2025 Hyundai Palisade imagined

There’s a new-generation Hyundai Palisade on the way next year – almost certainly bringing hybrid power for the first time – and it’s just been rendered based on a spate of recent spy images out of Europe and Korea.

Featuring a similarly boxy silhouette to the smaller Santa Fe, this rendering of the second-generation Palisade by Russian website Kolesa.ru looks like it taps into Hyundai’s growing IONIQ portfolio for design inspiration judging by the pixel daytime running lights flanking the grille and hidden headlights.

Said grille will be largely rectangular and span almost the entire front-end, underneath a full-width LED light strip that, in turn, underlines the leading edge of the bonnet as per the Staria people-mover.

The square and rectangular arrangements compliment the boxy body and set the tone for the rest of the large SUV’s design – including at the rear, where there are vertically-tacked tail-light elements and a full-width brake-light strip.

Our sources in Europe tell us the new model will be underpinned by an all-new platform and powered by a Genesis-derived 3.5-litre V6 turbo-petrol engine, or the option of a 2.5-litre four-cylinder hybrid system, though it remains to be seen if it will be turbocharged.

Both powertrains will provide oodles of low-end grunt, positioning the Palisade a little further upmarket than its predecessor, which is powered by the same 3.5-litre petrol V6 and 2.2-litre turbo-diesel as the previous-generation Santa Fe.

The bigger and gutsier engines will not only help distinguish the full-size SUV from its smaller seven-seat counterpart and bridge some of the gap between Hyundai and Genesis, but also provide a combustion/hybrid-powered alternative to the upcoming battery-electric Hyundai IONIQ 7.

Despite being larger and more expensive than most other mainstream car-based large SUVs, including the Santa Fe, the current Palisade isn’t doing too badly on the sales charts at the moment.

While its 1400 registrations in the first five months of this year is less than the Kia Sorento (4600), Subaru Outback (4499), Toyota Kluger (3223), Volkswagen Tiguan Allspace (2122), Mazda CX-8 (2067) and Hyundai’s own Santa Fe (1881), it’s a lot more than both the Nissan Pathfinder (301) – arguably its biggest rival – and Skoda Kodiaq (576).

Odds are the new-generation Hyundai Palisade will be revealed later this year ahead of its global release in 2025.

Digital images: Kolesa.ru

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