 We purchased our Santa Fe after driving at least 8 competing models and the Santa Fe was way above the compting models.The Santa Fe V6 has plenty of power, decent MPG, rides pretty smoothly, and has lots of extras at a good price.The problem is it's transmission. It started having shifting problems at about 3k miles and we took it in and they reset the tranny.The problem was gone for a while and then gradually returned.We took it back to the dealer and the replaced the tranny at about 7k miles.Now it's been reset again, then reprogrammed and now I'm taking back to the dealer again for the fifth time Jan 10.There are lots of posts about tranny problems on Santa Fe forums now too.