Ssangyong Rexton (2017)

[FiestaST]

All-new Rexton has been announced.

New Ssangyong Rexton revealed

Codenamed Y400, the large SUV will be Ssangyong’s flagship model and is set to cost less than £30,000 when it goes on sale

The new Ssangyong Rexton has been revealed and its name officially confirmed ahead of its public debut at the Seoul motor show this week.

The SUV will continue the Rexton name internationally - but will be called G4 Rexton in Korea - and will be available with rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive.

It will go on sale in Korea during the first half of this year and in other markets by the end of 2017 with a host of new tech including Apple Carplay, Android Auto, '3D Around View Monitoring' and a 9.2in screen. Ssangyong says the Rexton’s successor will also major on safety.

The first official picture of the production model shows the SUV draws heavily from the LIV-2 concept shown at the Paris motor show last year.

The Korean manufacturer says it will have a balanced weight distribution and towing capabilities, as well as improved refinement over the outgoing model.

The Rexton successor is 4850mm long, 1920mm wide, 1800mm high and gets a 2864mm wheelbase. It will be aimed squarely at the Hyundai Santa Fe in the large SUV market, and those measurements show the Ssangyong is bigger than its Hyundai rival.

The new Rexton will be the flagship model in Ssangyong’s range, above the Korando and a new seven-seat SUV that was previewed with the XAVL concept at the Geneva motor show.

It will come with a choice of a new 2.2-litre diesel and 2.0-litre turbo petrol engines, and equipment will include lane departure warning and autonomous braking. Pricing is expected to start at less than £30,000 in the UK, which would undercut the £32,230 Santa Fe.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/new-ssangyong-rexton-revealed

This is what the current model looks like. You see them on local roads here & there:

 

[Hemi300c]

Doesn't look bad but historically they have a @rse problem and no pics of it?

 

[Johnatan56]

Doesn't look bad but historically they have a @rse problem and no pics of it?

 

[Hemi300c]

Thanks not bad actually

 

[FiestaST]

That's the old model. New one not shown yet.

 

[Johnatan56]

That's the old model. New one not shown yet.

Sorry, here:

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/m...ssangyong-rexton-previewed-liv-2-concept-form

The image I previously posted had a 3 day time-stamp, so I assumed.

 

[Binary_Bark]

Massive improvement of the old fugly thing

 

[FiestaST]

Developed under the project name of Y400 and seen as the LIV-2 concept at the Paris motor show in September 2016, the new car inherits the heritage and DNA of the original Rexton as a large, authentic SUV. It will be known internationally as SsangYong Rexton, and 'G4 Rexton' in Korea.

SsangYong expects this new generation Rexton to compete with traditional D & E segment SUVs, and will continue the renewal of SsangYong's brand identity which began with the launch of Tivoli. Inheriting the brand values of the original Rexton as its flagship, it will also further underpin the company's reputation as Korea's oldest vehicle manufacturer and only 4x4 and SUV specialist producer.

With a refined and luxurious interior, the new SsangYong Rexton will feature Apple Carplay and Android Auto with device mirroring, 3D Around View Monitoring (AVM) and a wide 9.2-inch HD screen.

The new car embodies robust and dynamic SUV styling and blends drivability with high levels of safety that includes nine airbags. With a front mounted engine, rear-wheel drive and 4x4, Rexton will be a class-leading contender. It will offer excellent driving characteristics on and off-road, balanced weight distribution, great towing capability and NVH performance.

Constructed using a Quad-Frame body structure using 1.5Gpa giga-steel - a world first, it also features 63% advanced high strength steel (AHSS) to create greatly improved body strength while reducing weight.

SsangYong Rexton is 4,850mm long, 1,920mm wide, 1,800mm high, and has a 2,865mm wheelbase. It will be powered by both petrol and new clean-burning diesel engines.

The car will go on sale in Korea during the first half of 2017, and internationally before the end of 2017.

https://www.netcarshow.com/ssangyong/2018-rexton/

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Massive improvement of the old fugly thing

thats very true, at least wheels right size now, not tiny like the old one,

 

[FiestaST]

Ssangyong reveals new Fortuner-rivalling Rexton

Ssangyong has pulled the covers off its all-new Rexton and unlike its smaller siblings such as the Tivoli and redesigned Korando, which have jumped on the unibody bandwagon, the SUV specialist's largest contender sticks to the traditional body-on-frame format.

