Friday, October 31, 2014

This “Street-Art-Influenced” Hyundai Is How You Slam a Sonata

2015 Hyundai JP Edition Sonata

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.



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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