AUTO REVIEW: Hyundai Santa Fe pushes further upmarket - Wicked Local Rochester
Loiter by the back of your 2015 Santa Fe Limited – chatting with a neighbor, say – and you may hear a double beep, a click and a whirr, and you’ll have to step aside as the liftgate opens by itself. Hyundai has borrowed the Ford Escape’s automated rear hatch and upped the ante slightly: Instead of waving a foot under the bumper, to alert a sensor, just walk up to the Santa Fe with the electronic key in your pocket, and maybe a double armload... This is Hyundai’s first power liftgate, and of course it operates by pushbutton, too. (Maybe now Ford is programming its liftgate to answer to “Open sesame. This has been Hyundai’s mantra since day one – More for less. – and heaven knows there’s no shortage of features on this particular Santa Fe, an all-wheel-drive Limited model with the Ultimate Package. The price is a breath-taking $41,695. Then again, a Ford Edge with much the same equipment, including a similarly enormous skylight roof, costs five or six grand more yet (but has new adaptive safety systems, slightly more power and better gas... (A bench seat is also available for the second row, upping the capacity to seven. ) The two rearmost seats could be reached via a pass-through between the two middle seats, or by scootching one of the middle seats forward and folding it down. Source: rochester.wickedlocal.com
