Inexpensive new hatchback wanted
lovemyescort
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Help! I need to replace my beloved '90 Ford
Escort hatchback (5-door, white). I want a new
car, but I can't seem to find any 4-door hatchbacks
on the market. Do such machines exist? Or must I
settle for a sedan or coupe? Advice please. I'm
looking for a low-cost vehicle.
Escort hatchback (5-door, white). I want a new
car, but I can't seem to find any 4-door hatchbacks
on the market. Do such machines exist? Or must I
settle for a sedan or coupe? Advice please. I'm
looking for a low-cost vehicle.
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carlady/host
If looking for a 3-door hatchback, consider the 99 Cougar as probably the best choice on the market right now.
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carlady/host
You're right, the Daewoo Lanos didn't come to my mind. What about it friends? Are there any Lanos drivers among us? Or others with Daewoo experience?
carlady/host
See you there!
carlady/host
No need to be so hard on Edmunds for not loving the Daewoo. I'm sure the people here go to great lengths to do the research on the cars they write about. Maybe they limit their research, etc. to cars that have been in the U.S. for awhile.
Just curious, why are you so eager to have people buy Daewoos?
Isn't that why wagons tend to come with retractable covers? The difference between a wagon and a hatchback is more a matter of size and styling IMHO.
carlady/host
I hope you don't end up regretting it if you buy an Escort of those years. Not really a good car at all.
Purpose:
1. Drive to work and drive to school for one kid.
2. Hope to have space in case to buy big stuff like a desk or book shelf or a bed.
3. Inexpensive. Better under $9000.
4. From edmund information, it seems SUZUKI Swift is recommened. Is it good? Or a Huyndai Accent? Which would be your choice? They are at same price level.
5. Is hatchback safe as sedan?
6. Do all the hatch back have two doors? Or some have four doors? What is the differnce?
Thank you.
The suzuki swift will outlast the Hyundai, even though Hyundai does offer a better warranty. It's not as powerful, but it gets MUCH better gas mileage. So you'll save money every month on trips to the gas station. The Swift's hatchback is also very nice since it can fit quite a lot of junk in it even though it looks small. The hyundai, on the other hand, has a very small trunk that will not fit furniture of any kind. I suggest getting the Swift, it'll save you money on gas and maintenance.
they were the miscreants who made the very poorly rated Pontiac LeMans from 1988-1993. Daewoo offers little help and it is simply impossible to make one of these reliable.
the Daewoo company is using low-income college students to sell their cars and they are selling them like Saturns...retail only...no discounts...only financing incentives.
Kia has been making bulletproof (if slow and boring) Ford Festivas and Ford Aspires and these cars, although small and uninteresting, are very good cars.
Hyundai finally figured out that sending a product over here without making it good is useless, now they have to offer 10-year warranties to sell their cars.
Kia has a decent car, the Sephia, but it is only a sedan. For a small hatchback, (since I drive one) I would choose a Chevrolet Metro. The hatchback version is only a 2-door, but you can get a catapult seat that makes it a cinch to get in and out of the back, and it gets phenomenal mileage with a 5-speed. The sedan has a folding rear seat for cargo. Both get a $1000 rebate and Chevy dealers will heavily discount them (there is about $600 profit here to work with). The similar car you've been talking about, the Suzuki Swift, would work fine except that if you want a radio, or air conditioning, or anything else for that matter, you have to have the dealer install it. There are very few Suzuki dealers, and they have to order Swifts because they never carry them...thus they are difficult to discount. A Metro similarly equipped is cheaper with the rebates and a normal $400-$600 discount. Email me for stories of my Metro (a 1995 LSi 4-cylinder automatic hatchback)
The Festiva continues as the Pride and Aspire as Avella
Why doesn't Kia sell those cars here,I would buy one in a heart beat.
I would like to get someone's advice on this: how reliable are the above mentioned cars? Say, a car around 93' or with no more than 10k miles on it. Or, what kind of the car should I looking for with those money, if a trouble-free(no need for big maintainence, if any) car for at least 4 or 5 years is possible?
Advise and help highly appreciated. Thanks very much. Please reply to yli9@students.wisc.edu.
As for the Kia Rio which will replace the Kia Avella better known as the Ford Aspire, this vehicle will be a four-door subcompact and probably be introduced at the auto shows mentioned above. Nonetheless, it will be available in June 2000 as a 2001 model. This vehicle will also replace the old Kia Pride (Ford Festiva).
Hopefully, this info helps.
Enterprise still has some 1997 Metro sedans for sale in West Coast states. Check with your local Enterprise agent for sale dates and locations. Those are selling for about $4000 each with 40-50K on them.
-thedave2
It is white, has AIR, AUTO, 3600 miles.
Email me at emperor@amabilis.net
I'm currently working overseas (Romania) and thought I'd share with you some of the car experiences I get in this neck of the woods.
I got for my personal use one Daewoo Tico. It's assembled localy from Korean parts. It's a little bugger (about 130in. length, 800cc carbureted engine = 41 horsepower, 12in. wheels, but ... 4 doors hatch). They're only available with a 5-speed manual. The thing only weighs in at about 1500lbs. so its really chintzy in all respects, but as far as moving goes, it's go-kart fun! The little mill seems to doing at least 8,000 rpm at full throttle (it doesn't have a tach, the only real flaw of the car), it revvs freely and it's just willing and begging to rush it over the top!
They are very popular here (then again, the choice they have come to affordable cars is pretty limited...) and you can see young delivery kids or company employees racing the hell out of them through pothole-filled roads! A new basic one costs about US$4,800 cash, the trimmed-up version (air, cassette and ... rear wing!) about US$5,900. Mine's a base one, as I will only be here through this summer and thought I would make it without air ... might have gone awry there!
Come September I will go back Stateside to move to Florida (I'm originally from Northern California but I'm willing to trying a different and cheaper setting...) and will need a cheap, reliable pair of wheels.
Occupant1 has got me pretty convinced of the Metro. Just one question: what advice would you give me in order to start being more car maintenance/repair conscious? I mean, I love to drive, but so far have no mechanical experience/skill whatsoever and from your posts it's pretty obvious that you can save a lot ($$$) by knowing how to dally with the various parts and components. I would also like to maybe try some racing someday and the practical skill will not hurt a bit. Where should I pick up (now I know I should have taken auto shop back in high school...)?
Sorry for the novel. It's my first time.
tiresmoke
I hope you had a happy 4th of July!
carlady/host
I like the subaru outback but it's a bit out of my price range.
btw - Its easy to recommend a Civic over a Daewoo- untill you compare prices/features. I believe in the old saying 'you get what you pay for'.
Sorry about that folks!!!
carlady/host
Why are they so stupid? They did the same thing in 89 with the civic station wagons. I'm gonna have to get a volkswagon now (sob).