Thread 28701380

give kias a chance

If I needed a car to drive the absolute NUTS off and trade it straight back to the dealership at 99,999 miles for the next one yes I'd consider a kia/hyundai
Like if I was truly gonna put my life in the hands of Uber/Doordash as my entire household income and needed a car to run the fuck through and chuck it over and over.

>>28701380 (OP)
Interesting plate.

>>28701380 (OP)
what the fuck is that front end design

>>28701380 (OP)
>no awd carnival
No.

>>28701389
>what the fuck is that front end design
"The Disney Remake"
"I RUV BIG GRIRR"

>>28701389
butch?

>>28701380 (OP)
Oh wow, a new truck, same size and inefficiency as 100+ other trucks on the market, only shaped slightly different! This will really shake up the market!

>inb4 it flops

>>28701738
it won't flop!

>>28701382
Honestly this.
The 100k mile warranty is pretty nice but id never own one after that.

>>28701756
they are actually quite reliable now

My Kia Niro is amazing, really comfortable to drive and the cheapest car to own I've ever had. Insurance is cheap, MPG is good, taxes are almost nonexistant due to it being PHEV. My old sedan was just sucking money from money with constant malfunctions whereas this Kia just werks and doesn't complicate my days the slightest.

>>28701757
Yes Kia scored top 10 in a recent car brand reliability survey in the UK, mostly due to the reliability of EV3 and Niro PHEV.

>>28701831
Forgot source

https://www.whatcar.com/news/reliability-survey-most-reliable-cars-brands/n26159

>>28701389
It looks cool.

>>28701380 (OP)
who the fuck greenlit this abomination? I've never felt ill and uneasy from looking at a vehicle until now. Just...wow.

>>28701813
None of what you said makes the car "amazing."

>>28701851
That's what makes an amazing car to me. Don't make my life a pain in the ass is all I'm asking for.

>>28701384
The automotive sector has a fecal fixation at the momen Anin, get with the times

>>28701380 (OP)
imagine the children this thing could obliterate on the school run

I own a ford Maverick and I wouldn't even look at this thing because the drivetrains will get 25mpg.
Same reason I wouldn't ever look at an EcoBoost maverick. If it's gonna be cheap and thrifty it has to be cheap and thrifty, not a fuckin turbo

>>28703669
maverick is a ford escape in drag with the same hateful cheap interior

>>28703694
Yeah but it's $1k cheaper than a Honda civic and is a similar vehicle just in a different body. Love the plastic that I never touch, put in tuxmats and custom fit vinyl seat covers and a $10 wireless phone charger and suddenly it's more luxurious than anything I've been in. Plastic gets muddy from winter I just wipe that shit and move on, no fabrics to treat or wash or vacuum.

Why would I buy a civic body over a mini truck body?

>>28703575
Stop, I can only get so wet. Are they black?

>>28701831
>>28701834
>made in the last 5 years
so an absolutely retarded survey of poor pakis and chavs?

>>28701380 (OP)
>looks retarded
>monocoque chassis
>based on a FWD crossover
>turbo hybrid engine

>>28701389
It's an fj40/m175 hybrid. Looks great desu.

>>28704008
they've made an extremely forced attempt to make the car seem as australian as possible and just for the cultural appropriation these gooks tried pulling on us I want to obliterate every one of these disabled freak shitpiles.

>>28704031
didn't meant to reply to you there but whatever. I hate this fucking thing.

>>28703575
>imagine the children this thing could obliterate on the school run
It's a kia. When it taps the curb to get on the sidewalk, the front suspension will blow out and wipe out the front quarter panel.
That's the reason so many kias have mismatched front quarter panel. It's not some new trend with customization, it's just what happens in a kia. On the bright side, you never have curb rash. On the down side it's because you had to buy a new rim when you replaced it and everything around it.

>>28703714
5 years of ownership is a pretty good metric.

