Hyundai Bayon, the new entry-level model in the Hyundai SUV range

We have been drip-feeding information about the new Hyundai Bayon that the Korean brand has been revealing to us over the last few weeks. Now, Hyundai confirms all the details of its new crossover, derived from the new Hyundai i20, and which will be the entry-level model by price in the brand’s SUV range.

Size and exterior design of the Hyundai Bayon

The Hyundai Bayon – the name refers to Bayonne, the capital of the French Basque Country – uses the platform of the new i20, with which it shares a wheelbase of 2.58 metres. Its exterior dimensions are 4,180 mm in length, 1,775 mm in width and 1,490 mm in height. Its ground clearance is 183 mm. With these dimensions, the Bayon is slightly smaller than the recently updated Hyundai Kona. It competes squarely in the B-SUV segment.

The Hyundai Bayon combines some design elements we have seen on the 2021 Kona with others from the new Tucson. Some of its most characteristic and distinctive features are the three-part main headlights combined with the air intakes and the daytime running lights as an extension of the horizontal air intake that defines the bonnet. At the rear, the shape of the rear pillar and the design of the tailgate stand out, with arrow-shaped lights and the extended rear window.

The Hyundai Bayon is offered in up to 9 body colours, one of them a special green as the launch colour. In some cases you can choose the two-tone effect, with a black roof. The wheel offering ranges from 15-inch wheels on the base versions up to 17-inch wheels on the best-equipped ones.

Bayon interior: spacious and digitalised

The interior design of the Bayon makes it clear that its base is the i20’s, with a practically identical dashboard. However, the design of its body allows for excellent interior space, as well as a boot capacity of 411 litres, greater than that of the Kona itself.

As in the i20, you can choose between two screens for the multimedia system, one with 8 inches and another with 10.25 inches. In both cases they include integration for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, without the need for a cable. In the front seats there are two USB ports, and another for the rear seats, which allow you to charge mobile devices or connect them to the car’s multimedia system. Depending on the trim, it may be equipped with a wireless charger, a Bose audio system and a 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster.

The Hyundai Bluelink connectivity is not missing either, with a multitude of connected services: routes, user profiles, remote vehicle location, locking or unlocking doors, points of interest, remote diagnosis of the vehicle’s status (tyre pressures, fuel level), and so on. As a novelty, it is now also possible to integrate Google or Apple calendars into the multimedia system.

The Hyundai Bayon also has the safety features of Hyundai Smartsense, many of them as standard. Notable are the NSCC intelligent cruise control, which adjusts speed taking into account data from the navigation system. It can also include the assistants that are now normal in this category, such as lane keeping. Or the new front collision avoidance system with pedestrian and cyclist detection, which adds a function for turning at intersections capable of applying the brakes if, when turning left or at an intersection, an oncoming car is detected.

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Engines: petrol, with and without mild hybridisation

The engine range for the Bayon is based solely on petrol powertrains. They are the same ones used in the Hyundai i20.

Entry to the range is the naturally aspirated 1.2 with 84 CV, paired with a five-speed manual gearbox. It is followed by the three-cylinder 1.0 T-GDI with turbocharger, in two variants: with 100 CV or 120 CV. The less powerful one is offered with or without 48-volt MHEV mild hybridisation, which is standard on the 120 CV version.

The gearbox is a six-speed manual on the 100 CV non-hybrid version, and the six-speed 6iMT intelligent manual gearbox for the MHEV versions. The latter decouples the engine from the transmission when coasting. You can also opt for the 7DCT dual-clutch gearbox.

An interesting detail of the Bayon is that it becomes the first SUV from the brand to use the so-called Rev Matching function of Hyundai, available on the 1.0 T-GDi MHEV 48V with 6iMT gearbox. It works when the driver selects Sport mode from the three available (the other two are Normal and Eco), and what it does is synchronise the engine with the gearbox output shaft, to achieve smoother gear changes and faster downshifts in sporty driving.

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Technical specifications of this car

CrossoverHyundai BAYON6 versions · from 25,060 €