Silvio Calabi: Hyundai Santa Fe pushes further upmarket - Wellington Daily News
Loiter by the back of your 2015 Santa Fe Limited chatting with a neighbor, say and you may hear a double beep, a click and a whirr, and youll have to step aside as the liftgate opens by itself. Hyundai has borrowed the Ford Escapes automated rear hatch and upped the ante slightly: Instead of waving a foot under the bumper, to alert a sensor, just walk up to the Santa Fe with the electronic key in your pocket, and maybe a double armload... This is Hyundais first power liftgate, and of course it operates by pushbutton, too. This has been Hyundais mantra since day one More for less. and heaven knows theres no shortage of features on this particular Santa Fe, an all-wheel-drive Limited model with the Ultimate Package. The price is a breath-taking $41,695. Then again, a Ford Edge with much the same equipment, including a similarly enormous skylight roof, costs five or six grand more yet (but has new adaptive safety systems, slightly more power and better gas... The Santa Fe is unique in that it comes in Medium and Large. ) The two rearmost seats could be reached via a pass-through between the two middle seats, or by scootching one of the middle seats forward and folding it down. Fold away the back seats, of course, and suddenly theres all sorts of cargo. Source: www.wellingtondailynews.com