That means it’ll again go head-to-head with the likes of Toyota’s Fortuner, although the Ssangyong is slightly larger, measuring 4850mm in length and 1920mm in width (versus 4795/1855), and claims class-leading boot space.

Its underpinnings might follow a more old-fashioned recipe, which is good for off-roading as it does offer a traditional part-time four-wheel-drive system with low-range gearing, but Ssangyong also appears to have done much to modernise the package. 63 percent of its new structure, for instance, consists of advanced high-strength steel, to the benefit of safety, rigidity and weight-loss.

The new SUV offers all the trappings you’d expect from a modern luxury vehicle, including driver assistance systems such as Autonomous Emergency Braking, Blind Spot Alert, Rear Cross Traffic Alert and 3D Around View Monitoring. The Rexton also comes with a touch-screen infotainment system offering Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity and the cabin can be kitted out in a variety of seating styles, including Nappa leather with quilted stitch patterns.

Power comes from either a 2.2-litre turbodiesel engine, mated to a seven-speed autobox sourced from Mercedes-Benz, or a 2-litre turbopetrol that’s paired with a six-speed auto. The company has yet to disclose how much power or torque these engines produce.

Though it might not be the most exciting-looking SUV around, the new Rexton should at least prove less controversial than many of its oddball siblings from the past. What’s more, it ushers in a new design language for the South Korean, albeit Mahindra-owned, carmaker, particularly with regard to the bird’s-wing-inspired grille and up-kicked rear shoulder line.

We’re currently awaiting word on when, or if for that matter, the new Rexton will be coming to South Africa.

http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/lates...reveals-new-fortuner-rivalling-rexton-8420159

 

[SykomantiS]

thats very true, at least wheels right size now, not tiny like the old one,

What are you on about? Standard wheels on my Rexton are 18", 255/65 - in my opinion, a 4x4 needs less wheel and more rubber (sidewall)- something like a 17" or 16" wheel. Truth be told, it could also do with a little more ground clearance (especially that rear diff). It's adequate, but nothing spectacular.

Everybody keeps saying ugly, I don't get it- it's not that much different in looks to an ML or Tuna (older models)- There are other SsangYongs that are ugly... confusing them with each other perhaps?

I'd like to see the new Rexton locally, but I doubt we'll see anything newsworthy. Take the Korando as example. Rest of the world gets the new updated 2.2 diesel, along with a new 6 speed auto box and AWD, while we get saddled with the poverty-spec FWD petrol (old N/A motor) in manual. Also none of the cabin goodies such as satnav etc. that is available outside our borders.

I fear the Rexton will go much the same way- I hope I'm wrong.

 

[Binary_Bark]

What are you on about? Standard wheels on my Rexton are 18", 255/65 - in my opinion, a 4x4 needs less wheel and more rubber (sidewall)- something like a 17" or 16" wheel. Truth be told, it could also do with a little more ground clearance (especially that rear diff). It's adequate, but nothing spectacular.

Everybody keeps saying ugly, I don't get it- it's not that much different in looks to an ML or Tuna (older models)- There are other SsangYongs that are ugly... confusing them with each other perhaps?

I'd like to see the new Rexton locally, but I doubt we'll see anything newsworthy. Take the Korando as example. Rest of the world gets the new updated 2.2 diesel, along with a new 6 speed auto box and AWD, while we get saddled with the poverty-spec FWD petrol (old N/A motor) in manual. Also none of the cabin goodies such as satnav etc. that is available outside our borders.

I fear the Rexton will go much the same way- I hope I'm wrong.

Think he meant the Actyon.
The proportions where out of wack and made the wheels seem tiny. Even the new one

 

[FiestaST]

Oh yes...the Ssangyong "Action"...lol

 

[SykomantiS]

Ssangyong reveals new Fortuner-rivalling Rexton

Ssangyong has pulled the covers off its all-new Rexton and unlike its smaller siblings such as the Tivoli and redesigned Korando, which have jumped on the unibody bandwagon, the SUV specialist's largest contender sticks to the traditional body-on-frame format.

That means it’ll again go head-to-head with the likes of Toyota’s Fortuner, although the Ssangyong is slightly larger, measuring 4850mm in length and 1920mm in width (versus 4795/1855), and claims class-leading boot space.

