Used Hyundai Santa Fe 2016 Automatic

The cockpit in the Santa Fe Sport has made enormous strides since its last generation. It carries a shield of controls at its center, and flanks them with big air vents—a theme that's recurring pretty often in compact-car design. The dash surface undulates, dipping low in front of passengers and bubbling up for gauges and the center stack, and large knobs control fan speed and audio volume. On crossovers with navigation, an 8.0-inch screen glows under a matte surface, and electroluminescent gauges toss in a few more subdued lumens.

Hyundai's discovered how two-tone interior treatments can wake up a cabin, and the Santa Fe Sport offers some earthy colors and trims that link them a little more directly to the crossover world than any of their lines or surfaces. The base engine is predictably less satisfying, though our exposure to it has been less than the turbo-4. The base 2.4-liter inline-4 makes 190 horsepower and 181 pound-feet of torque, output nearly identical to other applications like the Hyundai Sonata sedan. It's equipped with direct injection, which helps fuel economy reach up to 20 mpg on the EPA city cycle. All models have the usual standard front, side, and curtain airbags, as well as a driver knee airbag, for a total of seven. Hill-start and downhill assist also are standard, along with anti-lock brakes, stability and traction control.