Fourth Hyundai Santa Fe

The fourth-generation Santa Fe will be available in Europe from September this year, compared to which no one has seen before: Hyundai has just released just a mysteriously shady photo of the car’s nose.

Of course, we can read a lot about this: the car breaks with the design language of the brand used so far and continues on the line of the new generation i20. The cooling mask only preserves its former hexagonal value, in return covering almost the entire surface of the nose. The daytime running lights take on the T-shape used by Volvo, but vertically: where we’d expect the headlights, there’s the horizontal stem of the T, the actual headlights sitting on either side of the vertical stem, making the Santa Fe look a bit spider-like.

Overall, you can’t deny its kinship with the Hyundai Palisade (in our gallery) on the North American market, but it’s all the more modern, sophisticated, European - not to mention it’s not chassis, but self-supporting. Moreover, it is based on Hyundai’s third-generation floorboard, the first of the brand’s recreational vehicles to receive.

No information is available on the dimensions yet, it is expected to be slightly larger and much wider than its predecessor (4770 x 1890 x 1703 mm; 2765 mm wheelbase). On the other hand, it’s sure to be more economical than that: you get a plug-in hybrid powertrain. Hyundai also mentions a standard hybrid powertrain, which in their interpretation is certainly a 48-volt mild hybrid unit with brake energy recovery and an advanced start-stop automaton.

(Source: vezess.hu / photo: pixabay.com)