2025 Hyundai Palisade Adds Trim, Priced From $38,215

Entering its sixth model year, the three-row Hyundai Palisade SUV largely holds the line on pricing for 2025, which increases just a few hundred dollars for most trim levels over 2024. The XRT is the lone exception, jumping $870 from 2024, but that’s because it now boasts more standard equipment, including front parking sensors, auto-dimming side mirrors and a 360-degree camera system. The Premium Package previously available on the SEL trim level now becomes a distinct trim level, SEL Premium. The Palisade is otherwise unchanged for 2025.

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Powertrain Specs and MPG

All 2025 Palisades are powered by a 291-horsepower, 3.8-liter V-6 engine making 262 pounds-feet of torque and paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive is standard; all-wheel drive is a $2,000 option on every trim level except the range-topping Calligraphy Night Edition, where it’s standard. With FWD, the Palisade returns an EPA-rated 19/26/22 mpg city/highway/combined; AWD Palisades are rated at 19/24/21 mpg.

Availability and Pricing

The 2025 Hyundai Palisade goes on sale later in 2024. Pricing (including $1,415 destination) is as follows:

• SE: $38,215
• SEL: $40,965
• XRT: $44,065
• SEL Premium: $45,565
• Limited: $49,615
• Calligraphy: $52,015
• Calligraphy Night Edition: $55,515

Safety Features and Trim Levels

All 2025 Hyundai Palisades are fitted with a generous list of standard safety features, including forward collision alert with pedestrian and bicyclist detection and automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitors, rear cross-traffic alert, lane-centering steering, driver attention warning, safe-exit assist, rear occupant alert, rear parking sensors and automatic high beams.

The base Palisade SE rides on 18-inch wheels and features LED front lighting, keyless entry and start, cloth upholstery, manually adjustable front seats, dual-zone automatic climate control with second-row controls and a 12.3-inch touchscreen with navigation, Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and voice recognition.

Stepping up to the SEL nets LED taillights, a hands-free power liftgate and Hyundai’s Digital Key 2, which allows the owner to use a paired smartphone as the vehicle key. The interior is spiffed up with synthetic leather upholstery, power-adjustable and heated front seats, second-row captain’s chairs, a wireless charging pad and advanced rear occupant alert, which can alert the owner of children or pets left in the vehicle by sending a message to their phone.

The XRT gets a more rugged look thanks to unique front and rear bumpers and lower-body trim. It’s also fitted with a dark-finish grille, 20-inch wheels, a power moonroof, front parking sensors, a 360-degree camera system and rear window shades.

The SEL Premium does without the XRT’s appearance upgrades — but includes the moonroof — and reinforces the safety suite with intersection assist, which watches for oncoming traffic during turns, as well as emergency steering assist and blind spot cameras. It also adds Highway Driving Assist 2, which allows for hands-on semi-autonomous driving on certain roads. The SEL Premium rides on 20-inch wheels and features ventilated first and second-row seats, heated second-row seats, a heated steering wheel, rear window shades and a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster.

Palisade Limited buyers get a dual-pane moonroof, leather upholstery, additional driver-seat adjustability, heated and power-folding third-row seats, a head-up display, 12-speaker Harman Kardon audio, an in-car intercom for front-seat occupants to scold third-row miscreants, rain-sensing windshield wipers and ambient lighting.

At the top of the Palisade lineup, the Calligraphy adds reverse automatic emergency braking, autonomous parking and a rearview camera mirror that gives the driver a clear line of sight out the back even if the view is obstructed by passengers or cargo. Outside, the Calligraphy is dressed up with unique 20-inch wheels and bumpers, body-color wheel-arch trim and puddle lamps. Inside, it features Nappa leather seating, quilted leather door panels, a massaging driver’s seat, haptic climate controls and a synthetic suede headliner. The Calligraphy Night Edition features the same equipment with a dark-tinted grille, leather and exterior accents, plus black wheels and roof rails.

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