Santa Fe News

Hyundai gave a world premiere to the new Santa Fe at the 2012 New York International Auto Show, reports Padraic Deane from the Big Apple.

In its latest form, the popular D-segment SUV is re-styled inside and out, and fitted with enhanced features and new technology. It is also powered by re-tuned engines with improved efficiency – all of which, Hyundai says, is to ensure it will offer European buyers a visually-appealing, sophisticated, lifestyle vehicle when it goes on sale in late summer or early autumn.

Hyundai Motor Co., realizing it isn’t appealing to families as much as it could, has rolled out two new versions of the Santa Fe crossover SUV, including one that’s stretched so it can seat up to seven people.

The new crossovers, introduced Wednesday at the New York International Auto Show, are aimed at people with two or more children and need storage space and other capabilities of an SUV.

Not officially, but someone with full access to the new 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe has published full pictures of the interior on the web. The new Santa Fe, or ix45, is still under embargo until 2012 New York Auto Show and Hyundai has only released a couple of renderings of the car so far.

The interior of the 2013 Santa Fe is right on the money. It follows the same cool layout first seen in the new Sonata and then continued in the i40, i30, Azera and Veloster. Just like the exterior, the cabin is also completely different over the current Santa Fe, which is a good. We also hope they have increased the quality of the used materials, especially the seats which used to get worn rather quickly.

A group of municipalities, businesses and film industry officials will attend South by Southwest in Austin next week to discuss the advantages of filming in Santa Fe and around New Mexico. SXSW started as a music festival with 700 attendees in 1987. It has grown to a far more comprehensive event that includes film and high-tech companies, with more that 16,000 attendees. It takes place March 9 to 18.

Shoot Santa Fe is out to target independent filmmakers with the effort, said Luca Ceccarelli, owner of HDNM Entertainment LLC and one of the founders of the New Mexico Post Alliance.

A Santa Fe hairdresser is waging his own boycott of sorts: He is denying service to the governor of New Mexico because she opposes gay marriage. More >

Santa Fe police are asking for the public’s help in locating a woman last seen in summer 2011. Tammas Joan Hamilton, 57, was last seen in the Santa Fe area in July or August.

She was driving a gold Honda Element with New Mexico license plate LNJ-659. Anyone with information on Hamilton or her whereabouts can contact Detective Sgt. Michele Williams of the SFPD Crimes Against Persons Unit at (505) 955-5227 or (505) 428-3710 or any local police agency.

A man was wounded at least three times in the lower body in a shooting Tuesday night in an unincorporated area adjacent to Santa Fe Springs. The suspect ran away from the scene, said Sgt. Mike Mendoza of the sheriff’s Norwalk Station. He was last seen running westbound through nearby Amelia Mayberry Park, Mendoza said.

The victim’s condition was not immediately known. Paramedics rushed him to Saint Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, Mendoza said.

Police are looking for the gunman who shot a 12-year-old boy as he slept inside his home in Santa Fe Springs. Police say the suspect or suspects opened fire on a home in the 9300 block of Danby Ave. around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. More >

Funeral services are set for Wednesday for one of the victims killed in a double homicide in Santa Fe more than a week ago. Austin urban was only 16 years-old.

Police say Arthur Anaya killed him and another woman over a late rent payment. Last weekend, Urban’s friends and family, as well as the other victim, Theresa Vigil’s family, held a bake sale to help raise money for the funeral costs. urban’s funeral will be at 10 Wednesday morning at the Saint Anne Parish in Santa Fe. Anaya remains in jail on a $1 million, cash only bond.

Uncamouflaged images of the 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe have finally hit the web, thanks to the Hyundai Blog. These two snap shots of the 2013 Santa Fe give us our first preview of what we can expect from Hyundai when the new Santa Fe debuts at the New York International Auto Show in April. More >