Hyundai Santa Fe 2006 test drive - 2009 SUV

Equal - on Korea!

More recently, the Korean Hyundai auto giant has chosen WestCall from many applicants as a service provider for its Hyundai Motor ManUFACTURING RUS in the Kamenka near St. Petersburg. Ironically, not yet knowing about this fault, we suggested that Victoria Marxovna Tikhonova Director of the St. Petersburg branch of WestCall test, and then choose the best of the two SUVs of the Korean brand.
Victoria Marxovna Tikhonova, Director of the St. Petersburg branch of West Call.
Personal car: Subaru Forester.
Selects between: Hyundai Santa Fe Classic and Hyundai Santa Fe New.
About myself:
I like to travel out of town, to the forest. In addition, our roads are so bad, so often we have to climb somewhere or get out of somewhere that it is better to have an all-wheel drive car.
Now I have Subaru Forester. When I bought it, there were very few of them in the city, it was something new, interesting. I literally chased them: Oh, Forester drove! I catch up, look closer; If I see that I am parked somewhere I stop nearby, I consider it. I really liked this car!
Forester, unlike other crossovers, is not huge and, at the same time, quite high. I, with my low growth, just approached. I bought my first Forester back in 1999 and changed it only to the next model: I sat and thought what kind of car I wanted, and then I saw a new Forester. In addition, at that time in the city there were more of them to choose from.
About choosing a car:
Despite the fact that I am a woman, before buying a car, I first look not at style and beauty, but at running properties and safety. In addition, I always study the so -called car barrier rating. After all, this is also an important safety factor. And, of course, if all of the above parameters I have no attention to the external data of the car, because he will be with me for more than one year, and I undoubtedly want to admire them!
Victoria Tikhonova:
I treat the car almost like a person, although not: not as a person, of course as a living being!
About Hyundai Santa Fe Classic and Santa Fe New:
Outwardly, both Hyundai are quite modern, moreover: quite stylish. Especially the New: it looks much fresh. I would not call the salon of both models progressive. But here, too, a little more liked the new Santa Fe its interior is made in a more European style: rectangular buttons, the organization of the driver’s place and the location of the governing bodies, moreover, it seemed insufficient to the number of clothing departments. I always drive many different useful items in the car: from documents to keys or napkins.
What is surprising: on the tests of other cars, I needed much more time to get used to, get used to the new. Both Hyundai Santa Fe in management are very light, pleasant and friendly. The suspension of both in off -road conditions works equally softly and comfortably in my car it is much tougher! In such conditions, it would have shook much stronger, if I were in my current machine
About cooperation with Hyundai:
For a long time I have not had such pleasure from working with the company with which you are in a state of discussion! You prove to them that you are suitable for them as a telecom operator, you are in disputes about prices, the number of services is quite tough about the number of services, but unlike Europeans or Americans, Koreans are surprisingly quickly reacting and responding to proposals! I really liked working with them. They are able to solve the issues over which others can think for a week or even two!
Victoria Tikhonova:
Do you have cars on the machine? Sorry, I do not like machine guns. I have a Forester with a pen. You know, I love when I control the car, and not she myself
There is absolutely no laziness in Koreans. If they put production at the same level as they organize it, only the most rainbow prospects await them! In any case, we need to equal them
Alexander Korobchenko:
Of the two Santa Fe, I would most likely choose a new one.
Firstly, I do not live in a car, sometimes I get out of it. And I don't care what my car looks like. This also applies to interior decoration. Let the car of the end of the 20th century remain at the end of the 20th century: why turn the past, resurrect the dead, create a zombie from models that have long shed in the best of the garages?
Secondly, my driving manner is different day by day. I’m not a car, a new program is written daily in my control unit. Sometimes I rush, sometimes not much, sometimes not at all; One day I move straight, the other snake from above-down. But you understand the wheel of Santa Fe Classic that the throttle of the throttle has only two provisions: the glidth and weaved and weave. Santa Fe New is multifaceted, but Classic or goes to all money or crawls. But sometimes you also need something intermediate
Finally, about the third reason: 400,000 rubles. This is the difference between Classic and New in similar versions with gasoline 2.7 and machine guns ... Stop! The new one costs almost one and a half times more than the old one? .. One and a half times more expensive than the old?! To give such an amount in favor of one of the cars, it is necessary that it really likes it. I liked it, but not so ...
May I think more?
Philip Berezin:
Why do I prefer old Santa Fe? Firstly, I am not at all embarrassed by the Russian assembly of Tagazovo models in recent years did not allow me to reproach themselves with non-imported quality. Secondly, the new crossover, in my opinion, is at all a written handsome man. Yes, he is fresh, his headlights look sharper, and the body line is faster. But the strict and calm silhouette of Classic fully satisfies my today's ambitions.
Thirdly, outside the city, on an uneven road, on bumps and bumps, the Classic pendant seemed even more practical to me than the running version of the New. The latter produced irregularities more rudely and no less noisy. Classic’s cross -country ability is also not offended.
As a result, the resulting difference in price is taken more from subjective ideas about the old and new. A more modern version, of course, is more prestigious, and this immediately allows the manufacturer to take additional money for the image. And actually automobile criteria do not give a recruiter such significant superiority. An old friend is still better than new ... or rather, new.
Alexander Mikhailov:
Cryce! I turn on the steering wheel lever on the Santa Fe Classic, and in the bend I support the top roof. Click! I am changing the position of the blowing regulator, and the fan begins its mournful song if you choose between the old and the new Santa Fe, I will definitely take the last one. Precisely because it does not have these crops and click. Because inside it looks like a real European, has a spacious salon with a noble finish and good ergonomics. And I look like a new SUV expressively, I like it.
The old version can be taken after the Spartan Niva, for example: then there will be no complaints about the car. Against the background of the new crossovers, Santa Fe Classic fades and gives a solid conveyor age with his head. Cheap plastic inside, uncomfortable armchairs, slippery steering, as if I choose a new one! Let's Price!
From 1 049 900 rub. For motor 2.7 and automatic? Perhaps I would like a smaller engine and, accordingly, a slightly different price tag. But my the choice is limited by one gasoline and one diesel unit: both valuable for a million background of competitors are not so expensive, and with an excess of power I will reconcile. The choice is made.
Victoria Marxovna Tikhonova, Director of the St. Petersburg branch of West Call.
And recently rolled on Volvo XC90. Compared. I realized that Forester had a fairly stiff suspension. Although for me Subaru is also a very reliable car: I helped out so many times. Many times on a slippery road I felt ABS intervened.
In general, we can say that I am now in the search: I want to try something else.
Cars are provided by Dakar with an official Hyundai dealer.

Text: Alexander Korobchenko Alexander Mikhailov,
Photo: Roman Ostanin
 
 

Source: Wheel magazine [October 2008]