Hyundai’s new Santa Cruz compact truck attempts to skirt the rules for traditional pickups.
Breaking into the lucrative truck market isn’t for the faint of heart. Subaru’s Baja lasted four short years, Honda had to butch up the looks of its Ridgeline to secure a seat at the table, and even Toyota’s T100 stumbled until it became the V-8-powered Tundra. And who can forget the Ford Explorer Sport Trac? It would seem that to succeed in this segment, your truck had better look and perform like, well, a truck.
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