Poll: Dodge Journey or Hyundai Santa Fe?

There is no 5" uConnect. There's a 4.3" and there's an 8.2". An SXT could have had either. The 4.3 is fairly basic. The 8.2 has won awards. My Journey certainly shifts at lower points than your rental did. The transmission is adaptive, however, so you'll never know if the vehicle was abused. The transmission is set up to roll with the engine at about 2,000rpm, which is not going to drive the vehicle to 45 in 1st or 75 in 2nd. I know I'd never buy an ex-fleet vehicle if i was buying used. I can lay rubber if I choose - the 3.6 hauls big time, so either you weren't pressing hard enough on the gas pedal or the vehicle had an issue - did you tell the rental company? Or did you just leave it for the next person? As to better materials? No way. Better tech? That was one of the points of my comment - the Journey has the hill hold and other features that the author said it did not. And certainly not the infotainment system if it was the 8.2. My backup camera has fixed guide lines - does the Hyundai do the bendy lines? If so, then that's something they do better. But I don't know what they could have done better (aside from not switching off the backup camera immediately when shifting out of reverse - they should have left the camera on either until shifted to Park or Drive in my opinion). I know that the vehicle manuals reference some features that are not available to us in North America; - power folding mirrors, - headlight washers, - rain sense wipers, - blind spot alert, - auto-dim high beams, - steering directed lights, - seat position memory. - front collision warning . . . . I don't know why, perhaps just to keep the costs down. But then why not offer them on the top tier version of the vehicle? As to it being better value? That's the one thing it certainly isn't. It costs almost 50% more than a base Journey and pretty much does the same job. That was why I did that quicky financial comparison.