Hyundia, Kia Over Estimate Gas Mileage...

[BLAZER PROPHET]

No surprise. Both brands are throw away cars....

http://www.kgw.com/news/business/176912971.html

 

[SlyPokerDog]

No surprise. Both brands are throw away cars....

http://www.kgw.com/news/business/176912971.html

Korean People Know Who You Are and Will Come After You.

 

[ABM]

Korean People Know Who You Are and Will Come After You.

You've always had slanted takes, Sly.

 

[julius]

throw away cars? What, are you stuck in the 80's? Both of those cars, especially Hyundai, are quality cars.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

throw away cars? What, are you stuck in the 80's? Both of those cars, especially Hyundai, are quality cars.

Hyundai has always impressed by making their vehicles look as pimped up as possible. They mostly copy other car designs, their cars rarely last past 100K miles and they crumple like tissue in MVA's and people get seriously hurt in them.

Nice to see you believe the hype.

 

[julius]

Hyundai has always impressed by making their vehicles look as pimped up as possible. They mostly copy other car designs, their cars rarely last past 100K miles and they crumple like tissue in MVA's and people get seriously hurt in them.

Nice to see you believe the hype.

so, consumer reports picking it as it's 2012 affordable family sedan is just hype.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

so, consumer reports picking it as it's 2012 affordable family sedan is just hype.

Consumers Reports rarely tests new vehicles anymore. Also, as stated, Hyundai builds its cars to have great curb appeal to make up for their many deficiencies.

Tell you what, I know 3 people at work who have relatively new Hyundais. One is dead with less than 100K miles and is most likely on its way to the junk yard. Another is about 2 years old and has numerous issues and the other seems to be doing fine My claims adjuster friends (yes, claims adjusters have friends) tell me they still crumple in accidents and are merely reinforced to in target areas to get high safety ratings and are very dangerous vehicles to own. So I'm not won over yet that they're as Hyundai states and better than Toyota and Honda. But when they start making their own designs and they stop evaporating in accidents and when they start routinely lasting 300,000 miles than I may jump on their bandwagon. Until then, 90,000 miles and off the cliff.

 

[jlprk]

Do car insurance claims adjustors know health as well as health insurance claims adjustors know cars?

 

[ABM]

Do car insurance claims adjustors know health as well as health insurance claims adjustors know cars?

Don't get him started.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Do car insurance claims adjustors know health as well as health insurance claims adjustors know cars?

Ahem, I have over 13,000 claims behind me- auto, home, commercial, farm & ranch, boats, airplanes, commercial vehicles, ships, cargo, dental, medical, chiropractor, naturopath, general liability, recreation vehicles, bodily injury... I was a Special Arbitrationist, deciding cases up to $150,000 and my decisions were not subject to appeal.

So I've been around.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Don't get him started.

Too late...

 

[julius]

relatively new with 100K on it?

holy shit, that person must drive it a TON.

And if it's "relatively new" with that many miles, chances are they either drive the living hell out of it and probably don't take as good of care of it as they should OR it's not relatively new.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

relatively new with 100K on it?

holy shit, that person must drive it a TON.

And if it's "relatively new" with that many miles, chances are they either drive the living hell out of it and probably don't take as good of care of it as they should OR it's not relatively new.

I average 25,000 miles per year. So a vehicle roughly 4 years old is pretty new to me. I mean, hell, ever see what ABM drives?

 

[ABM]

I average 25,000 miles per year. So a vehicle roughly 4 years old is pretty new to me. I mean, hell, ever see what ABM drives?

Keep me out of this. I refuse to be subject to these webs you weave. I'm perfectly happy and content in my dandyness.

 

[julius]

I think 25K per year is well above average and at a higher clip of use then what is to be expected.

So yeah, I could buy myself a brand new Honda or Mercedes and drive it...ok, not a Mercedes those are nice...but drive it a LOT of miles and kill it prematurely.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I think 25K per year is well above average and at a higher clip of use then what is to be expected.

So yeah, I could buy myself a brand new Honda or Mercedes and drive it...ok, not a Mercedes those are nice...but drive it a LOT of miles and kill it prematurely.

ABM had a Honda he sold that had over 325,000 miles on it and it ran well. My wife has owned only 5 cars in her life- 4 were Toyota Corollas and each went over 250,000 miles before she sold them. All were running well. I have never heard of a Hyundai hitting 150,000 miles.

I guess all I mean is that they have traditionally been very poor vehicles with good initial curb appeal only and I have neither seen nor head anything to make me think they have changed.

 

[ppilot]

Hyundai has always impressed by making their vehicles look as pimped up as possible. They mostly copy other car designs, their cars rarely last past 100K miles and they crumple like tissue in MVA's and people get seriously hurt in them.

Nice to see you believe the hype.

If you made this post about seven years ago, then you might be correct. But that's not the case.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

If you made this post about seven years ago, then you might be correct. But that's not the case.

Well, I'm open minded. Prove it to me. Prove to me Hyundais routinely last for 250,000+ miles, have incredible long term reliability and the photos I see of crumpled up Hyundais with the 'other vehicle' showing little to no damage are somehow wrong.

Seriously, I will keep an open mind. We're not talking curb appeal as Hyundai has always had that. But show me the proof you have and you may make a believer out of me.