The Hyundai Santa Cruz: Your Tailgate's Hero

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Here’s what’s ahead:

• Your Season’s Tailgate Hero: The Santa Cruz

• Lightning in the Throttle: IONIQ 5 N at Pikes Peak

• Hyundai Wins: J.D. Power 2024

• Hun-day or Hun-dye?

This Season’s Tailgate Hero: The Santa Cruz

We all have enough to worry about this football season. Between schedule difficulty, transfer QB’s, and play-calling, we shouldn’t add tailgating to our list of concerns for the season.

Lucky for us, the Santa Cruz thought of everything and makes tailgating easy. Let’s consider the essentials, shall we?

Essential #1: Chairs / Games

With a bed length of 52.1 inches, you can fit camping chairs, a canopy, cornhole boards, and more in the Santa Cruz.

The tailgate is adjustable to accommodate more space too. So if you have a tendency to overpack, or you want to bring that extra long table, the Santa Cruz has got you covered.

Essential #2: Speaker / TV

No one wants to crowd around an iPad for pregame coverage… and you didn’t spend hours on a pregame playlist just for your portable speaker to run out of battery.

The 115V power outlet can fuel your speakers, tv’s, and any other electronics for game day.

Essential #3: Drinks

The Santa Cruz has a built-in cooler with a drain plug. You can fill it up with a few bags of ice and your favorite beverages for the perfect tailgate experience - literally.

Hyundai’s Lightning in the Throttle Conclusion

We’ve been keeping you posted on the journey of the IONIQ 5 N racing Pikes Peak. If you’ve kept up with the Lightning in the Throttle series, you know that it’s been a rollercoaster… in more ways than one.

An unexpected crash on the course may have taken driver Paul Dallenbach out of the running for the official run of Pikes Peak, but that very incident proved a standard for the future safety of roll cages.

The IONIQ 5 N continues to prove itself and the IONIQ lineup as a force to be reckoned with. It’s no wonder the last three Car and Driver’s Prestigious EV of the Year awards belong to the IONIQ 5 N.

Claiming new records and setting further standards for performance EVs, we can expect to see the IONIQ 5 N back out at Pikes Peak next year.

Hyundai and Santa Fe Recognized by J.D. Power

The first 90 days of owning a vehicle are important, and you should enjoy every minute of those 90 days. The J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Tech Experience Index Study takes a closer look at those 90 day, and measures the enjoyment of the user experience.

Hyundai has been recognized, for a fifth year in a row, as the top mass-market brand in the index, and is a testament to Hyundai’s dedication to innovative tech.

The 2024 Santa Fe also earned the J.D Power Mass Market Infotainment and Connectivity award. The phone-based digital key feature was the driving force behind this second J.D. Power achievement for the Santa Fe; the first being the Top Midsize SUV in J.D. Power 2024 U.S. APEAL Study.

Hun-Day, or Hun-Dye?

The Hyundai fans have spoken, and the winner for the “correct” pronunciation of Hyundai is …

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HUN-DAY

We’ve heard it a variety of ways, so we don’t blame you if you voted differently from “Hun-Day”. As long as Holler Hyundai is your go-to place and newsletter for all things Hyundai, we don’t mind how you pronounce it.

But if you’re looking to adopt the majority pronunciation, here’s a tip from your fellow readers: Hyundai rhymes with Sunday.

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