2010 Hyundai Santa Fe First Drive Review

ALTHOUGH IT WON’T be in showrooms until December, Hyundai Australia has decided to jump the gun and launch its updated Santa Fe a month ahead of dealership deliveries.

Timed to coincide with the new Santa Fe’s involvement in the 2010 Global Green Challenge, Hyundai used the launch to highlight the car’s [...]

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HYUNDAI HAS LAUNCHED its updated Santa Fe range in Australia today, due to go on sale from December 1.

Cosmetic changes are few, with new bumpers and wheels, stylised foglight housings and new jewellery for the head and tail-lights the only major revisions.

Under the bonnet is where the big differences lie; the 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe [...]

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POWERED BY the Korean carmaker’s new R series turbo-diesel engine, two new 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe SUVs will form the thrust of Hyundai’s attack on the 2009 Global Green Car Challenge.

Offering 32 percent more power and a 10 percent reduction in emissions over the previous model, the Santa Fe SUVs will go up against [...]

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HYUNDAI HAS LAUNCHED its updated Santa Fe range in Europe and is preparing to bring the refreshed SUV range to Australia before the year is out.

Cosmetic changes are few, with new bumpers and wheels, stylised foglight housings and new jewellery for the head and tail-lights the only major revisions.

Under the bonnet though is where [...]

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THE FACE OF The 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe was unveiled to the South Korean press back in June, but so far only the one image has been offered by Hyundai.

These new spy photos offer a glimpse of the Santa Fe’s facelift, revealing the simple but stylish alterations Hyundai’s designers have brought to the company’s excellent [...]

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HYUNDAI IS BUSY tooling up its US engine plant in Montgomery to switch production from the current four-cylinder motors to more powerful and more efficient direct-injected petrol engines.

The new direct-injected mills will likely feature in upcoming versions of the US-market Santa Fe and Sonata, and output is expected to be around the 149kW mark - [...]

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THE 2009 HYUNDAI SANTA FE CRDi Elite won its share of friends at the TMR office for its pleasant interior, driving comfort, versatility and value-for-money pricing. Now, images and details of the 2010 facelift have been revealed in Korea, Hyundai’s home ground.

Only the one image has been revealed thus far, but it’s clear at [...]

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