How much?

[CHRIS1980]

Out and about today with the other half,she was driving so gave me the opportunity to look at things I didn't notice when I drive. In Corby we've just had a Hyundai dealership open up,it's been there a month or so but I never looked at it in detail. It's right by the lights so when stuck in traffic I started to look at them and more importantly how much they are. £22,500 for one of them and the rest averaged £15,000 for one the size of a Fiesta. Since when did they cost that much? Have I missed something?

[Bren]

They are only marginally cheaper than the equivalent golf.

[HH-R]

I was thinking about this the other day when someone mentioned how much KIAs cost now.

 

Are we at the point now where a Ceed or i30 is a better car than an Astra etc? Deffo hear of people having less agro with them.

 

A new Rio is only 10k which is still pretty cheap.

[HH-R]

Fug me, a Ceed is 3k more than an Astra! I'm guessing that's the equivalent, I can't really tell the difference between the Venga, Rio and Ceed.

[sawdustman]

I think they're on or almost on a par with Fords/Vauxhalls/Nissans ect these days. Possibly a calculated decision due to the imminent arrival of Geely, SAIC MG and Qoros

[chaseracer]

Kia and Hyundai kit is much the same, as regards oily bits; Picanto = i10, Venga = i20, Cee'd = i30, Sportage = ix35, Sonata = i40, etc. etc.

[Split_Pin]

As far as Korean cars go, I would absolutely never touch a Chevrolet again. My Aveo looks the same under the bonnet as my mum's Corsa but I'm convinced that the ancilliaries and electrics come from a less scrupulous source.

 

I certainly wouldnt pay £20k plus for one. The residuals cant be great can they?

 

Anyway this is A-S so the the only Korean car we should be talking about is a Hyundai XG30

[purplebargeken]

My auto top spec i10 cost a tad over 8K in 2011, now the equivalent is over 10K. The only issue with the i10 is people bumping into it.

[CHRIS1980]

Maybe it's me,but I always thought that Hyundais were budget cars much like Dacia are now. It would seem they upped their game,but at a cost. Don't get wrong if it's a good car then so be it,but if you had 20k + to spend on a car a Hyundai wouldn't be on my list.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Hyundai are really good these days. I'd take one over a Ford or Vauxhall if I was buying new. Kia are pretty solid too, my dad's partner has a diesel cee'd estate which has gave her precisely no bother and is a very well finished car

[Ghosty]

I'll say, the Kia Optima is a handsome thing.

 

The current model Ford Focus looks like a 2012 Cee'd.

 

Kia must be doing something right.

[MarvinsMom]

aren't kia and hyundia actually the same company?

 

the big kia is a pretty thing, only they hip it with some daft modern bullshit dmf/dpf.piss flap??? diesel. 

 

there is no pez option (or so i think)

[They_all_do_that_sir]

aren't kia and hyundia actually the same company?

 

the big kia is a pretty thing, only they hip it with some daft modern bullshit dmf/dpf.piss flap??? diesel.

 

there is no pez option (or so i think)

They will end up massively cheap once fucked. Buy and fit an XUD?

[They_all_do_that_sir]

I'll say, the Kia Optima is a handsome thing.

 

The current model Ford Focus looks like a 2012 Cee'd.

 

Kia must be doing something right.

Correct me as I'm more than likely wrong but I thought the current Kia lead designer was previously with ford?

[Skizzer]

Correct me as I'm more than likely wrong but I thought this site was about old cars

 

FTFY.

[gordonbennet]

Hyundai/Kia were cheap until the i30/Ceed arrived, all of sudden these were cars the fashion victims could be seen dead in...maybe it was the recession wot dunnit, those same people who previously looked down their nose at our Lidl/Aldi shopping bags were themselves in Lidl and putting their much cheaper shopping in their Korean car which was no longer an object of derision.

 

Personally i'm not keen on new Hyundais, they're a bit too overfashioned if yernow what i mean, trying too hard, i really liked Sonata/Grandeur but why the fuck didn't they do a Sonata estate?

 

Optima looks wondrous (and Ford tried hard to copy it with the latest Mondy) apart from the wheels on the higher spec model which are frankly shitty bling, but they've been caught with their knickers down by the sudden discovery by the general public that modern Diesels are too effin complicated and they're going back to petrol, at least in private sales.

Kia's look better overall IMO, thought beauty in the eye etc, that 7 year 100k warranty is a lot of peace of mind for the mr and mrs normal who don't/can't/won't autoshite.

 

There was a Kia dealer in Corby opposite the woodyard along from the steelworks offices, does Corby still have a Kia showroom somewhere.

[richardmorris]

Dacia have pretty much taken over France based on my recent trips. Simple, cheaper then the alternatives and built by Renault ( some of them had signs saying so).

[r.welfare]

The new Kia Sorento, which appears to be a soft roader in the CRV mould, starts at over £28k.

 

On the shite side, a mate of mine bought a bog-basic Kia Rio 1.3L in 2002 when they were doing low rate finance and £1 deposit and the thing is still running...

[EssDeeWon]

Its threads like this that make me think  'what the heck was I worried about spending £400 on a gorgeous looking old Rover??'

[Station]

I reckon Korean cars are similar to how Japanese cars were in the 70's except but without the quirky styling, the uniqueness, the reliability, any desirability by me to ever want to drive one, the lack of anything that resembles anything sporty or exotic and the hubcaps that looked like cake tin moulds.

They're probably better value (if you could ever say 20k for a car was value) than anything else in their league.

[sierraman]

I'd sooner cook my nob in a broth than spend £20k on a Kia. For that money you could do a lot better.

[Sealtainn]

I squawked at spending £12.5k on the Mrs Seals Clio.

Having said that, the 7-yr warranty is something good to have up here with the sea air, I still wouldn't drive one though

[HH-R]

I quite fancy a new Rio, will be ask over one when they're £800.

[Taff]

Its threads like this that make me think  'what the heck was I worried about spending £400 on a gorgeous looking old Rover??'

 

and make me wonder who makes a mid-mounted cheapish drop top