The Korean Hyundai Santa Fe might not be as sought-after as some German four-wheel drives, but it should be, because it’s comfortable, refined and classy
ABOUT five years ago, my father chopped in his well-regarded and quite new German car for a Hyundai Santa Fe. My son asked if his grandad was quite well. ‘A Hyundai?’ he said incredulously. ‘Why?’ The local Hyundai dealer had made my father an offer that was too tempting, except, of course, that he was selling a Hyundai. Stranger still, my father still has it five years later—an unprecedented length of tenure for him.
With a growing suspicion that I might be missing a trick, I keenly accepted Hyundai’s recent invitation to try one of its many new models and, of course, I picked the Santa Fe. Not only because my father now fancies trading up to the latest version and was curious to see it, but also because when looked at objectively, the Santa Fe, with four-wheel drive and tons of room, is an obvious choice for COUNTRY LIFE readers, except, of course, that it’s a Hyundai.
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