>>28703702
>Yeah but it's $1k cheaper than a Honda civic
because the quality of construction/interior is much poorer

>>28704008
hmm you are thinking of the santa cruz
I think the Tasman will be built on a dedicated ladder frame

>>28703704
white

>>28701738
>Inefficiency
It has the same 2.2L diesel as every other big Kia. It does a claimed 7.4 L/100km.

>>28701389
oh don't worry anon, it looks even worse in reality.

>>28701380 (OP)
Holy FUCK that is hideously ugly

>>28704876
no it isn't

>>28704459
mazda has a v6 diesel in the aussie market, kia should too...

>>28701380 (OP)
At this point if it had enough engine to do a burnout I'd probably be fine driving it. Yeah it looks goofy but not in a way that really puts me off like the "YOU RIKE BIG GRIRR" stuff does. If it had a manual or a v8 or whatever then all the better but even just a big enough 6 would do.

>>28706120
nobody is gonna buy a kia pickup with a manual and a v8

>>28706123
I know. I mean what would it even be? They don't make a v8 and I don't think Mitsubishi has in a while either so I'd doubt they could reuse that one if they wanted to. And as you say people would be fussy. Everything is so fucking gay now.

>>28706150
They do make a v8 for the G90.
I think a diesel v6 would be a good idea though especially for a truck.

>>28701380 (OP)
>have seen 3 different ones on the road
Who the fuck is buying this ugly thing? Literally why? If it was cheaper than other utes I could understand, but it isn't, so what is the advantage of this over the other utes in the same price range? Is it being built in South Korea over Thailand that pushes it over?

>>28707410
Kia gives you a much nicer interior than you get from Ford or Mitsubishi.
It's also a new platform - the competitors have you driving a 15 year old vehicle.

>>28707412
>the competitors have you driving a 15 year old vehicle.
What a fun way to rebrand and market how kias don't last very long.
>The competitors MAKE you get your money's worth
>We'd NEVER do that to you.

>>28703380
>t. Mahindra sales rep

>>28701382
>Uber/Doordash as my entire household income
I can't even make that much
Too aspie to do anything, too normal to get benefits

>>28708332
truly a cursed existence

>>28707604
>The competitors MAKE you get your money's worth
lolno, Kia is by every metric the past five years a reliable brand.

>>28701834
Shills just don't want to admit it's not 2005 anymore where a Toyota Corolla lasted 300,000 miles and the computer was on 56kb dial up. Times change, brands change, quality changes.

>>28701380 (OP)
I used to be so confused and mystified by the KIA badge. I couldn't recognize what the letters were and I never knew wtf kind of cars those were. No idea. And those cars were stalking me. I saw them everywhere. And they were always driving right in front of me, flaunting their weird unintelligible badge right in my face.
I thought it was NIN for Nine Inch Nails or something.
It took me 10 years to figure out those were KIA cars.
I was so angry they made a badge so hard to understand. I hated Kia cars because of this. Now finally, today I'm think I'm finally beginning to heal from all the trauma it brought me over the years

>>28708998
they try way too hard sometimes, but it shows in the cars, they have more to prove than Toyota, so they work harder and the cars have lots of little features you only appreciate when you have one

I hate the logo, too. But, it's just superficial so I don't really care that much.

>>28708998
>It took me 10 years to figure out those were KIA cars.
That retarded NIN badge has been around for like five years though. Before that it was a very clear visible KIA.

>>28708993
>Times change, brands change, quality changes.
This. China number one.

>>28708993
>lolno, Kia is by every metric the past five years a reliable brand.
And you won't say six because kias struggle to last 5 years. And every car is reliable until it isn't. Which happens at a startlingly low mileage for a kia.
>>28708999
>so they work harder
No they don't. The only effort kia puts into anything is advertising.

>>28709129
>And you won't say six because kias struggle to last 5 years
I won't say six because there comes a point where reliability data that old is of no interest to us driving cars in 2025. Lots of Kia cars have proven to be reliable, even in higher mileages. Niro being the most famous example.