically increasing their prices of ICE cars regularly for a while now, hiding those increases behind quoted monthly finance prices, to close the price gap with EVs so the predicted price drop of EVs as they become more popular will never happen.

Then they make out that we all need pointless tech to justify further price hikes when the tech itself is just some cheap electronics shipped in from China.

The 'mild hybrid' nonsense is just another one of the cons used to increase list prices hugely. Suzuki did it on the Swift and Vitara and it added about an extra three grand to each model. Despite having no real-world benefits to the customer, it's just something else to justify them charging more for servicing and will go expensively wrong after the warranty expires - economy is not much different (and will never offset the higher list price) whilst performance, handling and boot space are all compromised.

In fact, as a life long car enthusiast, I now just look at car makers in a very cynical way and feel no excitement for future model launches as I resent having to pay so much for something that isn't want I need or want.

PetrolFan    on 6 March 2021

The car companies are using customers to fund the development and manufacture of expensive electric cars, in all their forms.
Are they saying that they are "green"?
Other car companies have taken over from Hyundai and KIA and have gone way ahead of them.

hissingsid    on 7 March 2021

Hyundai and KIA made their reputation by producing no nonsense reliable reasonably priced cars, but now they are following the herd into expensive and unnecessary over reliance on electronic gadgetry.

Dacia have taken over where Hyundai and KIA left off, and their continuing sales success speaks for itself.

grumpy1    on 8 March 2021

I could not agree more with the opponents of increasing tech. I am especially enraged by "Infotainment" which as well as being the ugliest b******ised word ever to be introduced to the English language forces drivers to take their eyes off the road to operate them. I am amazed that we have fallen for the dreadful things.

Increasingly cars seem to be sold on the basis of how many distracting toys can be packed into them rather than the merits of simplicity, performance and safety. There are so many vehicles today that it is essential for all of us to keep our eyes on the road and our wits about us rather than treat our cars as entertaining playthings.

Then there is the matter of the added expense of these needless gadgets.

Steve de Looze    on 8 March 2021

Looks as if they nicked a lot of styling cues from the Land Rover Evoque.

hissingsid    on 9 March 2021

Operating a touchscreen menu whilst driving is every bit as dangerous as using a mobile phone. Using a phone is illegal and rightly so, yet it is now almost impossible to buy a new car without a touchscreen. Double standards or what?

Brian rowe    on 13 March 2021

Hissing Sid, how right you are ,I'm looking at the Dacia models because Skoda have loss me ,and so many others, on the dieselgate saga and unreliable vehicles. Toyota are in the equation.

flumff    on 4 June 2021

Its been going downhill since they took the starting handle away!

conman    on 5 June 2021

My last two cars have been Dacia's and so would have been my next until the NEW model arrived and like Skoda the prices are rising the problem with Dacia is their policy 'the price you see is the price you pay'. The problem with that is that many other manufacturers are reducing and discounting their prices. So much so that I have just ordered a brand new Seat Leon SE Dynamic for just over £2000 the list price of the Dacia. The offers are out there you just have to look.