The back looks like a minivan IMO

 

^ Agreed. Just needs the sliding doors

 

I dislike the back but the rest of it looks good

 

or a Land Rover

 

What Land Rover?

 

Even if they raised the taillights a bit, it would look so much better

 

It looks like a very poor knock off of a Land Rover...

 

A very poor knock off.

 

august sales: 10,152
june (last i could find) sales for land rover discovery: 240

doing well for a knock off

 

10,152 future recalls

the sales are down from last year. But I do like the interior. And front end.

 

Well yeah, the much cheaper knock off of the real thing always sells much better lol.

FWIW the car the Santa Fe is pretending to be is a Land Rover Defender, which sold 1,608 units in June...

 

ah thx, but i don't believe the santa fe is 'pretending' to be anything. absurd.

 

 

lol the Defender gets ragged on all over the internet for looking like a blown up Kia Soul or Honda Element



My problem with the Santa Fe is that it's a compact-mid SUV holding up a body that its wheelbase just isn't long enough to get away with. It's a worse execution of what Kia already did with the EV9 which has much nicer proportions.

I am pleasantly surprised by how good the interior is on the Santa Fe though, like how it has stitched pleather upper door panels standard which isn't even in some of the Genesis models. It makes the embarrassing cost cutting BMW and Audi are doing with their interiors even more evident.

 

you don’t see it?