Hyundai Mufasa Adventure: Preview new SUV

Hyundai’s Chinese delivery range is particularly interesting. It includes a huge range of models that you don’t know at all in Europe. From the Celesta to the Mistra and from the Mistra to the Lafesta, Custo and a Santa Fe different from the European one. Hyundai sells the Tucson as you can buy it in the Netherlands in extended form, but also has its predecessor ix35 on the menu. At least, a thoroughly tightened version of it. The Chinese Hyundai ix35 has had its own complete body since 2017, but it is still on the platform of the last ix35 that you could also buy in the Netherlands. The ix35 does not seem to have a long life and with this Hyundai Mufasa Adventure, Hyundai is most likely showing an adventurous preview of its successor.

The Hyundai Mustafa in production form.

The Hyundai Mufasa Adventure is an adventurously dressed show car that – if you ignore the external decoration – gives an excellent indication of what you can expect from the final production version. How do we know that for sure? Very simple: we already know what the Hyundai Mufasa will really look like. In February we surfaced the first photos and the first technical data of the model, so the Mufasa Adventure feels a bit like mustard after the meal.

The Hyundai Mufasa will be 4.48 meters long, making it almost as long as the ix35 it will probably replace. The wheelbase of the Mufasa is also comparable to that of the ix35 at 2.68. According to the previously found information, the Mufasa will arrive on the Chinese market with a 160 hp 2.0 four-cylinder petrol engine. That power source is also available in the ix35. Until Hyundai puts names like Simba and Rafiki on a car, the Mufasa seems to be the only Hyundai to be named after an animal from Disney’s ‘Lion King’.