We have recognized for a while – make that a number of years – that Hyundai is making ready a pickup truck. Yesterday, the Korean automaker shared 4 real-deal official photographs of the Santa Cruz. They’re darkish photographs, in fact, designed to create an air of secrecy and never reveal an excessive amount of forward of the mannequin’s official launch on April 15. It additionally implies that additional small changes are doubtless for the automobile. However nonetheless, we’re beginning to get an excellent thought of what the Santa Cruz will appear to be.

And what that look is, nicely, we’re getting what the idea indicated all that point in the past, that’s to say a Honda Ridgeline-type truck, a automobile extra oriented in the direction of open air enthusiasms than heavy-duty work. Actually, Hyundai is not even speaking it up as being a pickup truck, however quite a Sport Journey Automobile.

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We’ll resist the temptation to assist introduce a brand new title to explain what stays a pickup truck, but it surely offers you an thought of the mannequin’s vocation and the best way its makers envision it. The Santa Cruz is constructed on a unibody construction, however its dimension appears a bit extra compact than the Ridgeline’s. We’ll must see after we can get our eyes on the mannequin because it sits alongside others.

Its styling is not as distinctive as you’d think about from the primary look, although. The grille is derived from these of the brand new Tucson and Elantra. The physique type is clearly extra muscular, nonetheless, with characterful strains operating all through. On the rear, the tailgate is stamped Santa Cruz and the Hyundai title is discovered on its deal with. T-shaped lights are organized horizontally and full the signature. An fascinating function is the operating board included into the rear bumper to permit simpler entry to what’s within the mattress.

Hyundai says the Santa Cruz goes to have a “versatile mattress for gear, cutting-edge connectivity and a extremely maneuverable all-wheel-drive platform”, and guarantees a really versatile automobile. We’re additional promised “highly effective and environment friendly engines”, which in fact tells us the product providing will embody multiple engine alternative.

As talked about, the complete presentation of the Santa Cruz takes place on April 15. Hyundai has confirmed that the truck shall be constructed beginning this summer season at its Montgomery, Alabama plant.