With the right mixture of instigative connotation and juxtaposition, some things lend themselves to titles beginning with the prefix “anti-” better than others. For example, the antichrist is at once unsocial and, well, the opposite of christ, anticlimactic is both dull and not a climax, and we could go on. To pivot from shadowy biblical characters to 700-plus-hp Hyundais, we bring you another champion of the anti-___ ideal, the Bisimoto-modified Tucson that will be on display at the 2015 SEMA show in Las Vegas. Technically, it’s a crossover, but it’s so evil as to wear the label “anticrossover” like a devilishly well-fitting suit.
Much like the 708-hp, Bisimoto-tuned Sonata Hyundai displayed at last year’s Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association aftermarket show, the modded Tucson will have way too much power. (If it has 708 horsepower, like its Sonata brother, it’ll also come with a buzzworthy 1-hp advantage over Dodge’s ballyhooed Hellcat models.) We found Hyundai’s latest Tucson to be an altogether pleasant high-roof conveyance in our drives of the base and turbocharged uplevel models, but you can bet we’d appreciate it a little more with 500-some-odd additional horsepower.
This is a regular 2016 Hyundai Tucson. It has a 2.0-liter engine and 164 horsepower, and it enjoys home and garden shows.
The Tucson uses the same 2.4-liter four-cylinder as the Bisimoto Sonata, with strengthened internals, a big-ass turbo (technical term), and a special ECU. This engine in regular, pre-Bisimoto’d guise isn’t available in any 2016 Tucson, which utilizes a naturally aspirated 2.0-liter four or a turbocharged 1.6-liter four. Also not present in any regular Tucson is the Bisimoto car’s six-speed manual. Bisimoto chucks the Tucson’s front grille to shove as much air as possible at a colossal intercooler, as well as 19-inch fifteen52 wheels wrapped in R-compound tires, a four-corner air suspension, a four-point roll cage, and a racing seat. It’s not clear if the Tucson is front-wheel drive, although we kind of really hope that it is, for lunacy’s sake. We’ll know for sure when we see it in person at SEMA in November.
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