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AutoNews has the new ratings, and they are all 38 MPG highway or lower. The Kia Soul dropped five points highway.
OTOH, the Accent and Elantra are still competitive, even at 28/38 or whatever they are now. And they are giving out debit cards for the entire time the owner keeps the car - the difference in mileage times the cost of gas + 25%, or something like that. They expect an Elantra owner driving 15,000 miles per year to net an $88 debit card this year.
Just think about that: $88 x 900,000 cars = like $80 million per year they will be paying out to make it right for existing owners. Wow. They expect to have new stickers on the cars on lots within a few days.
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
2014 Mini Cooper (stick shift of course), 2016 Camry hybrid, 2009 Outback Sport 5-spd (keeping the stick alive)
Jukebox, 911 calls if your airbag deploys, nav, remote diagnostics and a find your parked car app.
Hyundai doing the same thing.
2014 Kia Soul Inspired by Track'ster Concept
A Soul is still on my shopping list - are you driving a Kia?
And I parked next to a big Kia (Sonata) the other day and I was shocked at how NICE it was.
Still, the idea of buying a Korean car still doesn't appeal to me. I just think (for me) there are better choices. Resale continues to be a weak spot.
A couple years ago, while vacationing in Aruba, I had a Kia Opirus for a rental. When I heard that's what I was getting, I was intrigued, because I thought it would be kinda cool to drive something that we didn't get in the States. But then I Googled it. It was just a Kia Amanti. In spirit, a 2012 Lincoln Versailles.
Still, it wasn't a bad car. We nicknamed it "Opie". One thing I remembered that was kinda cool, was that when you backed up ,the passenger side mirror would automatically adjust downward, so you could see the ground. Really helped with parallel parking. I had never seen a car do that before.
MB has had the auto tilt-upon-reverse mirror thing for maybe 15 years now. It's a very handy feature for parking in tight garages, too.
Kia is nowadays definitely the style leader of the Hyunkia pair.
I was actually a bit leery of the car. At first, I thought it would be an interesting idea for a low budget horror movie, where a tourist gets a car with that number on it, and various people try to hunt them down and kill them for a prize. But then I started thinking a bit too deep into it...
I also remember asking an employee at the resort we were staying at if something or other was free, and he saw my car, with that V-1 on the tag, and said "Oh, you Number One! Think everything for free!" He said it in a nice, jovial way though, not the least bit condescending.
I guess Aruba is pretty safe overall, if they can make that kind of differentiation on the license plates. In some countries, or even parts of the United States, it would be like painting "Rob Me" on the back of the car. IIRC, they used to have a problem in Las Vegas, with crooks figuring out which cars were rentals by the way the license plates were numbered, so they eventually had to make them all look "normal".
That Kia must have been the luxury car in the fleet.