Everything is easy to read and reach. Smaller than last year, but more efficient, more powerful, and sufficiently quick.
Cargo volume ties Pathfinder and Explorer when both rows are folded--which can be done from here. Cargo area more competitive (and much more useful) with third row folded.
Your groceries should all fit. Your family's luggage won't. Decent legroom, but as in competitors you'll sit knees high.
Seat doesn't collapse when its slid forward, so tighter walk through than in the Pathfinder. For good or ill, captains chairs mandatory in the Limited. Comfortably high off the floor.
Interior attractive, if not the most welcoming thanks to some sci fi-flavored angularity. Clean lines with no potentially controversial details.
All fluid and perhaps even too pretty from this angle. The Santa Fe's longer wheelbase and overall length yield much better proportions.
On the shorter, two-row Santa Fe Sport the ends of the vehicle appear disproportionately massive. The more you move away from the face, the prettier the Santa Fe gets.