AOL has an excellent first drive of the 2011 Hyundai Sonata. The car has been getting rave reviews generally, as expected. But this article is good journalism to boot. Particularly, in the section titled The audacity of limiting choice, Reilly Brennan analyses the wisdom of doing away with a V6 engine option, in the current US market.

A couple of stories on hyundai-blog.com show some leaked images of the i40, the new mid-luxury sedan soon to take its place above the i30 within the i range in Europe (it's still called the Sonata in the US). The car looks like a winner judging by this post and especially this one.