The Hyundai Santa Cruz is an automotive oddity. It’s just a little onerous to clarify why it hasn’t been wildly profitable. Perhaps it must be. So, for its third 12 months in the marketplace, Hyundai will make simply minor tweaks to its compact pickup.
The Santa Cruz arrived in 2022, at about the identical time because the Ford Maverick. The pair have been the primary true small pickups on the American market in virtually a decade. They crammed a distinct segment that had sat unfilled for a very long time – pickups sufficiently small to be handy in city settings however nonetheless able to hauling dwelling a weekend’s price of tasks from the ironmongery shop.
One – the Maverick — rocketed to gross sales success. Ford just lately warned that it’s going to in all probability promote out of 2024 Mavericks rapidly, simply because it did in 2023 and 2022. The opposite – the Santa Cruz – has remained a footnote and a uncommon sight.
But the Santa Cruz has most of the identical virtues because the Mav, plus a for much longer guarantee. Our take a look at driver known as the 2023 Santa Cruz “an unconventional pickup truck” however “the proper truck for a lot of drivers” with its SUV-like consolation and purposeful mattress.
So Hyundai will double down for the 2024 mannequin 12 months, making few adjustments.
Gentle Off-Highway XRT Trim
The Santa Cruz positive factors a trim degree and loses a trim degree for 2024. The mid-level SEL Premium trim disappears, changed by a sporty XRT version. The XRT boasts all-season tires and scratch-resistant fender cladding to make the Santa Cruz barely extra able to mild off-roading. It additionally brings purposeful facet steps for added practicality. Darkened trim lends it new fashion, and H-Tex fake leather-based seating (however actual leather-based on the steering wheel and shift knob) lend it just a little luxurious.
All 2024 Santa Cruz fashions now get commonplace lane-keeping help with a brand new haptic suggestions system that vibrates the steering wheel to warn you you’re drifting.
2024 Hyundai Santa Cruz Pricing:
| Trim | MSRP |
| SE front-wheel drive (FWD) | $26,650 |
| SE all-wheel drive (AWD) | $28,150 |
| SEL FWD | $29,400 |
| SEL AWD | $30,900 |
| Night time AWD | $38,210 |
| XRT AWD | $39,850 |
| Restricted AWD | $41,070 |
