2023 Palisade sightings and confusion

[FeGee3]

My question for someone who knows better than I: how is it that there can be production model vehicles roaming around the streets when Hyundai has not even officially added the newly refreshed model to their publicly available build-and-buy program?

I am by no means a car guru, I have no idea how production-model deliveries occur, timewise, when there is a refresh like the Palisade and Telluride have for 2023. I live in somewhat-boonies of New Hampshire and even up here I have already seen 2 different 2023 Palisade driving around, and yet on the Hyundai website they will not even show you the different trims when you go to build one, just the preproduction Calligraphy trim.

Is it possible we have 2023 Tellys roaming our streets already...??

 

[tpgh]

Could be test mules or most likely vehicles sent out to publications for reviews.

 

[3Rivers]

My question for someone who knows better than I: how is it that there can be production model vehicles roaming around the streets when Hyundai has not even officially added the newly refreshed model to their publicly available build-and-buy program?

North American customers have been taking delivery of 2023 Palisades for a couple of months now. All you have to do is read the Palisade forums to learn this (in addition to the evidence driving down your street). This is no secret. My local Hyundai dealers have been getting plenty of 2023s.

The state of the Hyundai configuration website is irrelevant. Sure, Hyundai should be embarrassed that the update process is so incredibly slow, but the website is not the production gatekeeper.

And no, as far as we know, there are no 2023 Tellurides on our streets yet.

 

[Nvonp]

I can build a 2023 Palisade.. maybe reset your cookies?

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[FeGee3]

Sure you can build one, but why do so when Hyundai does not even provide images of the different trims/specs/colors/etc to match your build?