2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz Review

 What’s New for the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz?

The Hyundai Santa Cruz is a compact truck that stands out in a crowd with its bold styling. It continues to impress with its solid performance and exceptional features. In 2025, the Santa Cruz benefits from improved style and features.

The 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz introduces more rugged styling while maintaining its modern individuality. Specifically, both the rear and front bumpers have been reshaped to express a more rugged look. The Santa Cruz’s profile continues to be aerodynamic, with a strong angle through the windshield and a smoothly descending hood. The front-to-rear molding stands out with accentuation over the door panels and fenders. The LED headlights also make an impact with their segmented, stacked design. The XRT is the Santa Cruz’s most rugged trim level, with a few updates in 2025. These include tow hooks, updated wheels with beefy tires, and daytime running lights.

Inside the 2025 Santa Cruz, you can appreciate other improvements. These include an expansive glass housing with a 12.3-inch digital gauge panel and a 12.3-inch infotainment system screen. The updated infotainment system software adds Hyundai Pay, a fingerprint scanner, over-the-air updates, and wireless smartphone app connectivity. Additional improvements in the cabin are a revised control panel for the climate management system, improvements to the steering wheel controls and USB-C ports. Carryover features from the previous model year are a wireless phone charger, a household power outlet and LED lighting in the bed, adaptive cruise control, an auto-dimming rear mirror, leather upholstery, a 360-degree camera, a Bose audio system, a heated steering wheel, and highway driving assistance.

The Santa Cruz’s powertrains are unchanged for the new model year. The SE and SEL are loaded with a four-cylinder, 2.5-liter, 191-horsepower engine, and an auto eight-speed transmission. These trims are available with front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive. The top three trim levels are equipped with a four-cylinder, turbo 2.5-liter, 281-horsepower unit and the same transmission. These Santa Cruz trim levels have standard all-wheel drive.

 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz for Sale in Mentor, OH

With exciting enhancements to the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz, this is a truck that requires a closer look. Contact Classic Hyundai today for full details and a test drive.