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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
See how you feel when they get to 150,000 km. Co worker of mine was ecstatic to get 2 grand for a 9 year old Sante Fe with 160,000 km that was riddled with mechanical issues.
If you keep buying a new one every 3-4 years people love them. Too many others I knew had the things falling apart at 8 years old.
Surprised a guy who thinks 5.8 seconds yo get to 100 is too slow would pimp a Kia....
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Do you have any evidence to support what you're saying?
Kia/Hyundai top basically every
list I can find on reliability.
As for the slow SUV thing, it's a different type of vehicle. My wife doesn't care about being super fast and I find the really fast SUVs have embarrassingly bad fuel economy, anyway. We're getting about 26-28 mpg on the highway in our Telluride, which is pretty respectable for a seven-passenger vehicle.
My car is a tuned twin-turbo V8 with about 550 horsepower and over 600 pound-feet of torque. It's fast AF and can put it all down because it's AWD.
Would I buy a Telluride for my own vehicle? No, but I don't like SUVs in general, anyway. I like cars/wagons. But I did test drive a ton of SUVs with my wife including Mercedes, Acura, Audi, Ford, Toyota, VW and Honda. They all were worse than the Kia, with fewer features, more expensive, and ranked lower for reliability. We did like Mercedes and Audi, but the third row was totally useless, as it was in the Toyota Highlander, too. VW Atlas was overpriced/boring and the Honda Pilot was blah and ugly. Explorer seemed cheap inside relative to the KIA and is rated quite poorly. The Kia right now - in this class - is the king and you'd be hard pressed to find anybody who didn't agree with that.
I'm not worried about long-term reliability because I can't find anything that suggests I should be. Your anecdotes are meaningless...like, how well were the vehicles treated before they hit 160,000 kms? I'm on top of all maintenance and would never let a vehicle get to a point where it was riddled with issues...if I did, I would sell it. BFD.