Start with what the Hyundai Santa Cruz is: a 4-door pickup with Petrol engine, built from 2021, in the decade the industry is turning electric. What it meant takes a little longer.
Where it came from
The Hyundai Santa Cruz is a four-door compact pickup truck manufactured and marketed by Hyundai. Released in 2021 for the 2022 model year, the Santa Cruz is the first four-door pickup truck sold by Hyundai in the North American market.
The vehicle is based on the Tucson crossover SUV, and uses a unibody chassis design. Industry analysts expected the Santa Cruz to attract car or crossover SUV buyers instead of people who have owned a larger, traditional pickup truck. Hyundai is to reportedly discontinue production of the Santa Cruz in 2026.
Under the skin
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 3704 -. Drive goes through a 8-speed A8F27 automatic / 8-speed D8LF1 dual-clutch automatic. The wheelbase is 3005 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
In the Hyundai line-up the Hyundai Santa Cruz has a clear place: the factory was Montgomery, Alabama (HMMA), United States. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Kia EV6, the Tesla Model Y, the Nissan Z. Nearby in the Hyundai catalogue sit the Hyundai Accent WRC and the Hyundai Accent.
Owning one today
Buying one now means $34,800–$61,000 for a typical example, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,371–$5,223 a year. Insurance sits around $1,700–$2,640 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.