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The cheapest version of the 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe seven-seat SUV is estimated to cost close to $60,000 drive-away when it arrives in Australian showrooms as soon as next month.
Buick continues pushing to update its portfolio with a refreshed 2024 Envision. Launching the second-generation Envision only a handful of years ago, the company is giving the crossover a series of important updates. The biggest draw for prospective ‘24 Envision buyers is a new, 30-inch standard display, surrounded by revised interior and exterior styling. Buick is also shaking up the available trim options this year. In 2023, Buick sold 44,281 Envisions in the US (up a surprising 71% from 2022), but this upscale midsize crossover lags far behind mainstream rivals such as the Chevy Equinox, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Santa Fe, Mazda CX-5, Nissan Rogue, and Toyota RAV4. As for the powertrain, Buick left
EVs dominated the 2024 World Car of the Year competition with Kia’s EV9 taking overall honours in a sea of competition from Chinese brands. Here are the other victors from the annual competition.
Cupra’s flagship large electric SUV will make its way into Australian dealerships when it is released by the end of this decade.
Hyundai seems to be gearing up to introduce an off-road capable version of the Ioniq 5. The Ioniq 5 that's been spied testing has new wheels, updated bumpers as well as some noteworthy additions made to the exterior over the standard Ioniq 5.
Just like with so many recent Hyundais, the 2024 Santa Fe grabbed the car world's attention with its bold design. The midsize crossover jumped from a handsome-yet-generic shape to a crisply creased box, capitalizing on both the trend toward squared-off and off-road-oriented designs and Hyundai’s recent retro-futuristic motif. According to Kevin Kang, the head of Hyundai Design North America, the design and development process took place during the pandemic, and it quickly became apparent that customers were going to want something that looked, felt and was reasonably capable of getting them away from it all. To that end, it’s evident from early sketches that ruggedness was always a key focus. That led in part to the boxy shape, but it informed the desire to offer maximum space, again, as a necessity for getting away. Theoretically, you would need space for gear, supplies and possibly for sleeping in. Even in South Korea, car camping, or «chabak» in Korean, was becoming popular as the Santa Fe was developed.
Midsize crossovers and SUVs represent the most densely populated vehicle segment in America, racking up nearly 4 million sales in 2023—and still growing—and accounting for a quarter of all light-vehicle sales. It’s easy for any of these thirty vehicles to be overlooked in the haze of cross-shopping and test driving, especially in this sector where utility, flexibility, and practicality trump styling. Years ago, we referred to these as station wagons, and they were great for road trips, with rear-facing third row seats for the little ones. Unlike steady-eddy brands like Toyota and Honda, Hyundai has decided that predictable, me-too sheetmetal is not going to move the retail needle in the right direction for its latest-generation 2024 Santa Fe, which is now available in showrooms.
The 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe's boxy new shape pays dividends on the inside, as Hyundai says that the new model has more cargo space and passenger room than before. We tested that claim for ourselves and measured exactly how much stuff fits inside the redesigned Santa Fe's cargo area. And the answer is: a lot. With all the seats folded, the 2024 Santa Fe held 34 carry-on suitcases in our testing—seven whole suitcases more than the previous-gen Santa Fe could accommodate. This bears out Hyundai's claim that the new model has 80 cubic feet of total cargo space, versus 72 cubic feet in the old model. The growth is not particularly surprising considering the 2024 Santa Fe's squared-off rear