Hyundai Santa Cruz...

[Murphy Slaw]

My wife is looking at them (AWD) to replace her Jeep Patriot. Just her daily driver, grocery getter, in and out of our hunting cabin, just light duty stuff.

I kinda like it.

She's always wanted an Outback, but they have gone CVT, so that's out.

Now she thinks she needs a truck. Well, sorta !

Never owned a Hyundai, whatchathink?

 

[diabetiktaco]

If it suits your needs I'm sure it'll be a great car!

 

[Murphy Slaw]

If it suits your needs I'm sure it'll be a great car!

Her.

I'm all Mopar.

All the time.

 

[diabetiktaco]

Her.

I'm all Mopar.

All the time.

Ah, then you aren't worried about reliability anyway. (Kidding, but had to say it)

 

[danwyandt]

My wife is looking at them (AWD) to replace her Jeep Patriot. Just her daily driver, grocery getter, in and out of our hunting cabin, just light duty stuff.

I kinda like it.

She's always wanted an Outback, but they have gone CVT, so that's out.

Now she thinks she needs a truck. Well, sorta !

Never owned a Hyundai, whatchathink?

My wife had the SantaFe, bought new in 2004. Only issues were the typical maintenance /wear items. We just sold it 3 months ago for $1500, running great with no issues at 383,000 miles. Probable the most reliable and least expensive /mile car we have ever owned.

-Dan

 

[Ubiety]

Have heard good things about Hyundais over the last few years. Check out TFL on YouTube, they have a bunch of Santa Cruz videos and looks like they bought one for a long term test vehicle. Must be something to that as they spend their own money on their long term cars/trucks.

 

[reaver]

Don't have a Santa Cruz, but my wife has a 2014 Hyundai Veloster. She bought it used with 30k on it, and it just rolled over 100k last month. She's had ZERO trips to the shop to fix anything. She's also really good about keeping up on the maintenance. This is her second Hyundai, and the first one made it to about 235k before it started having transmission issues (I don't think she ever had the fluid changed on that car).

I know some of the newer engines have some major failure points.

As cool as it is to be an early adopter of a somewhat unique vehicle, I firmly believe it's always a good idea to wait a few years until manufacturers work out the bugs. Especially with covid and the chip shortages wreaking havoc on supply lines right now.

 

[Murphy Slaw]

As cool as it is to be an early adopter of a somewhat unique vehicle, I firmly believe it's always a good idea to wait a few years until manufacturers work out the bugs. Especially with covid and the chip shortages wreaking havoc on supply lines right now.

It's my wife.

She's probably already changed her mind...

 

[Ubiety]

She's probably already changed her mind...

I am sooooooo glad that my wife changed her mind on the Bronco Sport ;) Now she likes the "big Bronco" but already got something else.