John Pangilinan claims the Hyundai Sonata he's built for SEMA is evocative of Los Angeles street art. We wish the street artists of Los Angeles would organize into a cabal and just paint the whole place white with a black stripe. Or just do the whole joint up in a 2Tone-inspired checkerboard pattern. Los Angeles: the city that's ruder than you.
Pangilinan explains, "I wanted to connect the street art culture to automotive, without going too over the top with a full-blown art car." We're not entirely sure we make the connection, but it's been over a decade since we were regularly hanging out with street-artist types. We did drive the new Sonata earlier this year and found it enjoyable, if a mite on the stodgy side, especially given that the variant we ran our full battery of tests on was deemed a "sport" model.
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The JP Edition Sonata seems to address those concerns, with its dropped suspension featuring KW coil-overs, 19-inch lightweight RAYS wheels, AEM intake, Bisimoto hot charge pipe, and Magnaflow exhaust. Hyundai's comfy chairs have been tossed in favor of a pair of Recaro's Cross Sportster seats. An Alpine sound system with bits from Scosche Electronics should handle all the Dandy Livingstone or Desmond Dekker an on-the-go artiste might throw into the deck. Is a deck still a thing?
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