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Hi folks,
Well it ain't got a bed, but it's approximately a stretched to 6ft bed Maverick with a cap on. The Santa Fe is listing at $45k for the Preferred Hybrid trim in Canada and gets...
ACC
AWD
Drive modes including ice, mud and sand.
... among the rest of everything you expect and everything I want. Gas mileage from this hybrid seems to split the difference between the Ecoboost and hybrid Mavericks. Outside the official figures, careful footwork seems to get 40mpg out of them where it would get 50 on the Mav. So it loses a point or two on that. But on the other hand the offroad modes seem to put it halfway into FX4/Tremor territory. Some vids make it look like it's dealing with stuff that plain jane AWD mavs are struggling with. It's not close to GOAT or Trail rated capable though.
Anyway, comparing it with a capped Mav, you get 50% more space behind second row, 6'6" I think it was, and the space behind the 3rd seat if you have it up is same as Mav with a roller tonneau or something like that in the way, a little shorter than full bed. It comes with a rack on top standard also.
What's making it hard is even "giving" the Mav $1000 for the extra official towing, (Though this chassis equals it with other engines) that I still can't find a way to get an AWD, hybrid, ACC equipped Mav within $3000 of it. i.e. with the perfect combo that leaves out unwanted extras, it's still a list price 49,500 Maverick Lariat AWD in Canadian pricing, and finding those is hard, they're getting ordered with superfluous moonroofs, bed accessories you can add later, and the "trade $10 of vinyl and paint for $20 of chrome and we'll charge you thousands for the privilege" Black Appearance Package. So there's practically nothing around me that's less than 51k .... and this is not even counting that you've basically got a "free cap" with a larger SUV, even though it's less flexible due to permanence.
If Hyundai decided to bend the roof 90 degrees down at the C pillar, credit the loss of 3rd row fixings and spend the money saved on only half a tailgate on the bed lining, then they'd be offering a "Top trim Lariat" with a 6ft bed for $10k less than Ford, and that would be much fiercer competition than the Santa Cruz given it seems to do a bit more offroad.
Anyway, if there remains no way to get a Hybrid AWD with ACC for significantly less than 50k in my market (keep reloading the offers page, they're basically giving away nothing on Mav in Canada right now.) then I guess this Hyundai is my backup... and I think these look better than the Broncos for being designed "in the same vein" as it were.
BTW I know their motors are splodey, but their better warranty means I can drive it a longish while before worrying about it.
Well it ain't got a bed, but it's approximately a stretched to 6ft bed Maverick with a cap on. The Santa Fe is listing at $45k for the Preferred Hybrid trim in Canada and gets...
ACC
AWD
Drive modes including ice, mud and sand.
... among the rest of everything you expect and everything I want. Gas mileage from this hybrid seems to split the difference between the Ecoboost and hybrid Mavericks. Outside the official figures, careful footwork seems to get 40mpg out of them where it would get 50 on the Mav. So it loses a point or two on that. But on the other hand the offroad modes seem to put it halfway into FX4/Tremor territory. Some vids make it look like it's dealing with stuff that plain jane AWD mavs are struggling with. It's not close to GOAT or Trail rated capable though.
Anyway, comparing it with a capped Mav, you get 50% more space behind second row, 6'6" I think it was, and the space behind the 3rd seat if you have it up is same as Mav with a roller tonneau or something like that in the way, a little shorter than full bed. It comes with a rack on top standard also.
What's making it hard is even "giving" the Mav $1000 for the extra official towing, (Though this chassis equals it with other engines) that I still can't find a way to get an AWD, hybrid, ACC equipped Mav within $3000 of it. i.e. with the perfect combo that leaves out unwanted extras, it's still a list price 49,500 Maverick Lariat AWD in Canadian pricing, and finding those is hard, they're getting ordered with superfluous moonroofs, bed accessories you can add later, and the "trade $10 of vinyl and paint for $20 of chrome and we'll charge you thousands for the privilege" Black Appearance Package. So there's practically nothing around me that's less than 51k .... and this is not even counting that you've basically got a "free cap" with a larger SUV, even though it's less flexible due to permanence.
If Hyundai decided to bend the roof 90 degrees down at the C pillar, credit the loss of 3rd row fixings and spend the money saved on only half a tailgate on the bed lining, then they'd be offering a "Top trim Lariat" with a 6ft bed for $10k less than Ford, and that would be much fiercer competition than the Santa Cruz given it seems to do a bit more offroad.
Anyway, if there remains no way to get a Hybrid AWD with ACC for significantly less than 50k in my market (keep reloading the offers page, they're basically giving away nothing on Mav in Canada right now.) then I guess this Hyundai is my backup... and I think these look better than the Broncos for being designed "in the same vein" as it were.
BTW I know their motors are splodey, but their better warranty means I can drive it a longish while before worrying about it.
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Don't get me wrong, I think having a bed would be neat, but not neat enough that I want to be paying through the nose for a dubious privilege when I've gotta do stuff (caps, racks) to mitigate it's disadvantages.... even if it's "flexible" in how you solve those problems.
