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Just pop the top and doors off, loading gear is easy peasey.

Yeah, that is a lot of it. But we're in the time of year that it's a little less possible to drive around with the top down. Supposed to rain much of the rest of the week. 

A lot of people with convertibles are probably thinking, "well, the top and windows can't be that hard... I just press a button and my top goes down and up..." Nope, it's a manual wrestling match with that damn thing--especially the windows... when it comes time to put the top up. 

Is there a hybrid Santa Fe available?  Mild H.  Good mpgs around town.

MPG isn't a big enough factor for me to swing a vehicle purchase. 

As mentioned in my discussion about electric, I felt comfortable with a slow charger because a "heavy" week of driving might end up being 200-250 miles, and that's only once my oldest leaves for college so about 7 days a month I'd have to handle both school dropoff and pickup. The rest of my driving is pretty miniscule. If all I'm doing is going to work 3 days a week, Costco, etc I probably will be closer to 100 mi/wk. 

With the Flex, I would generally be filling up every two weeks on my Costco run, but a lot of the time I was filling up while being between 1/4 and 3/8 tank or so... 

We drive about 6,000 miles a year, so about the same.  In our case, my wife wanted better acceleration, and the hybrid has more hp.  I think it was about $2 K extra.

That was my main motivation.

When I test drove the Santa Fe, that would have probably pushed me to the hybrid as well. 

Oddly the Santa Fe has lower total horsepower in the hybrid configuration, but apparently the hybrid makes it better acceleration when you need it...

The RDX looks to be around 6.5s to 60. 

Honestly I'm not that worried about it. The Flex was about 8 seconds, and I lived with that. So getting to the mid 6's is an upgrade.