The Hyundai Santa Cruz is getting a brand new trim for 2024. The automaker is changing the SLE Premium grade with the rugged-looking XRT trim. Hyundai has already added it to the Palisade, Santa Fe, and Tucson.
The 2024 Santa Cruz XRT will get new fender flares, aspect steps, mattress rails, and decrease door garnishes, which Hyundai pairs with trim-exclusive orange wheel heart caps, black door handles, black mirror caps, and an XRT tailgate emblem. Darkish chrome grille and tailgate deal with trim, matte black “Santa Cruz” tailgate lettering, and darkish entrance and rear fascias full the truck’s visible improve.
The brand new Santa Cruz XRT will sit under the Santa Cruz Restricted within the lineup, constructing off the SEL with Exercise Package deal. Inside, the truck has black H-Tex seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel and shift knob, and an auto-dimming rear-view mirror.
Energy comes from the truck’s turbocharged 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. Hyundai pairs it with the eight-speed dual-clutch transmission with paddle shifters and its HTRAC all-wheel-drive system. The engine produces 281 horsepower and 311 pound-feet of torque.
The Santa Cruz will roll into 2024 with the identical shade palette as 2023, with six colours out there: Sage Grey (a $450 improve for 2023), Phantom Black, Blue Stone, Atlas White, Hampton Grey, and California Sand. Each 2024 Santa Cruz will come normal with LED projector headlights and dual-zone computerized temperature management and auto defogger can be included on the SEL trim degree and up.
Each trim additionally will get steering wheel haptic suggestions for the lane-keep help and blind-spot collision-avoidance help programs. Hyundai may also embody navigation on the SEL with Exercise Package deal grade and up.
Hyundai hasn’t launched pricing info for the 2024 Santa Cruz, which may creep upward by just a few hundred {dollars}. The 2023 SEL Premium that the XRT will substitute begins at $38,935 (costs embody the $1,335 vacation spot cost). The 2023 Santa Cruz Restricted prices $41,905. The trim can be out there on different Hyundai fashions, like essentially the most just lately becoming a member of the Palisade lineup.
Santa Cruz gross sales stay up for 2023 by 10 % by the yr’s first six months. Up to now this yr, Hyundai has offered 20,050 Santa Cruz vehicles. Ford hasn’t launched Q2 2023 gross sales outcomes but. Nevertheless, the Blue Oval recorded 21,478 Maverick gross sales simply by the primary three months of the yr, and Q2 will solely add to that quantity.