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Car shopping
- Thread starter Bob Dobbalina
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For what its worth, after 20 years of buying strictly toyota, I bought a hyundai. Its OK, but I wish I would have bought a toyota instead.
Same here. Owned: 1990 sr5 4wd, 2002 Prerunner and 2006 stock Tacoma all new. I got a Subaru and absolutely love it.
- surfdad out!
i bought a couple Kia's in my time - the attraction was cheap and 60k bumper-to-bumper warranty, like Hyundai's (compared to 36k for Toyota, Honda, etc)...the longer warranty meant you really couldn't get burned, early on. But at about 100k, you'd best start looking for an exit strategy.
got the 2020 santa fe last september -first Hyundai. i love it. big enough for everything including me and GF sleeping in the back comfortably.. air conditioned seats! all the safety crap you could ever want, decent off road..apple carplay,remote start, thimng will iterally drive itself with adaptive cruise, etc Lease was cheap as fook ($350 - no money down) considering it was msrp around 39,000 and I wont pay for a single maintenance ever - unless my tires go bad during the course of the lease. Only problem is the gas mileage aint all that.
Truth right there especially if you live at the beach or a place where they salt and brine the roads in the winter. Damned things just rust anyway. Not having a car payment is a freedom I miss.
I'm at 2 years and 50K on my hyundai and starting to get the feeling that what you say is the sad reality I will have to face. Kinda rough when I've gotten used to getting 200K to 300K miles out of my Toyotas. Makes the Hyundai MUCH more expensive for folks like me that like to buy new, carefully maintain, and drive till the wheels come off.
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be prepared that you could have catastrophic failure on any of the new TDI cars.
DPF, High pressure Fuel pump, EGR etc...these are in the range of 3-12k to replace. By not fixing your car you have ZERO warranty. Also I have had 5 tdi VWs with the fix and none drive different. All will be sold when the warranty runs out at 120k
i am replacing my golf with bronco sport.
I don’t recommend Subaru due to the CVT transmission. I’d rather have a VW alltrack which are a great value right now.
2008 here and it will replaced when I have to leave it on the side of the road
No reason your Hyundai shouldn't last way over 100k miles...great cars
Go with a 3 or 4 year old relatively low mileage Prius coming off of a lease. Exceptionally low cost of operation. Lasts forever if you do the basic maintenance. Can comfortably fit two mid-size boards and a passenger at the same time.
I have a Prius v and love it. I can fit my 9'4" longboard in it and could probably stack 8 shortboards/stepups in there depending on fins and what else was in the car. I've gone on plenty of coastal excursions with a small quiver and tons of other supplies/random junk.
It only gets about 40 mpg on the freeway, maybe a hair under. Mine is worse because I have better Michelin tires on it that cut a couple mpg compared to the louder, lower rolling resistance stock tires and a roof rack. The normal Prius gets another 8-10 mpg from what I understand.
It only gets about 40 mpg on the freeway, maybe a hair under. Mine is worse because I have better Michelin tires on it that cut a couple mpg compared to the louder, lower rolling resistance stock tires and a roof rack. The normal Prius gets another 8-10 mpg from what I understand.
I wasn't going to mention a longboard, for fear of mockery, but yeah, you can fit one inside the standard Prius, locked, along with a bunch of other random stuff. I can afford a lot more than a used Prius, but all I care about in a car is price, cost of operation, reliability, and that.
As much as the Prius sucks to drive and is a horrible highway car it kicks ass for storage space and economy ratio. With the seats folded the cargo area on a standard Prius is cavernous and the reliability is off the grid.
other than oil changes there is pretty much nothing you have to do. Cost of operation is cheap as chips. But if you care about how the car drives look elsewhere
Escape or rav 4 hybrids would be a good choice.
This.
I don't understand why people need nice/new cars.
I drive an 02 with no hubcaps and the thing looks like it has vitiligo.
It hasn't been washed, ever.
Gets me from point A to B just like anything else.
Wife drives a late model Outback. Super nice car, great for around town and road trips to Tahoe (great AWD!) Heated leather seats.
I drive a 26 year old Toyota pickup. Total beater. It will outlive the Outback and probably me, too. She won't even get in it, ever.
I drive a 26 year old Toyota pickup. Total beater. It will outlive the Outback and probably me, too. She won't even get in it, ever.