2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport Earns Safety Award
At Hyundai, our highest priority is the safety of our vehicles. We work tirelessly to ensure you and your family can ride in comfort and security when you ride with Hyundai. That’s why we’re excited to announce that the 2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport midsize SUV earned the 2016 Top Safety+ award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The award applies to the Santa Fe Sport with optional front-crash prevention.
After receiving good marks last year with room for improvement, Hyundai stepped up and made sure that the Santa Fe Sport’s structure was as strong as possible for the 2017 model year. The automaker’s persistence and engineering innovation paid off.
“A beefed-up occupant compartment takes the Hyundai Santa Fe Sport from a marginal to a good rating in the small overlap front test,” the Institute said in a statement. “Prior to the changes, the midsize SUV’s structure failed to hold up in the small overlap test, which replicates what happens when the front corner of a vehicle collides with a vehicle or an object like a tree or utility pole.”
In all the other tests, the Santa Fe Sport passed with flying colors in both years – picking up a rating of “good”. The 2017 Santa Fe Sport also earned the highest five-star overall safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It received five stars in the front and side crash tests and four stars in the rollover crash test. That rating applies to both the front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive versions of the Santa Fe Sport. The 2017 five-star safety rating is identical to the model’s predecessor.
A lot of thought has gone into making sure the Santa Fe Sport (and all other Hyundai vehicles) are as safe as possible. The 2017 Santa Fe lineup includes standard safety equipment as well as vehicle stability management with electronic stability control and traction control, seven airbags, a rearview camera, antilock brakes and hill-start assist control. Optional safety features, including lane-departure warnings and automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, are also available.
The Santa Fe Sport’s IIHS ratings match those of its 2016 model year competitors. Competition includes the Subaru Outback and Nissan Murano, both of which also received Top Safety Pick Plus ratings. Whether they’ll continue to match up the Santa Fe’s safety package remains to be seen – they haven’t been rated for the new model year yet.
At Hyundai, you’re always safe in our hands. Curious to see which vehicles have the best features available to suit your family? At Rosen Hyundai, we’re more than happy to sit down with you and go over your options before taking you out on a test drive. Whatever your choice is, we guarantee your peace of mind.
