Finally, the flagship Highlander â€" the version that this year accounts for 45 per cent of sales â€" gets a range of new safety equipment over the old one, which strikes at the heart of its family-oriented segment.
These features include autonomous brakes that work at low speed, radar-guided active cruise control that slows the car to zero, a blind-spot monitor, lane assist and a rear cross-traffic alert that beeps if it spots a car when you’re backing out of a parking bay.
But you don’t get something for nothing. The Active’s price is unchanged ($38,490 plus on-roads for the petrol/manual through to $43,990 for the diesel/auto), but the diesel/auto-only Elite ($49,990) and Highlander ($55,990) are $1500 and $2750 more expensive than before respectively.
Finally, and perhaps most interestingly, there’s a Series II SR Santa Fe, details of which have not been revealed given the car doesn’t arrive here en masse until January. Once again, the SR gets OZ alloys, bigger Brembo brakes, stiffer springs and a bodykit. Whether it keeps its former $59,990 price remains unknown for now.Â
Read our full pricing and specifications story here.
All of this makes it clear that Hyundai has hardly turned the Santa Fe on its head. But given the relative lack of change in the car-based, seven-seat large SUV market of late â€" the excellent new Sorento excluded â€" it needed little less.
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