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Has anyone been able to confirm (or possibly seen) a 2011 Santa Fe with the diesel engine?
I know they are available outside the states already, but I read online somewhere that we would get them with the 2011 model year.

And, given the option, would you take the diesel over the gas, with the diesel making significantly more torque than the gas engine?

 

[pen411]

I'd tend to agree though, I wouldn't buy a Santa Fe as a primary tow vehicle either. I wouldn't even consider it unless a diesel was available.
Not because I don't think it could handle it necessarily but more because of the limits it has for towing.
It's fine for an occasional trip to the lumber yard, helping a friend move, etc, but I wouldn't use it as a work truck.

Not to mention how sick you will be the first time you hit the tail end with the trailer hitch.

I was thinking more along of the lines of how my 2.7l just feels underpowered for a vehicle that weighs 5300 lbs. This is the largest vehicle/smallest engine combo I've ever owned so it my performance view may just be skewed and what I'm seeing is normal.

The specs on the diesel over the 3.5l gas are pronounced (I forget the numbers, but torque was somewhere around 100 ft lbs more), and when it comes to accelerating (or towing), torque is everything.