Features That Make the 2025 Hyundai Palisade Stand Out in Alabama
The 2025 Hyundai Palisade offers an exceptional blend of luxury, technology, and practicality at a starting MSRP of $37,100. This midsize SUV delivers outstanding value, and with seating for up to eight passengers and premium features, it’s the perfect family vehicle for driving around Mobile, South Alabama. Our team from Allen Turner Hyundai in nearby Pensacola, Florida, compiled this guide to the innovative and stylish 2025 Palisade to highlight its top features.
Brief Overview of the Hyundai Palisade’s Evolution
Since its debut in late 2018 for the 2020 model year, the Hyundai Palisade has established itself as a leader in the midsize SUV segment. It has received numerous accolades, including the 2020 North American Utility Vehicle of the Year, Consumer Guide’s 2022 Best Buy, 2024 Car and Driver Editors’ Choice, and 2024 Kelley Blue Book Best Resale Value awards. The outgoing model earned the Best SUV award from U.S. News & World Report, and the 2025 Palisade has already received top rankings from The Car Connection and Kelley Blue Book.
What Sets the 2025 Model Apart
The 2025 Hyundai Palisade introduces several notable improvements, including the new midlevel SEL Premium trim. A surround-view camera system and parking distance warning feature are now standard on the XRT model, enhancing safety and convenience. Refined exterior styling elements such as a dark chrome cascading front grille and signature stacked LED headlights and daytime running lights create a modern aesthetic. The SUV’s interior is equally impressive, with ample cargo and passenger space, premium materials, and exceptional comfort and convenience features.
Top Features of the 2025 Hyundai Palisade
Hyundai equips the 2025 Palisade with cutting-edge tech and upscale amenities to elevate the driving experience.
Advanced Safety and Driver-Assist Technologies
Safety is a top priority in the 2025 Hyundai Palisade, as demonstrated by its Top Safety Pick designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. SmartSense is standard across the lineup. It includes blind-spot collision warning, rear cross-traffic collision-avoidance assist, forward collision-avoidance assist with pedestrian detection, lane-keeping assist, lane following assist, driver attention warning, and rear occupant alert.
Certain models offer Hyundai’s Highway Driving Assist II system, remote smart parking assist, and a blind-spot view monitor. With these comprehensive technologies, the Palisade provides optimal protection and peace of mind for you and your family during your daily drives around Alabama.
Cutting-Edge Infotainment and Connectivity Options
The 2025 Palisade’s standard 12.3-inch touch-screen infotainment system features Android Auto and Apple CarPlay compatibility, ensuring seamless smartphone integration, in-dash navigation, and SiriusXM Radio. Up to seven USB ports are available to keep your devices charged throughout the vehicle, and all models include a Wi-Fi hot spot and Bluetooth hands-free with wireless audio streaming.
Proximity Key entry with push-button start provides added convenience. Higher trims come with a 12-speaker Harmon Kardon premium audio system with QuantumLogic Surround with Clari-Fi music restoration technology.
Performance Specs: Engine, Transmission, and Fuel Efficiency
The 2025 Palisade features a 3.8-liter V-6 with 291 horsepower and 262 lb-ft of torque. This engine pairs with an eight-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive (FWD) is standard, and all-wheel drive (AWD) is optional on the SE, SEL, XRT, SEL Premium, Limited, and Calligraphy trim levels and included on the top-tier Calligraphy Night.
With FWD, the Palisade earns EPA-estimated ratings of 19 mpg in the city and 26 mpg on the highway. It achieved 19 mpg in the city and 24 mpg on the highway when equipped with AWD. The Palisade is rated to tow up to 5,000 pounds with the dealer-installed trailer hitch, making it perfect for family adventures and recreational activities.
Interior Comfort, Seating, and Cargo Space
The three-row 2025 Hyundai Palisade SE seats eight people. Second-row captain’s chairs in the other models reduce passenger capacity to seven. A bench seat in the middle is optional if you choose the SEL Premium trim. The split fold-flat, reclining seats in the second row provide easy access.
The entry-level SE model has cloth seating surfaces, while the higher trims upgrade to luxurious H-Tex-trimmed and nappa leather seats. Premium features on select variants include an Ergo-Motion eight-way power driver’s seat, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, microfiber headliner, and quilted leather door panels. Heated and ventilated front seats are standard on most trim levels, and many also offer this for second- and third-row passengers. Dual automatic temperature control will keep everyone onboard comfortable in Alabama’s varying climate.
Cargo capacity is a highlight of the 2025 Hyundai Palisade. It features 18 cubic feet of volume with all seats in place and 45.8 cubic feet with the third row folded down. If you need to accommodate bulky or oversized items, you can fold the second and third rows to create a remarkable 86.4 cubic feet of space.
Is the 2025 Hyundai Palisade the Right Choice for You?
The 2025 Palisade offers exceptional value, with affordable pricing, innovative safety and driver-assist technologies, premium comfort and convenience features, and advanced infotainment options. Hyundai offers the SUV in seven trim levels, ranging from the affordable SE at a starting MSRP of $37,100 to the premium Calligraphy Night, which has a starting MSRP of $54,400.
Our Allen Turner Hyundai team will guide you through the Palisade’s outstanding features, highlighting what sets it apart from its competitors and why it’s a standout choice for your next SUV. Explore our new vehicles specials in Pensacola, Florida, to find current offers on the 2025 Palisade.
Experience the 2025 Hyundai Palisade at Allen Turner Hyundai
Visit our Allen Turner Hyundai dealership near Mobile, Alabama, to explore the 2025 Palisade firsthand. Our team will help you find the perfect model for your needs. Contact us online or call us at 850-479-9667 to schedule a test-drive, and discover why the 2025 Palisade is the perfect SUV for your family.
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