Small pickups like the 2025 Hyundai Santa Cruz are aimed at folks who want something fresh and fun over ultimate utility. The tiny bed and unibody architecture mean this is not a traditional truck ...

As I stepped out my front door the other morning and found a 2025 Santa Cruz that Hyundai’s handlers had delivered to my driveway, a flood of memories rushed through my head. They were not from 2021, ...

The revised Santa Cruz’s new off-road trim level has a few more hairs on its chest. We’ve had a few years to consider the Hyundai Santa Cruz’s merits as a pickup truck, even keeping one for an entire ...

Hyundai introduced its first pickup, the compact Santa Cruz, for 2022, and now for 2025, this little truck returns with a slight exterior makeover and some interior tweaks. With base prices ranging ...

There’s a lot that is suboptimal about today’s new car market. One of the few advantages, though, is that at least buyers have the luxury of being able to choose the degree of truck that they want.

After a decade without any new, truly small pickups in the market, Ford and Hyundai both arrived with their own ideas on what the compact truck segment should resemble in the 2020s, using a ...