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First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz – Updating the Urban Adventurer

First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz – Updating the Urban Adventurer

by | Sep 10, 2024 | , , , , , , ,

The Hyundai Santa Cruz is the modern incarnation of the compact pickups wildly popular with then-young Baby Boomers a half-century ago. But it’s no retro-mobile. Santa Cruz gets a distinctive design that blends the functionality of a pickup with the decidedly modern curves of today’s Hyundai Tucson. Barely three years after the Santa Cruz made its auspicious debut, Hyundai is ready to roll out a mid-cycle update. It tweaks the truck’s distinctive design, adds a variety of new features and fixes some of the original model’s problems. Here’s our review of the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz.

Think EVs Are Expensive? Check the Cost of the Average a Plug-In Hybrid

Think EVs Are Expensive? Check the Cost of the Average a Plug-In Hybrid

by | Sep 5, 2024 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As the growth of EV sales has slowed in recent months, automakers have begun looking at electrified alternatives, many betting that plug-in hybrids will become a “bridge” technology for motorists not quite ready to commit to an EV. But if you think battery-electric vehicles are expensive you may be shocked by what the typical PHEV costs – an average of more than $60,000. Then again, there are a few surprisingly affordable one.

August Brought Unexpectedly Strong Auto Sales – Boosted by EVs

August Brought Unexpectedly Strong Auto Sales – Boosted by EVs

by | Sep 4, 2024 | , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Solid sales gains in August point to a robust finish for the year as fear of a recessions in the auto business recede, interest rate cut looms on the horizon, and buyers take a closer look at hybrids and newer EVs. Sales of new cars and trucks continued to gain...

First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Tucson Takes Aim at Toyota, Honda

First Drive: 2025 Hyundai Tucson Takes Aim at Toyota, Honda

by | Sep 4, 2024 | , , , , , , , , , , ,

It may trail the leaders, Toyota and Hyundai, in the compact crossover market, but Hyundai is determined to give them chase and, based on the updated 2025 Tucson, the competitors need to be looking over their shoulders. Headlight.News spent time checking out the Korean CUV and files this review.

Hyundai May Build the N Vision 74, a Hydrogen-Powered Retro-Rocket, After All

Hyundai May Build the N Vision 74, a Hydrogen-Powered Retro-Rocket, After All

by | Sep 3, 2024 | , , , , , , , , , ,

They’ll build it. They’ll build it not. The fate of the retro-futuristic Hyundai N Vision 74 concept has been a source of constant debate since it was first unveiled in July 2022. The automaker subsequently insisted the show car was never going to see the light of day. Now, however, it’s starting to look like a production version really is in the works, at least based on what came out during the automaker’s latest Investor Day event.