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Hyundai expects the redesigned 2019 Santa Fe to bolster sales of its growing crossover lineup. Photo credit: JACK WALSWORTH PARK CITY, Utah — The redesigned 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe gets several changes — starting with the name. Hyundai is dropping Sport from the name of the smaller five-passenger version of the Santa Fe. The brand will have one more year of selling down the three-row Santa Fe, under the name Santa Fe XL, and then will replace it with a new nameplate.? That nameplate, expected? to be called Palisade , is to debut in 2019. "When we launched the previous generation, the idea was to maximize the efficiency of our marketing," said Mike O'Brien, Hyundai Motor America's vice president of product, corporate and digital planning, during a media introduction here. "We had Veracruz, we had Santa Fe and we never spent enough money on all of our kids. One kid got the college education. The other only got a high school education. "We thought by having a c...

Hyundai expects the redesigned 2019 Santa Fe to bolster sales of its growing crossover lineup. Photo credit: JACK WALSWORTH PARK CITY, Utah — The redesigned 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe gets several changes — starting with the name. Hyundai is dropping Sport from the name of the smaller five-passenger version of the Santa Fe. The brand will have one more year of selling down the three-row Santa Fe, under the name Santa Fe XL, and then will replace it with a new nameplate.? That nameplate, expected? to be called Palisade , is to debut in 2019. "When we launched the previous generation, the idea was to maximize the efficiency of our marketing," said Mike O'Brien, Hyundai Motor America's vice president of product, corporate and digital planning, during a media introduction here. "We had Veracruz, we had Santa Fe and we never spent enough money on all of our kids. One kid got the college education. The other only got a high school education. "We thought by having a c...