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- How's it going folks?

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I'm here today in the
2024 Hyundai Santa Fe,

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doing something that
no other Santa Fe owner

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will probably ever do,
and that, my friends,

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is take it off-roading.

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Hyundai set us up on a
nice little off-road course

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to let us kind of experience

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the Santa Fe's off road prowess.

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We're here to find out if
its Land Rover Defender looks

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actually match up with its capability.

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We're here today in a XRT model,

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which is their off-road version.

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I'll put the price right there,

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right there, in the
40s, so really not bad.

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Santa Fe starts in the mid 30s,

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all the way up to the top, Calligraphy,

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which is the other car I've been driving,

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but what do you care about
seeing me drive a mid-sized,

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sorry, compact, technically,

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a compact SUV on road.

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You know how that's gonna be.

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This is slightly more
interesting than that.

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Now, as standard, all Santa Fes come

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with a 2.5 liter turbocharged motor

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that makes about 270 horsepower

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and about 310 pound-feet of torque.

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Those aren't exactly amazing
numbers, but they're enough

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to move this very hefty beast
along the road fairly well.

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(vehicle whirring)

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Bee!

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It can move pretty good, that it can.

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(upbeat music)

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This little muddy rutted area here.

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Ooh, look at this, guys,

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up, up, up, up, up and away.

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God damn, okay.

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So they want me to stop here

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and put on four-wheel drive lock.

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Do that with the click of a button.

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Four-wheel drive's now
locked and we're going again.

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Oh yeah, we're at quite an angle.

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I'm sure it's not showing up on camera

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'cause off-roading never looks as dramatic

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as it actually is on camera,
but this is real impressive.

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It's a little Billy
goat going up this road.

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(upbeat music)

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Really rough surface, so I
know you're bouncing around.

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So am I, we're bouncing together.

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Let's talk size real quick.

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Now, some of you might be thinking

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why did Hyundai make the Santa Fe so big?

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Why does it have a third row, as standard?

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Don't they already have the Palisade?

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Yes and yes,

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but this car, while it might not look it

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because of its very boxy proportions,

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is, like, six inches
shorter than a Palisade,

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and that third row, it's tight.

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It's tight, it's for kids,

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but it's nice that they included it.

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You know, they didn't have to do that.

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The two-and-a-half liter four
cylinder comes as standard

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with an eight-speed dual
clutch transmission,

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which has worked really well.

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Upshifts and downshifts using
the steering column mount,

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the steering-wheel-mounted paddles

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are really nice and crisp.

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It's honestly better than you'd think

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for something like this.

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Hello, I don't know where
those guys are coming from.

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It's not my business.

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Ooh, big jump.

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(upbeat music)

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But all in all, it's
just a really solid car

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that really makes Hyundai...

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Oh, everyone wave to the cameraman.

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Hello, cameraman, hello.

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It's just a really solid car

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that, for 50 grand, or in the
mid-40s, like this guy is,

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it's really a value.

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I mean, you know,

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it's a classic auto journalist hyperbole,

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but it punches above its weight class.

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This is a much nicer
car than it needed to be

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and it looks fantastic.

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Now, this car's already on sale,

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so you can go to your dealer and get one,

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and I'm sure you've
probably seen a few of them

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popping up and down on your main street

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by cool, trendy people,

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and if you're like me,

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you probably notice it every single time.

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I mean, what a good
looking piece of design,

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even if it looks like
another piece of design.

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Oh, let's turn on our hill descent.

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Hill descent is on, and we
are descending said hill,

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very, very slowly.

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We can go a little fast
than that, I think.

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(upbeat music)

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♪ We're running down that hill ♪

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♪ Na-Na-Na-Na-Na ♪

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♪ Dum-Dum-Da, ra-da ♪

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The XRT is the only one

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that comes with all-wheel
drive as standard.

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On every other model, including
the top line Calligraphy,

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that's still, I believe, an $1,800 option.

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And, I mean, I guess it
depends where you live,

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but it's one that'll probably be useful

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if it snows, and snow's actually
the only off-roadish mode

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that it comes with.

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Everything else is, you got my modes,

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normal, sport, and snow.

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The XRT comes with chunky tires.

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We're sliding, we're sliding
down the hill, oh my god.

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The XRT comes with chunkier
tires, smaller wheels

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that are meant to, you
know, be more off-roading

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than the Calligraphy
and it's 21-inch wheels.

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And I'm not gonna say that
this thing is as good off road

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as, like, some sort of Land Rover,

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or, you know, a 4Runner or anything,

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but it's way better than
it has any right to be.

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I mean, it's gonna be
such a small percentage

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of Santa Fe owners who are
gonna take their car off road.

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And I really hazard a guess
that almost none of them

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will do anything, even a quarter
as extreme as any of this.

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It'll mostly be, you
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and in the snow, and gravel
roads, nothing crazy,

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but it's nice to see that
when the going gets tough,

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the Santa Fe XRT gets going.

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Thanks so much for watching,

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and I'll see you on the next one.