New Santa Fe better looking and well equiped

Dazzler · **September 03, 2012, 10:17:00**

Most of the Long Term members on here will know I'm not a big SUV fan but the new Santa Fe looks better than the old one to my eyes and is very well equipped (I reckon they should sell pretty well)

http://www.hyundai.com.au/vehicles/all-new-santa-fe

Doggie 1 · **Reply #1: September 03, 2012, 10:24:51**

I agree - I like the look of that.
I'm not a huge fan of the cross-overs & 4WDs either (I hate the American term SUV, Sports Utility Vehicle, what's that?

) but I like the look of that.
I just checked the price though and an Elite diesel on road is almost $51,000 and that's not even the top model.
The days of Hyundai being a cheap alternative are gone I think.

Dazzler · **Reply #2: September 03, 2012, 10:33:13**

I wish the i40 had the 2.2 Diesel .. something like 421nm of Torque

and the economy is not bad for a big vehicle at 6.6 combined for the Manual

P.S. Don't know why I said SUV (I dislike that term as well)

Doggie 1 · **Reply #3: September 03, 2012, 10:41:14**

Yes, we always want more, don't we (I know I do).
The 2.2 in the i40 sounds good to me.
A 2.0 litre diesel in the i30 sounds pretty good too.

FatBoy · **Reply #4: September 03, 2012, 10:48:21**

Wow! That is lots of torque. That pulls harder than a fifteen year old school boy.

Dazzler · **Reply #5: September 03, 2012, 10:50:57**

Quote from: FatBoy on September 03, 2012, 10:48:21

Wow! That is lots of torque. That pulls harder than a fifteen year old school boy.

I'd rather not torque about what I was like 40 years ago

Doggie 1 · **Reply #6: September 03, 2012, 10:53:34**

Quote from: Dazzler on September 03, 2012, 10:50:57

Quote from: FatBoy on September 03, 2012, 10:48:21
Wow! That is lots of torque. That pulls harder than a fifteen year old school boy.

I'd rather not torque about what I was like 40 years ago

Probably all torque.

beerman · **Reply #7: September 03, 2012, 12:55:34**

Nice,

looks better than the old one.

Phil №❶ · **Reply #8: September 03, 2012, 14:11:25**

The Santa Fe has DPF doesn't it, even in Oz

richie_bl · **Reply #9: September 05, 2012, 03:07:01**

Quote from: db08 on September 03, 2012, 10:24:51

I agree - I like the look of that.
I'm not a huge fan of the cross-overs & 4WDs either (I hate the American term SUV, Sports Utility Vehicle, what's that? ) but I like the look of that.
I just checked the price though and an Elite diesel on road is almost $51,000 and that's not even the top model.
The days of Hyundai being a cheap alternative are gone I think.

SUV is a fancy term that the US "soccer moms" can give to there fancy gas guzzling "station waggons"

Doggie 1 · **Reply #10: September 05, 2012, 04:39:02**

It doesn't seem to have any relevance here.
In Australia a utility (ute) is a pickup elsewhere so SUV really doesn't fit or mean anything.
It's just a term that we've blindly copied from the U.S.