3.8 L Base model, vs Signature/Technology/Ultimate

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After your question I looked up all of the options that were available. I have the ultimate with awd. I use all of the extra features and that is what I love about the car. I had to take my car in for service and was given a basic sonata and I all of a sudden became a car snob and was miserable in the sonata. I was very hesitant to spend the money on this car but am happy and consider it a rare splurge.

Stepping backwards in the feature room is never easy. Take heated steering wheels. Both my wife's Santa Fe Sport and my Genesis have heated steering wheels. I would be hard pressed to buy or lease a new daily driver without that ('snob') must have feature, especially here in the north east. I had my first heated steering wheel 12 years ago in a 2003 VW Phaeton. All of a sudden features that were once considered snobbish have become 'minimum requirements' . If you didn't have a Genesis that Sonata loaner would have been just fine, right . Nicely optioned cars remind me of 'Hotel California', "you can check in but you can never check out".