Despite the suspension being firm enough to keep it flat under duress in corners, the ride is smooth and crossover comfortable. Its road manners are agreeable, and its handling is surprisingly sharp for something with a truck bed. To show us what the Santa Cruz is capable of, we drove up to Northern California to explore the coast and redwoods in, predictably, Santa Cruz.Įssentially, the Santa Cruz is built upon a modified "upscaled" version of the Tucson chassis and drives much like the slightly smaller SUV. Suspension tuned for light off-road work and available all-wheel-drive are also weapons in the Santa Cruz's arsenal. Sharing bones and a modicum of style with the all-new Tucson, the Santa Cruz is powered by either a naturally aspirated or turbocharged 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine generating up to 281 horsepower and 311 lb-ft in the latter. Designed in California and built in America, the 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz is a comfortable five-seater crossover with a truck bed for those with an active lifestyle who partake in adventures and hobbies where you don't want to put wet or dirty stuff in the back of a crossover like camping, hiking, surfing, scuba diving, mountain biking, canoeing, spelunking, or anything else you can think of involving wet, dusty, or muddy gear. At its core, it's a crossover with a truck bed, but, unlike the Honda Ridgeline, it doesn't try to compete with body-on-frame trucks, and will instead face tough competition from the new Ford Maverick. Spiritual ancestors of the all-new Hyundai Santa Cruz include the El Camino and Subaru Brat, but, the Santa Cruz is different from those in one key area. That's exactly the case for the Hyundai Santa Cruz, the all-new entrant and founder of a new small truck segment in the USA. Once in a while, an automaker will come to the conclusion that a truck doesn't have to be a heavy-duty work-biased machine and do something completely different.
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