You would regard the current generation Hyundai's as 3rd rate compared to US models??? Talk about deluded.....
I've followed Kia and Hyundai. While the latter's gotten better, trhe
> former is still junk, and unreliable.
>
> My friend had a 1st generation Hyundai. It ate trannies, it couldn't
> break 70 wih the A/C on, and lots of other weird 'issues' with it. The
> more recent ones are supposedly better, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
> As for Kia, I hear nothing but horror stories about them. Not to > mention Daewoo...
>
> The Japanese quickly adapeted to the US market w.r.t. build level and
> reliability, and they became sucessful as a result. The Koreans > haven't...
>
> I still regard ANYTHING Korean as 3rd rate behind Japanese/European or
> US offerings, and anything Chinese / Taiwanese as 4th rate. They're
> just not well built or well designed. I deal with LG's so called
> 'quality' all the time at work and they suck badly. We have tons of
> problems with LG contactors (litterally piles of them in the dud box),
> but the Mitsubishi and Telemechanique stuff just keeps on working... > --
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