2017 Hyundai Tucson and 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe To Be Bigger As Hyundai Adds Two More SUV In Lineup

Nov 24, 2016 10:34 AM EST | Mariechris Felipe

The 2017 Hyundai Tucson and 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe will be bigger as Hyundai plans to add two more smaller SUV in their lineup. This was revealed by Dave Zuchowski, Hyundai North American CEO at the recently concluded Los Angeles Auto Show. The commercial success of SUV in the US and also globally is the reason for the huge decision by Hyundai.

Bigger and Better 2017 Hyundai Tucson and Santa Fe

The first move of Hyundai is to increase the size of models like the 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe and 2017 Hyundai Tucson In the case of Santa Fe, the change will also apply to Santa Fe Sport, which will help the customers to differentiate between them. In the future, the Santa Fe will grow to become an SUV with eight seats and Santa Fe Sport will have a design change to look more robust according to AutoBlog

The dimensions of the Hyundai Tucson will also be modified slightly to be bigger. And in 2018 it is also expected that the 2017 Hyundai Tucson FCEV, future electric variant with hydrogen fuel cell SUV of Hyundai, which to date have only seen in spy photos will be available in the market. It will be interesting to see how this increase in size will affect the electric variant of the Tucson.

Two More SUV To Compete

It is confirmed that Hyundai will add 2 more SUV in their lineup to join the 2017 Hyundai Tucson and 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe. The arrival of these two new alternatives serves logically to the considerable increase in demand of SUV in the US and world wide.

An SUV segment A and segment B is expected, with the latter to have the goal to compete with Honda HR-V and Jeep Renegade as reported by NyDailyNews.

All these changes will occur around 2020, although reports say that the new SUV Segment B may arrive in the market on 2018.

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