When Garmin and TomTom navigation devices cost $199, why should in-dash navigation cost $1,500? Good question. Hyundai has supplied the only correct answer for 2012: It shouldn’t. Navigation is built into the price of the just-announced Hyundai Azera full-size sedan. Virtually all the cockpit tech you’d want is part of the base price: navigation, BlueLink telematics and Mayday assist, voice input, Bluetooth, USB jack, satellite and HD Radio, backup camera, and keyless entry. The only miss on the stardard-tech list is parking sonar. It’s part of the one Azera option, the technology package. The Azera costs $32,000 and that makes it the most tech-rich full-size sedan you can buy for that kind of money. https://gymnin.netlify.app/bmw-id6-light-download.html. Not many other cars south of the $50,000 price point have both front and rear heated seats, standard, either.

The navigation system runs off an SD card. Hyundai follows Ford and GM in turning to an SD card rather than DVD- or hard-drive-based nav systems to keep costs down. Both Ford and GM charge $795 for theirs. Ford’s is competent, GM’s gets you there but sometimes via circuitous routes. Hyundai declined to say how much of the base price is allocated to the the nav system. We’d estimate it’s $500 or less. Hyundai USA CEO John Krafcik said 40% of buyers of full-size cars have navigation now and 70% want it in their next car, so it was a no-brainer to roll navigation in to the 2012 Azera. When that happens, increased volume drives the cost down. If integrated navigation costs a bit more than even the best portable navigation device, so what: the Hyundai screen is 7-inch where most personal navigation devices (PNDs) are 4- or 5-inch, it’s not going to get stolen or left in the house, and it doesn’t bounce and rattle on its suction-cupped dashboard mount.

HYUNDAI MNSOFT provides newest map updates on regular basis once a year. Customers can order their updates using our secure web site directly or by ordering from our customer service representative over the phone. 2012 Hyundai Azera Map Update-131U03. V13.0 North America Map Update for Azera - 131U03. 16G USB is required. Price: $175.00. To download the software, you must be logged in to your MyHyundai account. If you are eligible, you will find a link to a download on the right side of the Multimedia and Navigation page. To begin using Android Auto, you will need an Android phone with version 5.0 or higher the Android Auto App downloaded from the Play Store and a data plan.

Hyundai also is a leader in inventory paranoia: the fear that the car the customer wants isn’t in stock because some option isn’t on any of the available cars. (Hyundai discourages special-order cars.) Instead, it keeps the options list low. For the Azera, you get two car choices: with or without the $4,000 tech package, times eight paint colors, times three upholstery colors. That’s it. The technology package is really the tech-plus-more-speakers-plus-other-stuff package: xenon headlamps and rear sonar on the tech side; Infinity 12-speaker Logic 7 audio system on the sound side; and a sunroof, ventilated front seats, side and rear sunshades, tilt/telescope steering wheel, and 19- not 18-inch alloy wheels on the comfort/appearance side.

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Hyundai has all the safety features expected: a zillion airbags (nine, actually), stability control, emergency brake force distribution, and so on. A tech trifecta of Vehicle Stability Management (VSM), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), and Motor-Driven electric Power Steering (MDPS) combine to steer you out of a skid. Most cars stablize a skid with the stability control systems, while Hyundai recalls your direction before the start of a skid and applies a slight steering correction back in the proper direction. Rather than active headrests that pop up farther in an accident, Hyundai engineers designed an impact reducing seat back that cushions and stabilizes the occupant; they calculate it’s 17% safer than the active-headrest seats on the old Azera.

Not as many driver aids as Ford or GM

If the Hyundai Azera has a tech shortcoming, it’s the lack of driver aids such as lane-departure warning and blind spot detection. GM pairs lane departure warning and crash alert as a single $295 option on vehicles such as the Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Terrain. Hyundai appears to be thinking about one or both for a mid-life refresh for the Azera. Ford offers adaptive cruise control (with collision alert) for $1,000. The Azera has one USB jack where Ford has two, and no 120-volt outlet, something that’s nice if you want to use a laptop in the back seat. (Solution: Buy your own adapter for $40 and plug it into one of the two 12-volt outlets). Hyundai took a step backward by not offering Pandora in the new Azera as it did in the sporty Hyundai Veloster last fall.

Hyundai Azera on the road

Here’s what you need to know about the Azera beyond the tech stuff: This is a full-size car, bigger inside than the Toyota Avalon, lots of room in back as well as the front. You get one engine/transmission choice (293-hp V6, six-speed automatic, 20 mpg city, 29 mpg highway, 23 mpg combined) and one seating choice (leather). It drives and rides smoothly and quietly but it’s not a sport sedan. The touchscreen navigation and infotainment systems worked well except there’s no easy way to scroll long artists or album lists on an iPhone/iPod, so it helps to set up a couple dozen playlists and work from those. The two big round dials below the LCD display are traditional knobs, not a cockpit controller like BMW’s iDrive. The steering wheel buttons are about average for the industry, meaning too small.

2012 Hyundai Azera Specs

The Azera is the biggest of Hyundai’s four front-drive sedans (Accent, Elanta, Sonata, Azera) and the only one with a V6 engine. It splits the difference on price between the Sonata and the rear-drive Genesis. Azera competitors are the Buick LaCrosse, Ford Taurus, Lexus ES350, Nissan Maxima, and Toyota Avalon. Azera shopping hint: Only two of the eight exterior colors (white, black) can be had with the chestnut brown leather, but it’s the best of the three.

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Is the Azera navigation free? The 2012 Azera runs $32,870 including freight; the comparable 2011 Azera Limited model was $2,000 less with a less powerful engine, marginally less fuel economy, smaller wheels and tires, less room, fewer amenities, less tech, and a woefully nondescript style. Bluetooth was extra cost. Navigation was a $1,750 option and if you got navigation, it knocked out the six-disc CD changer and two auxiliary inputs. On a features adjusted basis, the new Azera costs less not more with navigation. As cars become more and more electronic as well as mechanical devices, their prices are coming down.

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