Top 10 'across the range' features on 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe | Auto Expert John Cadogan

Below are the top ten reasons why I decided to recommend the

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Santa Fame model I owned as one of the best seven-seater SUVs available. I'm John Cadogan from Auto Expert, the place where Ozzie new car buyers save thousands. your next new cars, contact me on the website to find out This is the end of my week-long evaluation of the active Santa Fe that would be the base model in the

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and why it is important for car critics to review the base. model, as well as the fully loaded version, is because it's down here in the cheap seats where you can make a real assessment of value across the

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What a lot of manufacturers do, obviously, is remove everything from the cheap seats so they can economically and rationally go out and sell that vehicle to fleet buyers, like government agencies and major corporations, and they can also launch advertising campaigns that go like this from twenty nine nine ninety. You drive right into the dealership expecting to spend twenty nine nine ninety and then the whole process involves just talking yourself into a few thousand here, a few thousand there and a few thousand here again and suddenly you walk out of the dealership having Signed on the dotted line for forty-five thousand dollars or something like that. and you say, how did that happen?

That does not happen in this range of models. The base model is very well equipped, so let's get into those reasons. If they didn't already have a technical name for adaptive cruise control, they could just call it magic. because that's essentially what it is a radar unit on the pointy end that activates when you activate the adaptive cruise and then watches the traffic state of the road ahead when you encounter some congestion, let's say it's set to One Hundred and Ten Trucks they go 90 degrees in front of you, then the car

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matically slows down and maintains a safe distance if necessary while congestion is ahead and then when overtaking it resumes normal programming and reverses up to one hundred and ten KS per hour you can adjust the following distance using the switch on the steering wheel between two preset limits, you can go back a little further or you can get a little closer within that safe following distance, so that's nice.

It's nice, but keep in mind that if you haven't used adaptive cruise control, it's a bit like flying business class, easy to go forward, very hard to come back, you won't want to go back to standard cruise control and offer it on the Base model of a seven-seat SUV for 40-year-olds is virtually unheard of in the

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industry, making it a real plus for the Santa Fe Active. The premium engine in the range is this, the 2.2 diesel, and yes, you can get the 2.4 petrol with 6 speeds. automatic in active mode too, but trust me on this, the diesel is the one to get, if you can afford it, it will cost you another $3,000, but luckily the premium engine is available on the base model and there are many model ranges where that just won't work. is the case, so I know there are consumer reservations about diesel engines at the moment, especially considering the bad press diesel has had over the last few years and I'm looking at your Volkswagen.

Thank you very much for that. Don't know. I get some complaints about diesel particulate filter problems with this and a 2.2 diesel engine. It's been on the market for quite some time now and B, there's no suggestion they're going to ban diesels in Australia. What I would suggest about diesels is that they offer enormous power at low revs, they are about 25 per cent more fuel efficient, you know, for an equivalent amount of driving, so you have to consider both and they do 400, this At least it delivers 440 Newton meters in a fairly wide and wide range of revolutions.

On the road you won't find too many problems that 440 Newton meters won't solve. Safety is very important to car buyers and it's hard to get a chance on that active Santa Fe, very well equipped on that front. It has autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection, rear cross-traffic alert, blind spot monitoring, lane keeping assist, there's also a reversing camera in every model, it's easy to forget that entry-level model buyers They are usually second class citizens when it comes to security, but that is not the case here and every time I talk about this kind of thing as if it is a great advantage for security, I always get a backlash, someone tells me I, Great Bro, looking over your shoulder, that's the nanny state, I want my freedom, right?

Well, I'd put it to you this way if you're one of those complainers, driving is the type of activity where 99.9% is no pass, not when it comes to avoiding disasters you have to do it one hundred percent of the time. time, so let's say that over the next 10,000 days some event unfolds where you're not paying as much attention as you should and you get this confluence of worst-case scenarios, the Swiss cheese theory, if you listen to Professor James reason about this the father In disaster investigation, all the holes line up and a disaster just rolls along nicely, if one of these technologies just alerts you at that moment that something is wrong and you do something you otherwise wouldn't have done, you take evasive action or you don't. you do.

If you don't change lanes, brake early, or simply run over that kid in the driveway or that grandma with a shopping cart behind you, then I'm telling you, all that technology that could make Neagle doubt you and stay stuck. a small knife between your ribs from time to time and it bothers you to no end and you are susceptible to that irritation at that moment when that mess is put aside. I would suggest that all that irritation is suddenly worth it. Of all those safety technologies that I just mentioned, there is one that really bothers me from time to time, it is the lane keeping assist and in particular it is the active lane keeping assist and I have to say that in general I have no problem. or, for that matter, keeping the car in its intended lane because I use the high-tech miracle of paying attention when driving.

I think it's a moral imperative anyway, it can be quite disconcerting the first time you drive a car with this mode active. Lane keep assist works because the servo motor that is normally used for power assist actually grabs the steering rack and moves the steering wheel in an attempt to help you get the car and keep it in the intended lane and occasionally I end up in this type of war. of wills with the lane keep assist active where I want it to be somewhere and it wants it to be somewhere else and it inevitably loses because I turn it off and that's pretty easy to do, luckily there's a simple button that you just press down there. and active lane keeping assist activates and the reason I point this out correctly is because these driver assistance technologies will increasingly activate by default every time you restart the car and that will be the result of programs of crash tests as and chap. and the other final cap authorities around the world, what they are going to require for 5 star certification is that these technologies are active at startup by default and that way if you want to turn them off, you will have to turn them off.

