other car

[NJK]

I used to drive a Kia Rio
at it's annual check there was so much that needed fixing
it was time to get another one.

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A Kia Carens , in the USA knows as the Kia Rondo or Rondo 7

plenty of space with this one.

[Warrior of the Light]

quite an upgrade. Why a bigger car?

[NJK]

Others buy smaller cars, but those are more expensive.

Got a pretty good deal so i drive a bigger car than before.

[rockouthippie]

KIA sure makes a lot better car than they used to. I remember a neighbor of mine bought one back in the 80's. He pulled in the apartment building and hit the brakes. No brakes. It seems cotter pins in the brake assembly would work loose. It was a recall. He went no brakes into the rear end of my 73 Chrysler Newport, which totaled the KIA and put a scratch on my bumper.

KIA gave me $1000 and gave him a new KIA for free. We had to promise we wouldn't talk to the press or sue them. The brakes on the new one never gave out as far as I know, but the car was kinda of a piece.

Then we go forward to the 90's. I used to date this gal that had a real hopped up turbo KIA. That car was great!

KIA seems to have figured things out after a rough start.

[swingdjted]

Their sales are growing pretty quickly around here; due to the bad economy, people seem to want to get a lot of car for a low price tag, and Kia (among others like Hyundai) fits that market. I have yet to ride or drive in one.

[rockouthippie]

Cars were basically shitty from 1972 to 1990 no matter what. There were a couple of exceptions, but mainly.......

Modern SK cars look nice. I've asked some people about them in passing. I've drove a couple. None of that seems to involve a lot of cussing.

But I dunno.. there are other cars... and you can't go too wrong with Ford or Toyota. I don't know about a reorganized Chevy.

http://nation.foxnews.com/chevy-volt...xpayers-250000

I'll bet if you gave 3 billion to the South Koreans, they would have made a car people wanted.

Obama wants a million electric cars on the road by 2015. Only 992,000 left to go.

[fc*uk]

Originally Posted by rockouthippie

Obama wants a million electric cars on the road by 2015. Only 992,000 left to go.

I'll just take one of these.

These things get about 25 mpg with 600 ponies under the hood? Yep.

The thing with electrics is they are over priced and not fun. How about we work on making the technology in that McLaren more affordable, knock off a few hundred horses, and have a 250-300 hp car that gets 40-50 mpg...

[DrO]

Kia/Hyundai are a hell of a lot better than they used to be, though they weren't too bad even from the mid-90's onwards as long as you ignored the styling of them over the 'standard' features you'd get compared to other larger manufactures. yes there's always a chance of dubious build quality but when the big car manufactures still hit such issues, it just levels the playing field on such things.

when i changed my Rover 114i (aka Metro) under the scappage scheme in 2009 here, i ended up with a Hyundai i20 (not sure what it's marketed as in the US, etc) as despite it not ticking all of the boxes on whizz & pow, etc (though would have if i'd wanted the higher power diesel unit), the overall cost and value for money along with the scrappage discount offsetting the diesel purchase 'premium' was going to better than what i was going to get on say a Vauxhall Corsa or a Mazda 2 which were also on my shortlist. plus i prefer the drive of it in that it just goes though it's not quite as fun as the Metro was, but at least it's not rusty

and looking back, it has worked out as the better car to go with e.g. the Mazda 2 wouldn't have been big enough for when i had to move house. and so far it has proven better on the fuel then we thought (the base 1.4 diesel was spec'ed at 64mpg) and with the gf averaging ~57mpg in her one (we both needed new cars and the i20 suited both of our needs in the end), i think that's pretty close (mine is low 50's due to doing short shopping trips along with the longer day / holiday journeys).

-daz

[swingdjted]

http://www.teslamotors.com/roadster/specs

electrics can be fun^

I like cars where you can haul stuff when you need to. I think the Kia that was bought is good for that and will prove to be a very versatile automobile. Fun is fun, but function is probably most important if you ask me.