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KIA builds a car that isn't ugly

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Saturday, April 11, 2009 3:18 AM

WHOZIT


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,514040,00.html

I'm not big on red cars unless they're muscle cars, (or Fire Trucks) but I think KIA has hit a home run here. I'm sure it'll come in other colors.


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Saturday, April 11, 2009 7:31 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Yick, if I was gonna shell out that kinda dosh for a big red widebody monster as subtle as a chainsaw, I's start with a Mitsubishi 3000gt VR4 and take it down to Rays to have it pimped out.

Hell, there's one just down the road a ways in Madison WI goin for $22,900.00 USD with less than 30,000 miles on it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1991-Mitsubishi-3000GT-VR4-w-26-411-Mls
_W0QQitemZ250404483050QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item250404483050&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=65%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1308


And as a bonus, you can actually find a haynes or clymer for it, and a mechanic that won't run screaming at the sight of it!

In fact they're more likely to flock TO it, with a tim taylor gleam in their eye and a tiny bit of drool forming at the mere thought of being allowed to play with THAT cause there's just so MANY options...

Only downside is the damn thing is so ungodly heavy, but it's not like most of my other car fetishes didn't have that problem either, the 71 Plymouth Hemi-Cuda weren't no liteweight herself - although the VR4 does have this rather bizarre handling somewhere between muscle car and rice rocket, THAT takes a little gettin used to, it does.

Kia can keep their $50k toy, I think - honestly I doubt it'll sell well enough here to justify it.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Saturday, April 11, 2009 9:10 AM

WHOZIT


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Yick, if I was gonna shell out that kinda dosh for a big red widebody monster as subtle as a chainsaw, I's start with a Mitsubishi 3000gt VR4 and take it down to Rays to have it pimped out.

Hell, there's one just down the road a ways in Madison WI goin for $22,900.00 USD with less than 30,000 miles on it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1991-Mitsubishi-3000GT-VR4-w-26-411-Mls
_W0QQitemZ250404483050QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Cars_Trucks?hash=item250404483050&_trksid=p4506.c0.m245&_trkparms=65%3A2|39%3A1|240%3A1308


And as a bonus, you can actually find a haynes or clymer for it, and a mechanic that won't run screaming at the sight of it!

In fact they're more likely to flock TO it, with a tim taylor gleam in their eye and a tiny bit of drool forming at the mere thought of being allowed to play with THAT cause there's just so MANY options...

Only downside is the damn thing is so ungodly heavy, but it's not like most of my other car fetishes didn't have that problem either, the 71 Plymouth Hemi-Cuda weren't no liteweight herself - although the VR4 does have this rather bizarre handling somewhere between muscle car and rice rocket, THAT takes a little gettin used to, it does.

Kia can keep their $50k toy, I think - honestly I doubt it'll sell well enough here to justify it.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

This KIA has a 173 hp motor, the Cuda needed a massive 425 hp HEMI motor (which is cool) to move it around.

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Sunday, April 12, 2009 3:49 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Being Korean, there's every likelihood that it will be at least 500 pounds heavier than a similar Japanese model.

Stylistically, it looks like a Honda Civic Si that someone threw the front bumper from a Mitsubishi Lancer at. And neither of those cars cost much more than $20k, while both have better than 173hp on tap.

Coming of age in the 'Nam era, I still can't get over the idea that someone named a car company "Killed In Action".
But that's just me, I suppose...

ETA: Now, I *DO* rather like the Hyundai Genesis Coupe. If I'm buying Korean, Hyundai has improved by leaps and bounds over that horrid Excel they used to offer.



The Genesis is good looking, the Azera is actually pretty, and even the Sonata doesn't look bad. And they seem to be quite good, too. And if you think a Hyundai can't be fast, ask the guy in Arizona who got the 147mph speeding ticket in his Sonata. He tried to claim the car won't do that, but road tests by all the major magazines proved that it really will!

Mike

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Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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