Its underpinnings might follow a more old-fashioned recipe, which is good for off-roading as it does offer a traditional part-time four-wheel-drive system with low-range gearing, but Ssangyong also appears to have done much to modernise the package. 63 percent of its new structure, for instance, consists of advanced high-strength steel, to the benefit of safety, rigidity and weight-loss.

The new SUV offers all the trappings you’d expect from a modern luxury vehicle, including driver assistance systems such as Autonomous Emergency Braking, Blind Spot Alert, Rear Cross Traffic Alert and 3D Around View Monitoring. The Rexton also comes with a touch-screen infotainment system offering Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity and the cabin can be kitted out in a variety of seating styles, including Nappa leather with quilted stitch patterns.

Power comes from either a 2.2-litre turbodiesel engine, mated to a seven-speed autobox sourced from Mercedes-Benz, or a 2-litre turbopetrol that’s paired with a six-speed auto. The company has yet to disclose how much power or torque these engines produce.

Though it might not be the most exciting-looking SUV around, the new Rexton should at least prove less controversial than many of its oddball siblings from the past. What’s more, it ushers in a new design language for the South Korean, albeit Mahindra-owned, carmaker, particularly with regard to the bird’s-wing-inspired grille and up-kicked rear shoulder line.

We’re currently awaiting word on when, or if for that matter, the new Rexton will be coming to South Africa.

http://www.iol.co.za/motoring/lates...reveals-new-fortuner-rivalling-rexton-8420159

AMG Speedshift 7G-Tronic?

I've always wondered why they didn't have the 7 speed as an option. Wish I had one...

Think he meant the Actyon.
The proportions where out of wack and made the wheels seem tiny. Even the new one

That does look a bit odd...

 

[FiestaST]

Still no sign of the tap hitting SA.

https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/773098-Ssangyong-Tivoli

 

[FiestaST]

Ssangyong Rexton 2.2D Ultimate 2017 review

Should I buy one?

It’s the Rexton’s robust, off-roading credentials and its ability to lug 3.5 tonnes that make the strongest rational case for this SUV, which is an old fashioned 4x4 of the Toyota Land Cruiser and Mitsubishi Shogun's ilk, and there are undoubtedly buyers who require just those capabilities.

However, there will also be plenty who will be swayed by the Rexton’s quietly handsome presence, its reasonable value for money and, higher up the range, the opulence of its interior.

Despite a ride that may prove irritatingly busy on British roads, languid performance and thirst for fuel, there’s something comfortingly likeable about the Rexton, with its robust inner core and sumptuous interior strong draws. Rationally, it makes only limited sense unless it’s needed for heavy duty tasks, but it’s an impressive leap forward for the recovering Ssangyong and certainly worth a look.

Ssangyong Rexton 2.2d Ultimate

Location Seoul, South Korea; On sale October; Price £37,500; Engine four cyls, 2157cc, turbodiesel; Power 179bhp at 4000rpm; Torque 310lb ft at 1600-2600rpm; Gearbox 7-spd automatic; Kerbweight 2130kg; 0-62mph 11.0sec; Top speed 115mph; Economy 34.0mpg; CO2 218g/km; Rivals Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Sorento

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-revie...ves/ssangyong-rexton-22d-ultimate-2017-review

 

[FiestaST]

Driving the Ssangyong Rexton to the North Korean border

The Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea is no place for a car test. Richard Bremner takes a Ssangyong Rexton there anyway

The morning after President Trump threatened North Korea with ‘fire and fury’, we took a drive to its borders.

That might sound reckless, but no more so than travelling to South Korea in the first place, where Seoul’s 10 million inhabitants live with the implied threat of Kim Jong-un’s pugnacious outpourings and crowings over his nation’s latest missile tests.

Ask an inhabitant how they feel and most seem sanguine – the heightened verbal spat between the US and North Korea “is between them, and not about South Korea”, says Ssangyong’s Kyung Taek Yoon. If the glorious leader does go nuclear at Seoul, there’ll be little time even to know about it, still less think, the capital being just 45 seconds away by missile.

So it’s difficult not to feel a frisson of excitement as we climb aboard a Ssangyong Rexton for the journey north. The Rexton is just the kind of car an Armageddon survivor might need. It’s quite tall, providing an earlier opportunity to see an enemy, it has plenty of room for supplies and its robust body sits on a substantial chassis that accommodates a decently powerful diesel engine and no-nonsense part-time four-wheel drive, complete with low range. You will also be travelling in relative luxury should you survive to greet a post-apocalyptic world.

