Hyundai Santa Fe Test drive since 2012 SUV
The correct vector. Hyundai Santa Fe test
The previous Hyundai Santa Fe was confident in the top three of the leaders of his class. Will the successor repeat success? At first glance, all arguments are available: an interesting design that Hyundai describes as flowing lines, a bunch of equipment and now an additional pair of places in the trunk. But at the same time, the Koreans advanced only half a step: the engine with the gearbox is old, and the transmission and suspension were modernized slightly.
For how Hyundai is looking for its style, it is easy to trace with the example of Santa Fe. The first generation looked original, but awkwardly, harmony appeared in the second, but charisma disappeared, and the current one shines on both of them. Look at the Santa Fe body looks solid and without obvious Asian hyperbol. The details are good: an expressive hexagonal grille of the radiator, an acute -angled optics, a rapid profile of lateral glazing. At the same time, the style is recognizable right away that the big Hyundai is going.
Inside, progress is even more noticeable. The steering wheel is pleasant to the touch the skin here is of excellent quality, as in decent German machines! Almost all of the plastic is soft, the carbon on the front panel does not cause the usual rejection, the upholstery of the doors is not ordinary, but a pleasant software, the removable ashtray outside is wrapped in felt stripes so that it does not rattle.
There are all the necessary keys on the steering wheel, but the overload is not felt, and a lot of niches and pockets are scattered along the interior. Of course, rubberized. The central console soaring in the air resembles either Volvo S60 or Toyota Prius: your mobile phone will be really comfortable in the bowels of this lobby surrounded by USB and a 12-volt nest connector nearby
But here it gets dark, and the backlight is manifested, invisible to the day. The hour when the Koreans end with the blue LEDs should become a holiday for all Hyundai owners. After all, to tear your eyes more likely a delicate epithet than an objective assessment of the poisonous light, poking through the icon of keys. But multimedia is good: its graphics puts most competitors on the shoulder blades, the sensitivity of the eight -inch sensory display is excellent, and the interface is intuitive. When playing music tracks, the system is able to pull out the cover of the album and display it onto the screen, and the file overview and the presentation of the paths have nowhere more clearly. Only some starting screen (like a home page) and in some places translation into Russian are missing.
Formally, the Santa Fe test salon is seven -seater (there are also versions of 5 people), but it will be more honest to describe it with a formula 5+2. Let's go through the rows. In front, the seats with wide adjustment ranges are located to a relaxed landing, and the body does not get tired even in a few hours of journey. Passengers of the second row are also not deprived of space, if only because the sofa rides a nasal forward-back on a wide range, and the angle of inclination of its back is regulated. At the same time, the shop is divided in a ratio of 2: 1, which increases the number of landing options.
A pair of seats form low chairs rising from the floor of the trunk. There are few places there, except for children. And the problem is not even in the space for the legs that can be released by squeezing passengers of the second row. The point is the roof pressing on the crown. But even such seven places in this class are happiness: most competitors cannot boast of this.
The aggregate set of test Santa Fe consists of a 175-horsepower gasoline engine (there is also a 197 hp diesel engine), a six-speed machine and all-wheel drive. The gasoline four of Theta-II (it is installed on Hyundai Sonata, Kia Optima and other models of the Korean concern), although it has a decent of 2.4 liters, is not capable of miracles, which is.
At the same time, the motor turned out to be voracious. On the highway, the crossover eats on every hundred 11 liters of the 92nd (below 9.2 liters on the flight comprehensive compliance, it was not possible to sink in principle), and in the city about 16. If you are looking forward to salaries, you can try eco-mode it will strangle the air conditioner and will make the gas pedal more lazy. But in practice, the Active ECO key only makes the accelerator more strongly when trying to accelerate, and Santa Fe consumes gasoline with constant appetite. Discrepancy with the declared data is almost 4 liters!
The machine plays transfers cleverly and imperceptibly, and its manual regime does not have real use everything is fine and under the control of the artificial mind
The Santa Fe steering wheel can be configured at your discretion for this on the right knit by the steering wheel there is a special key. Choosing three modes: comfort, normal and sport. But do not think that the inclusion of the same mode will somehow affect the feeling of the road, since to increase the effort here that add a couple of pancakes to the bar in the gym. There will be no more informative bagel from this. And I would like: data about what is happening with the front wheels is equally few in all system modes. I clicked and closed and stopped on comfort so at least more pleasant maneuvering in the city.
