The 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz Sport Adventure Vehicle: Why We Adore It

The 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz is the automaker's first pick-up truck,

they want to strike a home run with it. Hyundai's Santa Cruz is a Sport-Adventure-Vehicle

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reviving a long-gone market for useful urban trucks. The Subaru Baja was discontinued in 2006,

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therefore ending the sub-compact pickup vehicle market. The idea of combining a pick-up's

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practicality is not new; it was originally introduced with the Utes, which are very popular in Australia.

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The first vehicle to propose this concept was the Chevy National Roadster Utility in the late 1920s

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However, it was Ford who first created a pick-up version of a coupe with the 1934 Coupe Utility.

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