Hyundai Santa Cruz

The 2022 Hyundai Santa Cruz – the brand's long-rumoured dual-cab ute – will share its architecture with the Hyundai Tucson SUV, it has been confirmed. At a media event for the SUV, Lorenz Glaab, Head of Global Product for Hyundai, was asked whether the Santa Cruz would share the same underpinnings as the Tucson – known within the company as the 'M3' platform.

The Hyundai Santa Cruz ute has been photographed during cold weather testing in Sweden. This latest prototype is wearing the same amount of camouflage as the vehicle spotted back in December, but this time around we can see the car from a great number of angles and tease out a few extra details.

Hyundai has confirmed production of its Santa Cruz ute will start for North America in 2021. The brand has stopped short of confirming the development of a workhorse in the past, but Hyundai has previously said we're likely to see a ute of some variety in Australia during 2022 or 2023.

Korean carmaker Hyundai has finally confirmed its intention to build and sell a pick-up truck in the United States. Michael J. Obrien, vice president of corporate and product planning at Hyundai Motor America made the announcement today, when he told Reuters that the company’s top-level management had green lit the development of a small pick-up similar to the Santa Cruz concept, which Hyundai revealed at the 2015 Detroit motor show.

How well can the Hyundai Santa Cruz lifestyle ute sell? As well as two of the biggest-selling SUVs on the planet, according to the brand. Hyundai Motor America vice president of corporate and product planning, Mike O’Brien, told CarAdvice at the 2016 Detroit auto show that there’s serious potential for a vehicle of this type in the market.