The gas and brake pedals are so uninformative that they make Santa Fe smooth driving almost art. An ordinary driver will be pursued by clinks and jerks of nothing critical, but unpleasant. At the same time, no questions arise to the very effectiveness of the brakes
Santa Fe's energy intensity of Santa Fe is not bad, and she swallows large bumps without knowing breakdowns. But shock absorbers can not cope with a trifle, and a small trembling goes on the body every now and then. From the crossover of this class, you expect less anxiety in all road trifles and this is on 17-inch wheels! But another 18- and 19-inch discs are available as the option. But if you do not demand excess crossover from this crossover, then the trip will be pleasant and comfortable. Including due to noise insulation: the high body is friends with the wind (the frontal resistance coefficient is 0.34), the arches and the motor compartment are processed for conscience, and the glass is thicker than that of the predecessor.
The Santa Fe salon mirror has a compass. This is so that you do not forget that you are traveling on an SUV. Well, what else can Santa Fe be offered outside the asphalt? For example, a clearance of 185 millimeters. Inhume, taking into account quite long overhangs, which the front bumper has fun and the front bumper has become fun. There is a help system for descent from the mountain and blocking the coupling of all -wheel drive. Let's check how it all works.
Thanks to the first transfer of the modest traction of four gasoline cylinders is quite enough for a heavy crossover confidently fingering around the field, the tickling bottom of Santa Fe with a deep snow cover. The main thing is not to forget to disable the strict anti -boom system, which, incident, helps out on solid coatings reliably and timely. When driving on an off -road, there is a big difference between an automatically working and forcibly blocked couplings while the car is capable of driving, the electronics normally performs its task.
In these photographs, the car refuses to go forward, because the suspension is in a state. The pitch of the wheels was completely small
But if they caught a diagonal hanging or sat on the belly, then neither the locking of the coupling or the compass in the rear view mirror will not be saved. And to sighing the crossover is easy, since the passages of the wheels are minimal in a lightweight. Therefore, most of the sections outside the asphalt on this crossover are better to overcome only by passing. Nevertheless, Santa Fe surprised the confidence in loose snow and survivability of the coupling for the entire time of the pokatushki in the fields, it has never overheated, which often happens with similar units.
The locking of the coupling is automatically turned off when the speed exceeds the threshold of 50 km/h. By the way, the coupling itself is now an electro -hydraulic instead of an electromagnetic node of the predecessor is so reliable
The tested seven -seater equipment Family costs 1,599,000 rubles and has a good level of equipment: there is a combination of all -wheel drive with an automaton, a leather salon with heating the first and second rows of seats, xenon, fashionable Supervision, the rear camera, navigation and other necessary things. But the wheels are 17-inch, there is no non-clock system, there are no excesses like a panoramic roof or electric drives.
The most affordable gasoline five -seater car performed by Comfort is significantly cheaper: for 1,299,000 rubles there will be all -wheel drive (only diesel engine is front -wheel drive), 6 airbags, and a stabilization system. You will have to pay 61 thousand for the machine. The car in the top design of High-Tech with a panoramic roof, a carrier, 19-inch wheels and all-wheel drive costs 1,710,000 rubles with a gasoline engine. Prices for diesel versions (only 5 seats) from 1,420,000 to 1,840,000 rubles.
Perhaps the third Santa Fe has every chance of success, and that's why. Yes, the car did not become better on the go: the motor still doesn’t really go, do not wait for miracles on off-road, and the suspension grazes on small irregularities. But do the honed sled characteristics excite the owners of such machines? It is important for them to look cool, it is comfortable in the cabin, and give more options. Hyundai has chosen the correct vector of improving its Santa Fe crossover received what it needed most. That is, it became truly beautiful, gained an excellent interior and many configuration options. And technology will wait until the next generation.
Alternative
The seven -seater version of Santa Fe (1,599,000 rubles) plays in the league of fairly large cars. The first competitor is the Korean brother Kia Sorento. A seven -seater machine with a similar gasoline engine and all -wheel drive with an automatic machine is available only on average Comfort design for 1,349,900 rubles: in it, in comparison with Hyundai, there is not enough leather salon, heated the rear sofa, fashionable tidy, rear chamber, navigation and adjustable effort steering wheel.
By adding a little, for 1,691,000 rubles you can purchase a larger Nissan Pathfinder with an automatic machine and a 190-horsepower diesel engine. Such a car will be equipped with noticeably poorer than Santa Fe, but this is already the next overall class, and the third row shop is more likely. But seven places should not be expensive, says Chevrolet and offers the Captiva model with a 2.4 engine (167 forces) and automatically for 1,205,000 rubles! True, do not count on rich equipment.
When choosing a seven -set, you need to pay attention to Ssangyong Rexton. Having spent 1,619,000 rubles, you can leave the dealer by car in the rich version of Luxury Family. In this case, the car is supposed to be a 186-horsepower diesel in combination with a machine gun and a constant all-wheel drive (this model also has a connected, as well as an automatically connected four-wheel drive). The equipment for such a machine will be rich at about one with the Hyundai level.
Text: Dmitry Laskov
Photos of the author and Vitaly Kabyshev
Source: Auto.mail.ru
