2026 Palisade Hybrid Calligraphy - a near triumph
The Palisade has a beautiful interior with great comfort, excellent technology and distinctive exterior styling - all of which attracted us to it. This is our 3rd Hyundai (we had a 2021 Palisade that we traded in for this one, and still have a 2022 Santa Cruz). Our enthusiasm for the car waned pretty quickly though as we had two mechanical issues with in the first 2 months of having the car. First, one of the air vents on the front grill malfunctioned in an "always open" position, which eventually lead to several powertrain malfunction notices resulting in us having to leave our car at the dealership for two weeks. Then, our battery died and turned out to be faulty which we discovered after 4 days of not driving during a blizzard/snow storm that shuttered us for a week. Needless to say, it was not ideal to have this type of experience on a $60k+ car. The dealership (Mike Camlin Hyundai) was mostly very good to deal with - though they did initially resist giving us a loaner car even while we were getting "critical malfunction" messages and being told by the car to take it in immediately and we had to insist - but our experience has been somewhat spoiled by these issues. That said, since the battery was replaced in late January we have not had any further issues and are hoping that remains the case.