SPIED: First look at new Hyundai Santa Fe’s interior

SPIED: First look at new Hyundai Santa Fe’s interior

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We’ve seen the official design sketches of the new Hyundai Santa Fe, which gives us a pretty good idea of how the fourth-generation SUV will look like when it’s unveiled later this month. Here are some spyshots that give us a glimpse of the big Hyundai’s interior for the first time.

It looks like the little Kona wasn’t just the design inspiration for the new Santa Fe’s exterior, but the interior as well. Hyundai’s new compact crossover doesn’t just look funky; it carries Hyundai’s fresh family SUV look that will be repeated in the new Santa Fe, albeit in a more mature and classy way.

The pic above shows a centre console dominated by a floating central screen for the infotainment system, a look that’s rather common these days. Below the touchscreen, which has hard buttons and dials sandwiching it, are slim pill-shaped air con vents like in the Kona, but with sharp edges (Mazda CX-5?). The side AC vents are also in the same shape, unlike the Kona’s circular items.

The steering wheel seen here is similar to the helm in the smaller SUV. We also see some stitching on the dashboard surface. It all looks very neat, if a bit generic.

Nothing generic about the exterior, though. The handsome Santa Fe gains a much bolder face with two-tier lighting and a large grille, as seen on the Kona. The familiar Santa Fe silhouette features a tornado line is a constant and straight crease starting from the headlamps and ending at the tail lamps. Big and macho is how it’ll appear. Word is that there will be a larger variant with seating of up to eight this time around. Not long now.

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Comments

  • CX-5 looking interior…

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    • Abang Alza Pakai Topi on Feb 01, 2018 at 4:22 pm

      Mazda rip-off haha kpop now no idea already.

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    • halloha560 on Feb 01, 2018 at 9:10 pm

      (Like) 2019 New Hyundai Santa Fe
      (Dislike) 2018 Mazda CX 5

      Well-loved. Like or Dislike: Thumb up 104 Thumb down 6
  • apamau on Feb 01, 2018 at 3:01 pm

    It would be good if there’s a very thin bezel LCD panel than a superthick one.

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  • Elchino on Feb 01, 2018 at 3:08 pm

    The question is, are we going to get this new model or will we continue to get the old one with a few facelift!

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  • Old horse on Feb 02, 2018 at 8:28 am

    Speechless interior ….Korean car should get a fashion designer for the cat interior lol

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  • KS Yong on Feb 02, 2018 at 10:09 am

    I bought last tucson coz it’s highly specc’d w panoramic roof, etc. new tucson is so ho-hum spec wise until recent model w panoramic roof after more than 1year post launch. simedarby-Hyundai removed d active safety features like AES available too. old Santa-Fe is overpriced, underspecc’d n missed d facelift ver. SD-Hyundai needs to do more 2bring back the excitement for these 2 models. CX-5, CR-V and Tiguan all have huge attraction respectively.

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