Is Kia and Hyundai like Chevrolet and Buick, and VW and Skoda, where it's all the same cars, with tiny minor differences, and they just hope you are ignorant and won't realize they are owned by the same companies and functionally the same cars with minor trim variations?

Yes.

>>28519345
Why do they do this? Could we force them all to merge?

>>28519350
This is how BL started. Never ever go there.

>>28519354
BL?

>>28519356
Leyland

>>28519343 (OP)
>just hope you are ignorant and won't realize they are owned by the same companies
Literally everyone knows these are the same companies.

Is Hyundai ok to buy now?

>>28519412
No, my boomer mom has no idea. Women don't care about shit like this.

>>28519364
Rover I guess. Too esoteric to mind...
>tata motors
lol ur brand is ded

>>28519447
Follow the BL example and your car industry will be no more.
I think I said that up thread.

>>28519451
mergers are not inherently bad also this is a merger of what already IS one big company anyways it's just reducing waste on trim differentiation and branding and duplicate marketing and dealerships

>>28519442
>Is Hyundai ok to buy now?
As long as you buy a new one every couple of years because they don't last. That's why you still don't see old ones on the road. It's way more expensive to do this than just buying a real car. But hey, at least you can say you got suckered in by their advertising, right?

>>28519350
But why though?
>>28519476
What waste are you really worried about? It donesn't seem to be putting them at any risk of going out of business or anything, is it just to sate your own autism?

These things are fucking money pits.
Poor people get fucked with these things lmao. The maintenance costs are retarded.
Alternator: that'll be $600 plus tip.

just lease one of these junkers.

>>28519354
Badge engineering between brands was what BL could never do right

>>28519510
I know a guy who drove his Elantra for 15 years. After he retired he got a Santa Cruz.

>>28519514
that's what everyone does,you won't see grandpas still driving these with half a million kilometers in 25 years

>>28520009
I hope to drive my Kia into the ground.

>>28519343 (OP)
You could have answered your own question in 10 seconds by looking at the wikipedia page for the company and seeing who they're owned by.

>>28519356
bud light. Any shitty product that the masses swill down for some reason. They'll even tell you that it's GOOD!
bmaoooo0o0o0o

>>28519412
They don't though
My friend asked me if lexus was a murican company once

>>28519510
It's the opposite. The old ones are actually reliable while the new ones aren't. They're all garbage though

>>28520208
sooo you will only drive it for about 12 days