The two big things that screw me on gas mileage are that I have a lead foot and love to put it in sport mode which gives the turbos more of a workout at the low end, and that I live someplace with a base altitude of 4,500 feet with a fairly significant hill between me and literally anything else.

I’ve never felt limited by the handling in my SFS. If I really want to have fun, I throw it in sport mode and that really does change things up, but more in terms of shifting and off the line performance. It does tighten up the wheel a little, too.

Hyundai is weird about that. It’s sometimes listed as a different trim level and sometimes as a whole other model. It made research rough last year. But really, the two cars are about 90% identical so it didn’t matter. Just change the looks a little and add 8 inches.

Your Volvo is also lower to the ground, 25% lighter and tuned completely differently.

On trips like that, I can get around 28 out of the turbo model of the Santa Fe Sport with the AWD. Around town, I get around 20-21.

I think this review just about perfectly captures how I’ve felt about the Santa Fe Sport my boyfriend and I bought last May right after these models came out. (Yes, they were selling a 2017 model in the first half of 2016)

The one thing I’m concerned about over the long haul with our Santa Fe Sport is all the electronics and features holding up. They feel pretty solid so far, and we’re almost a year into ownership without having anything fail or fall apart (with the exception of a tiny plastic cover over the screw holding in the…

For me it definitely was. We could probably have shopped around and looked at something like the X3, or an Audi Q3, but between the longer warranty period and knowing that in the future repair bills would be a lot higher because German it felt like a smarter move to just get a fully loaded Santa Fe Sport and not feel…

I think it fits pretty well in ours, the only problem I have with it (one of my small issues with the car) is that it really, really needs more controls. Having play/pause and back/forward nav buttons for the audio system would be a HUGE improvement.

We have the 2.0T of this model and I think the engine compartment is a little trickier than the 2.4, but it should be fine to work on. We’ve got our fingers crossed that it holds up, but that’s why we bought the extended 10/100k bumper to bumper warranty.

Somehow, the Edge did not feel anywhere near as large as those numbers make it sound. It felt positively cramped last year when we checked it out versus the Santa Fe Sport we ended up buying.

I can give you a few reasons why we made the choice we did to buy one of these last year.

Of all the (extremely few) faults I’ve found with our Santa Fe Sport, I’d say the fuel tank being so small is definitely the biggest one. I can live with poor fuel economy, but having to fill up so frequently is rather annoying. But, it’s a sacrifice worth making in our case because none of the other options really…

My boyfriend and I bought one of these Santa Fe Sport models last year (ultimate, AWD, turbo) and have been extremely happy with it. We don’t like the Subaru dash layout or the infotainment/electronics, and a car with a warranty that actually lasts the length of time we’re making payments on it is critical.

I was highly amused at that, there were so many Santa Fe models in that show it felt like one long ad. But I had to laugh when the rental they had in the section in China was super base.

After 20+ years of building PCs, I think I’m increasingly convinced that the fear of static electricity is a prank being pulled on people by someone from the 1980's. I’ve never used a wrist strap, and never seen a computer that was damaged during the build process by static.

Ripped out the steering column and wheel from my ‘84 Dodge B250 van and replaced it with one from a newer model minivan. 90% the same part, but about 90% less slop.

I’m going to agree with this with one big caveat. If you’re a business of any appreciable size, you still may want an antivirus/firewall solution if for no other reason than centralized management and monitoring. I do IT support for a midsized independent optometrist, and am extremely happy with the software I picked…

Ha, nope. This is from back when the idea of a limited nuclear war was a more common concern. It’s got fallout patterns, protective measures, information about all kinds of interesting but terrifying after effects of a nuclear detonation. Even some transparencies to be used with an overhead projector on top of a map!

Sorry for the tangent, but I’m just checking in to say the brutalist design of that courthouse is fucking amazing.