Hyundai Azera Quality has risen, style has become modern, and the driving experience is as good as any of its competitors from Japan. When the Azera rolled into our test garage, the overwhelming response was, "Oh yeah, that's still around."The Azera is old school Hyundai Azera , designed when the company had just started to figure out what needed to be done to play with the big boys, but couldn't quite execute it. Everything on the Korean midsize is developed to 7/10. It still seems like this is the test car for newer, better cars like the Genesis and the new Sonata. It isn't necessarily a bad car; it just isn't what we know Hyundai Azera is capable of.
Build quality is good. Gaps are consistent, the paint is nice, and the styling borrows from some of the best names in the business, but Hyundai Azera can't quite meld it into a coherent form. There is a bit too much mass over the undersized 17-inch wheels, the part lines look more like they were meant for cost-effective body part-stamping than styling, and the look just doesn't flow like the new Genesis.
