jgarty38 Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 I intend to get myself a decent inexpensive car soon. My wife and I like the look of the Hyundai elentra but I cant help wondering why they are so low in price. Is it a spare parts problem? or is the car unreliable? Ant hyundai owners please enlighten me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Totster Posted July 2, 2007 Share Posted July 2, 2007 Moved to the motoring forum totster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Believe it or not, Hyundai was top in a US quality survey last month: http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articl...32630-OISBI.XML http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14339 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plus Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Hyundai exited Thai market several years ago, mostly due to low sales. It was quite popular once but law quality had caused long lasting prejudice among Thai motorists. If it's one of the latest Elantras or Sonatas (circa 2000) it probably won't be so bad, Thais burnt their fingers on mostly earlier Excels. Hyundai will be up and running again, reportedly in September, and build cars at Thonburi plant that assembles Mercedes Benz now. There will be all new models, I doubt they'll support Elantras. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THAILIBAN Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 many Thai people go rather for the BRAND than for the quality of a car (same goes for mobile Phones where everybody NEEDS just NOKIA and nothing else). Honday and Toyota are very popular while Mitsubishi and Nissan are not so much. Not to mention Hyundai. I think you will get excellent value for money by buying this cheapo Hyundai. I bought an old car of a not-so-popular brand 2 years ago and am very satisfied with what I got for my little money..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warwick7735 Posted July 3, 2007 Share Posted July 3, 2007 Hi Its not just the quality & reliability but also the safety issue, recently read an article with pictures where they did some crash testing. The Chevrolet Aveo got a whopping 1 star, Mitsubishi Lancer got 1.5 stars (both of these the passenger compartment had failed considerably, and the driver would of sustained life threatening injury), where the Ford Focus got 5 stars (driver could walk away with some bruising), now which one would you rather be sat in, in a crash. Warwick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingray Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Cadillac Se Ville 1965 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chinthee Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Cadillac Se Ville 1965 That would be quite rare, as they only specially produced SeVilles before 1975 I think, but no expert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lannarebirth Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 I thin k Hyundais entered the US market about 20 years ago. When it first arrived it was of very poor quality. After about 10 years the quality had improved tremendously and they gave outstanding warranties. Much longer than any other make. Fo4r quality they may still be just below Toyotra and Honda, but are light years ahead of Kias, Daihatsus and Suzukis. You'd probably get less at resale, but if you save enough on the purchase, maybe that's not such a big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaiChai Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Only problem with Hyundais is spare parts; Korean manufacturers never seem to get the supply chain going for spares like the Japanese. Its pretty much the same story everywhere with korean cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_Traveller Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 (edited) Cadillac Se Ville 1965 That would be quite rare, as they only specially produced SeVilles before 1975 I think, but no expert. Guessing here but s is next to d on keyboard, so a '65 de Ville {though should it not be DeVille as in Town v Lincoln Town car} would make sense, would it not? Regards /edit format// Edited July 5, 2007 by A_Traveller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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