Hyundai Santa Cruz News
Hyundai Santa Cruz pricing revealed: Would a $32k starting price tempt you into brand's first "lifestyle" ute?
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By Andrew Chesterton · 14 Jul 2021
The Hyundai Santa Cruz might be smaller than vehicles like the Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger, but it's not much cheaper, with the brand revealing an International starting price of US$23,990.In terms of a straight currency conversion, that's around $32,222
How Hyundai can beat Toyota and Mazda: Santa Cruz, Tucson Hybrid and other new models the South Korean brand needs to go to number one
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By Stephen Ottley · 23 May 2021
Hyundai is on a mission. The South Korean brand is in the middle of a new product offensive that will see it launch 18 new models in an 18-month period.
Big news for Kia and Hyundai's new dual-cab ute: Why planned 2022 launch for Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger rival is "not going to happen"
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By Andrew Chesterton · 21 May 2021
Kia's (and thus Hyundai's) new ute won't appear in 2022 as originally thought, with the brand in Australia telling CarsGuide the new model is now more likely to turn up in the "next couple of years" - if at all....The brand's tone in Australia has shifted
Holden and Ford Australia invented the car-based ute, so why can't we buy the Hyundai Santa Cruz, Ford Maverick, Honda Ridgeline and Fiat Strada that are their spiritual successors?
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By Byron Mathioudakis · 02 May 2021
It should be taught at primary schools as essential Australian cultural history.In the early 1930s, a Victorian farmer wrote to Ford requesting a new type of pick-up - one that could take his wife to church on Sundays and pigs to market on Mondays.It was
Hyundai's new ute is finally here! But can the 2022 Santa Cruz challenge the Toyota HiLux, Ford Ranger, Mitsubishi Triton and Isuzu D-Max?
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By Justin Hilliard · 16 Apr 2021
More than six years after its concept was revealed, the new Hyundai Santa Cruz ute has made its big debut
2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz shaping up as the 'segment-shattering' Tucson ute you thought you'd never see
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By Justin Hilliard · 01 Apr 2021
The Hyundai ute is nearly here. No, not that one. The body-on-frame model is still in the works, but the unibody Santa Cruz is just two weeks away from its big debut. And yes, it’s based on the soon-to-be-released fourth-generation Tucson mid-size SUV
Hyundai ute's diesel engine would dominate HiLux and Ranger: All-new dual-cab could be crowned Australia's most powerful ute!
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By Andrew Chesterton · 28 Mar 2021
With Toyota dragging its feet on its GR HiLux, Hyundai (and Kia) is looking like it will beat it to market with a tough-as-nails dual-cab ute complete with a thumping diesel engine that will shade everything from the Ford Ranger Raptor to the Mitsubishi T
Is the baby Ford Ranger the next big thing? Why lifestyle utes look set for a comeback with Ford Maverick and Hyundai Santa Cruz leading the way
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By Stephen Ottley · 31 Jan 2021
A ute crossed with an SUV - it could be the perfect marriage in the automotive landscape of 2021.
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Will Hyundai's first dual-cab ute be an instant hit? Lessons the brand can learn from the Sonata, Excel and Genesis GV80
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By David Morley · 05 Dec 2020
If you're old enough you might remember the very first Hyundai Sonata to land here in 1989.It was, without being unfair to it, awful.A reverse-engineered narrow-body Mitsubishi, the Sonata gave very little indication of what was to come from Hyundai speci
Why Australia's case for Hyundai's Santa Cruz 2021 ute rests on the new Palisade's success - but is it a modern Subaru Brumby or a softer Toyota HiLux?
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By Byron Mathioudakis · 06 Aug 2020
The end of a two decade wait may be in sight!Remember the 1980s Subaru Brumby and 2000s Proton Jumbuck?