excellent car but has factory issues
Love the 2026 Santa Fe. The room and options on it are above any of the other cars we have looked over. We bought the Caligraphy. There are two issues with this car however. the first is that the back hatch protective barrier does NOT keep water out of the back of the vehicle. If you go through a high pressure wash, such as a PDQ car wash, water splashes up the the second row seat if the third row is down, plus there are small puddles. We keep two towels in back for clean up. This is a design flaw. In the first week of owning the car we discovered the problem. The dealership mechanics had to call Hyundai since they never heard of the problem. Hyundai had the dealership test all the rest of the cars in their lot, and each of them had the spray come in from a high power wash. Hyundai told us it was an intrinsic issue and we would have to deal with it on our own. Thanks Hyundai, had I known this I would have never bought the car in the first place. The 2nd issue is with their camera by the steering wheel. It is there to give you alerts that your eyes are not focused on the road. You cannot turn off this feature. With us, alerts keep beeping with messages to watch the road. If you don't do something about it the car thinks something happened to you and automatically slows down and the vehicle stops. The car did this twice on me, both times on the highway. The camera is not accurate and things such as sun glasses or regular glasses can give false readings and alarms go off and the car may shut down. Everything else about the car I love.