The cabin’s allure holds good as we break free of traffic-infested Seoul. We pass fields, villages and, for long coastal stretches, spirals of barbed wire punctuated with camouflaged observation posts. See this and you see the reality of a country living under threat, so it’s a surprise to find a funfair next to the car park for visitors to the Demilitarised Zone.

The DMZ is the strip of no man’s land that separates North and South Korea. A mildly propagandist video later tells us that the DMZ is the home of wildlife that flourishes unthreatened by man. Tourism is a major activity along this part of the DMZ. You can joke about being nuked on the Big Dipper, but the possibility is real. We get to within 170 metres of North Korea, in a dank tunnel dynamited from granite. This is Tunnel 3, one of four discovered by South Korea in 1974, 1977, 1978 and 1990, each running beneath the border and capable of allowing 30,000 soldiers to pass through per hour. North Korea reluctantly admitted to digging the tunnels, but smeared them with lies about coal mining, which is a geological impossibility in the area.

The apparent severity of the threat is lessened by the tourist coaches and the souvenir shop selling lengths
 of DMZ barbed wire and DMZ chocolates, while a museum contains guns and ammo from the Korean war and scale models of border buildings. But the most intriguing display is a huge photograph of North Korea a few hundred metres from us.

Visible is a huge mast jamming South Korean radio and TV signals, stopping North Koreans from seeing what life on the other side is like, and fake villages that look better than the shabby reality for most of Kim Jong-un’s abused citizens. There’s a huge flagpole, too, the result of a ludicrous ‘mine’s bigger than yours’ face-off between the two nations. The North Korean flag allegedly weighs 275kg.

There’s amusing lunacy here, but a visit to Dorasan railway station and a bit of imagination can get your disquiet dialled up again.
 This modern ghost of a station was built in 2002 in the hope that, one day, it would teem with the trains and travellers of a reunified Korea. You can walk along a platform populated only by knots of tourists, and stare towards the forbidden land beside rails whose top surfaces rust unburnished by rolling stock.

In the nearby countryside, we find a rather tame set of tracks intended to demonstrate the Rexton’s off-road skills. A steepish, rutted hill tests it slightly – without the need for four-wheel drive – and reveals a couple
 of things. First, that the ride keeps jostling, and second, that this car feels tough. What this little trip also reveals is the Han River, which flows from North Korea. We use it as a photographic backdrop and enjoy its calming quiet. But the reason for the pristine river banks and the lack of people, we’re told, is the threatening proximity of the DMZ.

We leave for Seoul, whose bustling civilisation makes it easier to forget the tunnels and gun emplacements, if not the rhetoric of a pair of world leaders that would be comical were it not so chilling. Mentioning the Rexton seems trite in this context, but let’s hope it isn’t needed for post-apocalypse duties.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/driving-ssangyong-rexton-north-korean-border

 

[FiestaST]

Ssangyong Rexton 2.2D Ultimate auto 2017 UK review

Should I buy one?

If you prefer to avoid the (considerable) price of badge-appeal charged by better-known manufacturers, and simply seek a well-founded, well-made, well-equipped working vehicle, you should definitely consider the Rexton. There’s no doubt that it's very good value for money and decent to drive, and as far as we could see, build quality is fine.

Ssangyong dealers report very low warranty claims thus far, too. The Rexton isn’t a driver’s car - most would argue not much in this class can be - but it has an endearing do-anything quality and happily makes progress. Ssangyong expects to treble its British volume with this new model, and it’s easy to see why.

Ssangyong Rexton 2.2D Ultimate auto

Where Staffordshire On sale Now Price £37,500 Engine 4cyl, 2157cc, turbocharged diesel Power 179bhp @ 4000rpm Torque 310lb ft @ 1600-2100rpm Gearbox 7-spd auto Kerb weight 2100kg Top speed 115mph 0-62mph 11.9sec Fuel economy 34.8mpg CO2 rating 218g/km Rivals Hyundai Santa Fe, Volvo XC90

 

[Hemi300c]

Still nothing for SA?

I actually like it.

 

[SykomantiS]

I doubt we'll get it. We still haven't received the new Korando with the 2.2 diesel motor- and that's a 2016 model.