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An excessively complicated Korean sedan with zero proven record.
A complete waste of corporate resources.
God help the person that needs to get this car repaired.
What's excessively complicated about it? And why is it a waste of corporate resources?
Every new product has "zero proven record" until it hits the market. At what point in time should car companies have stopped innovating because the innovations they developed had "zero proven record?" After the Model T maybe?
Hyundai has an identify problem similar to Toyota and Honda in the 70-80s. They've built a lot of cheap copies and offered some really good values but people just view them as cheap copies. They only copied appliance vehicles and have competed on performance. Every Hyundai gets good marks for looks but bad marks on driving dynamics. While the Genesis sports car gets high marks for power and value but very little credit for driving experience. It loses in that area to lesser power cars such as the Subaru BRZ and Mazda Miata.
They don't really have much variety in the sports sedan sector. What is their niche sports sedan and utility sports crossover?
Every car brand has 1-2 niche halo car that defines the brand's capability. Hyundai has none.
Recent sales tell a different story. Its not Corolla-Camry or Accord-Civic anymore.
And only after Kia was brought over, it got a facelift and they started looking somewhat appealing.
However this car still looks like a high end Optima ( and current Maxima).
Hyundai has an identify problem similar to Toyota and Honda in the 70-80s. They've built a lot of cheap copies and offered some really good values but people just view them as cheap copies. They only copied appliance vehicles and have competed on performance. Every Hyundai gets good marks for looks but bad marks on driving dynamics. While the Genesis sports car gets high marks for power and value but very little credit for driving experience. It loses in that area to lesser power cars such as the Subaru BRZ and Mazda Miata.
They don't really have much variety in the sports sedan sector. What is their niche sports sedan and utility sports crossover?
Every car brand has 1-2 niche halo car that defines the brand's capability. Hyundai has none.
I hate the front end. The rear is the only part of the car I think looks good... and only in red, with those ridiculous rear side lights wrapping around.
The interior, yet another blatant Mercedes rip-off.
KIA is like the equivalent of Eclipse, a cheap Chinese knockoff company that makes an MP3 player that looks as much as possible as an IPod, but doesn't function nearly as well if at all.
I'm amazed they haven't been subjected to fines and lawsuits for copying other manufacturers.
Kia designer, Peter Schreyer was a designer for Audi and Volkswagen before working at Kia, which explains the pseudo-Germanic look of its cars.
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