Stangar,
SERIOUSLY! Hyundai IS equal in quality to the Honda vehicles. This is no lie. I read this in "AUTOMOTIVE" magazine. Well built Hyundai cars like the Accent, Elantra, Sonata, 300XLG and Santa Fe have given Hyundai the edge on being face to face and equal with Honda on reliability and quality. Find the article and read it for yourself. There are many other articles in other magazines which categorize the Hyundai vehicles to be equal quality to Honda and Toyota also.
Personally, I have owned and driven both the Hyundai, Honda and Toyota vehicles. There is no difference in quality or reliability. They are all equal. I hate to say this and you probably don't want to hear this, but the Hyundai vehicles have come a loooooong way since the 80's. If you can remember back in the early 70's many Toyota, Honda and Datsun cars had reliability issues as did the Hyundai cars during the 80's. Then in the late 70's and early 80's these same Japanese car companies made big strides to improve and maintain quality and reliability on their cars. The same thing occurred here for Hyundai. All during the early and mid 90's Hyundai improved the quality and reliability on all their cars. I used to own a 82 Toyota Celica, an 85 Honda Civic S and a 97 Toyota Camry. Were they all well built and reliable cars? Yes. I also used to own a 97 Hyundai Accent, a 97 Hyundai Elantra station wagon, and my beautiful porno star wife currently owns a 2001 Hyundai Santa Fe AWD SUV. Have all these Hyundai vehicles been reliable and high quality vehicles for us? YES. My sexy wife's Santa Fe has a German built Porsche drivetrain in it. I bet you didn't know that did you? Hyundai's drivetrain for their AWD Santa Fe is manufactured by Porsche. And the Santa Fe is a very durable car. We don't pamper it by any means. It has over 55,600 miles on it and it has been thru lots of abuse. We have had no problems with it whatsoever. As a matter of fact, we have not had any problems whatsoever with any of the Hyundai vehicles which we have owned. And they all had high mileage on them and were all put thru abuse. I am being truthfully honest to you here about our ownership experience with all of our Hyundai vehicles. As a matter of fact, we buy Hyundai cars because they cost LESS to buy than the overpriced Toyotas, Hondas, and Nissans. And on top of that, we get a BETTER warranty with the Hyundai than we would get if we had bought any Toyota, Honda or Nissan vehicle. Why spend more money when you can get a car of equal quality like a Toyota and Honda for LESS MONEY and with a BETTER warranty? These are the 2 biggest reasons why we have not bought a Toyota, Honda or Nissan in the past 8 years. They cost more and don't offer a 10 Year/100,000 mile warranty like Hyundai does. Otherwise, there is nothing else different about the Toyota, Honda and Nissan vehicles than the Hyundai vehicles. I bet that you will knock what I said down, but it doesn't matter. There are many millions of satisfied Hyundai owners like us who will give the same testament as I have about the Hyundai vehicles.
I don't want to go off the subject here, but I myself prefer to own and drive Mustangs. My sexy hot wife likes Mustangs, but she likes something more practical as an everyday utility vehicle for herself so that's why she owns a Hyundai. I just wanted to clarify myself to Stangar because he has made a mistake and doesn't know what he is saying here about these Hyundai vehicles.
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Tyler