Space for that bed had to come from somewhere if the designers didn’t want to end up with a ludicrously long Santa Cruz. On the other hand, rear-seat passengers will enjoy far more room to stretch legs and elbows in the SUV. An in-bed trunk can be used as an icebox. Towing capacity is 5,000 lb for the Santa Cruz, which far outdoes the Tucson and its 2,000-lb capacity. Note, however, that the latter is some 180 kg lighter than its new stablemate, which has to mean that in similar driving situations, I likely would have consumed less with the SUV. I averaged, during my week of mainly in-city driving, a total of 12.7L/100 km, which is fairly satisfactory, along the lines of what you could expect from a… Tucson. The Santa Cruz runs on a 2.5L turbo engine good for 281 hp and 311 lb-ft of torque. And along the way, it consumes more or less the amount of fuel a Santa Fe does. (Its dimensions are between the smaller Tucson and the larger Santa Fe).
For another, the Santa Cruz handles like an SUV when the traffic starts to move (it’s built on a unibody platform), and it parks like one when you arrive at destination. You’re on the same level as all the compact and mid-size SUVs around you in traffic. For one thing, you’re not sitting so high off the ground, like in a Ram or F-150. Sit inside and, if it wasn't for the differently-framed view when you check in your rearview mirror, you’d pretty quickly forget you’re not in a regular old SUV. You can also call the drive this thing offers SUV-esque. However you refer to it, this is a vehicle the conception of which is more inspired by SUVs than trucks. Anyways, Hyundai itself doesn’t even call it a pickup, its marketing team having come up with a new description for it that I can almost guarantee won’t catch on: Sports Adventure Vehicle. If Hyundai chooses to not call Santa Cruz a pickup truck, they have done some work to make. For sure, “truck” is maybe not the most accurate description for what is in essence something between a Tucson and a Santa Fe with a bed where the cargo space normally is.
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