Best I’ve owned
I bought the 2025 Hyundai Santa Fe non plug in hybrid as a practical purchase. I am in outside sales and spend a lot of time in the car. On average my commute is a total of 3 hours every day. Many days it’s even longer. My criteria were the following. 1) comfortable to sit in for long hours 2) economical without being inconvenient, 3) family friendly (ideal to have 3rd tow seats), 4) drives and handles for well, and ideally something I didn’t hate the way it looks. What I got has exceeded my expectations. The drive on the car is excellent. It has great acceleration when you need it, but it also handles well. It does feel heavy but brakes and corners very well considering. The ride is smooth and quiet. Maybe the smoothest feeling car I’ve ever driven and my father was a car dealer so I’ve driven a lot of different cars over the years. Fuel economy is one that really surprised me. General freeway driving I get around 35mpg. But when it’s bumper to bumper traffic it’s not uncommon for me to average over 50mpg on a hour and a half commute. So far I’ve put 32,000 miles on the car and haven’t had any problems. If there is anything I could change on the car I think it would only be that they used better quality leather. It hasn’t wore out or anything but from the day I purchased the car you can tell it’s not very high quality. You can see on the upper portion of the seats where the leather looks wrinkled. I attribute that to low quality product being used. The active cruise control and lane assist is excellent. I almost would call the car self driving other than the fact that the car monitors your eyes to make sure you paying attention. Lastly I’d say the car is significantly spacious on the interior considering the smaller exterior dimensions and the fact that it has a 3rd row seat. Feels like your driving a small SUV but with the space of a large suv. I don’t love the appearance but it’s better than a lot of other SUV’s.
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