So, in February I will have had the Santa Fe for 4 years, and it'll be time to change it for something else... unfortunately, our company has an ongoing CO2 reduction policy, so I need to replace the Santa Fe with another vehicle with less than 140g of CO2... that's going to be a challenge... just in case anyone is interested, I thought I'd give a quick run down of the cars performance to date...
Total Mileage so far - 79,800 miles - it will probably have around 90,000 on the clock when I give it back...
Fuel consumed so far - 10,566 litres at a cost of £12,588 !!
Filled up 220 times
Overall MPG all inclusive across the whole mileage including towing and a mixture of driving conditions:- 33.4 mpg
Overall average MPG excluding towing = 36.14 mpg
Best motorway MPG 385 miles at constant 65 mph = 45.1 mpg
worst MPG - 29.7 mpg - across 250 miles of urban stop / start driving
Average motorway economy = 40.1 mpg
Average towing economy across 12,800 miles = 24.11 mpg
best towing economy 27.6 mpg
worst towing economy 21 mpg
Overall, I have been pretty happy with the vehicle - its had a few electrical gremlins and has had to have the main body control unit replaced twice along with the reversing sensors, and a few minor niggles like wheel bearings needing replacing, clutch master cylinder seal failed causing a leak and clutch failure and vehicle recovery. Its needed 1 x set of 4 tyres at 40,000 miles,
The factory fitted towbar means that it tows a bit nose down, especially when the car is fully loaded - its a 5 seat version so doesn't have self levelling suspension, so sits quite low at the back with the caravan on the back and fully loaded with the 4 of us, bikes on the roof and all of our gear in the boot... I can just about see the towbar in the rear view camera, so its easy to hitch up, and the camera has probably saved my marriage
So now all I have to do is decide what to replace it with.... any suggestions more than welcome ! Since having the Santa Fe we have swapped caravans from our twin axle Bailey Loire to a Coachman 575/4 with a MTPLM of 1565 kgs... maybe I could hang on and take a look at the new Skoda Kodiaq which will go on sale later this year....