Fortunately, while you don't have to delve into a menu system or take the car to a dealership or anything like that, if you want to be in complete control of the course you want to plot between those white lines, then all you have to do is thing to do is bend over and turn the damn thing off, plus, in my opinion, at least a full-size alloy spare wheel and tire, at least in a place like Australia, where you could be several hundred kilometers from where you could get a spare tire. or a repair in these situations you know that a spare wheel and full size tire means you can get straight back on the road and drive at the maximum legally permitted speed, in comparison most space savers are limited to ATK per hour, not only that.

They are narrow, they don't grip the road as well as a standard tire and this is a total liability if you are on a dirt road or if, God forbid, you are towing a 2,000 kilogram trailer, which you could possibly be doing exactly with this car and that is why you need to look at the spare tire situation if you intend to do any of those things, travel to remote areas or tow heavy objects or both, because if you are overloaded with a spare tire space-saving spare part that can completely affect your recovery plan and In my opinion, it is also very dangerous to enter the highway with a limit of one hundred and ten K per hour and mix with trucks and all kinds of people who are not paying attention and They are potentially there to approach you from behind at closing speed. thirty K per hour in the wet at night, whatever it is, this is a bad look for safety and luckily with the Santa Fe you don't have to worry because the access here to Row 3 has improved dramatically and there is now a button to press. at the base of the seat in row 2 on the curb side, so you open the door, you press the button, the path to the seat slides forward and that gives you access here to row 3, so it's a big improvement if you have these seats deployed, you've just gone to the shops, bought something big and bulky, then there are also buttons behind in the cargo compartment that allow you to fold one or both seats forward to give you access to those big things. that you just bought, which is good now as far as comfort here in row 3, it's fine for short trips.

I don't think anyone is going to high-five and say, yeah, this is my seat on the other side of the Nullarbor, bring it. Clearly that's not what these seats are designed for, but you know, for your kids, the friends, the sports trips, the endless family logistics and all that, the people, the friends, the relatives that you have to carry, they're pretty good and It really adds to the versatility of a vehicle like this and when you fold down the third row of seats, the cargo compartment is cavernous, by my calculations, as maybe five bodies could fit in here below the level of the cargo blind and the large and fat western carnivores. not those vegan horses, there is also good news for towing with Santa Fe. 2000 kilos is the absolute towing limit and the diesel engine with 8-speed transmission is going to eat it for breakfast, the problem you can find here in Australia It's the disconnect between our trailers and their specifications and those of the rest of the world because the rest of the world rolls with a 5% down load, that is, 2000 kilos on the trailer with 100 kilos on the ball, but here in Shitsville we It's more likely to roll with 10% and that will be 200 kilos in the ball as it comes off the production line.

Santa Fe comes with a 100 kilo discharge limit and you shouldn't exceed that, but because this disconnect exists, the engineers behind it and I've done everything possible to up the ante. You can buy the genuine charging assist kit, which is quite affordable. It's basically just a replacement set of variable rate rear springs and that ups the ante to 150 kilos on the tow ball. I highly recommend you do that, if you are planning on towing something heavy, the ride quality is not affected because the variable rate springs only increase their rate when you add that extra weight to the tow ball and if you get a tow light Let's say a 1500 kilo trailer, then 150 kilos on the ball will be fine if you want to tow 2 tons you will have to look for a trailer that is designed only to exert 150 kilos on the ball or you will have to choose another vehicle and while we are talking about all that Crazy engineering down there, let's pause momentarily on the new 8 speed transmission, it comes only with the diesel engine and is incredibly smart, knowing exactly when to shift and when not to in many different driving situations.

You'll stick to the gear you know when you're going downhill with your foot off the accelerator, many automatic transmissions just default to a higher and higher gear and the car tends to pull away and then you have to hit the brakes. which disables cruise control if you've invoked it, not this transmission, it's very good at detecting the slope you're on and choosing the right gear, without skidding out, it shifts nice and smooth when you're driving nice and smooth, and if We're leasing it, it just holds up well too, so it's a really good one-size-fits-all proposition for all the different driving situations you might find yourself in and it's a real step up from the six-speed transmission.

On the previous model I'm afraid I've kept you too long but there's just one more thing and that's this driving mode selection, which you don't always get on the cheap seats, you also don't get the Comfort Sport and Eco modes which areas they are. The sound and the selection between them change the operating parameters of things like the automatic transmission, the steering and the all-wheel drive system in sport mode, for example, after 50 percent of the tractive effort is diverted rearward to maximize traction in case of strong acceleration in comfort mode. that drops to 35% and in Eco mode the vehicle defaults to essentially being a front driver to maximize fuel efficiency.

The steering weight also changes when you do that, obviously eco mode is light, comfort is light. Sport is a bit heavier so you can modify the driving experience in a very selectable way and you can do it methodically, you can change it depending on whether you're in traffic or whether you're on your favorite part of the winding road and you can certainly have his and her friendliness designed into the unique package and incorporating all of that into the base model is a real plus too. I'm John Cadogan, if he's looking for a 7 seat SUV. I hope this tour of the Santa Fe active has been at least helpful, if you have any questions you can contact me through the website, please subscribe to my YouTube channel, if you enjoyed this report there are many more like it to come , press the bill notification icon and I will pester you endlessly.

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