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Any Good,Honest Car Deals Out There?

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AngliaGT

AngliaGT

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Our Son (#2 kid of 3) is looking for a car to buy (with his money).
He's been driving our rusty '68 Ford Cortina.This is a kid that broke a Chevy-
Corsica,a car that I thought was unbreakable.
He's looking at a 2001 Hyundai Accent,for about $3000.I get a bad
feeling about this.Am I wrong?
Is there an honest deal out there?Where's Jack,in NM,when you need him?

- Doug
 
Doug, I had a 2003 Accent (same model) and put 80k miles on it with no trouble. Sold it to a friend, he's at about 130k now and still going along. Decent, cheap transport.
 
My son (the engineer) bought a Hyundai Elantra... mostly because it has a 100,000 mile (10 year) power-train warranty. It did drive well, and I think it gets good reviews. Don't know if that warranty is transferable or not.
 
Ten or so year old Ford Taurus or Buick Century. Lots of them around and plenty of metal around them. My younger son has a Taurus, if it can be murdered he would have done it. Buicks show up at estate sales if the family doesn't take them for their young driver. Both are geezer cars but what the heck. Both vehicles are big enough inside to use as trucks to move things, preferably out of your house, not back in.
 
I think it was an Elantra we rented when I went to my reunion in September. I will never, as in ever, own one of those things.
Open the door, get in, fasten your belt....and you cannot reach the door to close it. Take off the belt, lean WAY out, and you can just grab something. No real grab points on the doors. The "hip" on the rear doors. Swoops up, windows get narrower at the back...you cannot see out of the silly things to the right.
Auto trans....hunts all over climbing along 395 from Reno to Bishop. Kept shifting high and bogging, step down, shifts REAL low, about pegs the tach. Learned to go manual on the shifter to keep it where I wanted it.
No idea on an Accent, but if it's designed the same, no way, ho say.
Get him an old Escort.
Dave
 
TOC said:
I think it was an Elantra we rented....
Dave
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That says it all right there. Hyundai is the new Honda and Accents are decent cars. I don't like the automatic cars but other than that they are bullet proof. I built a Tiburon into a dirt track car and not only did it dominate, it NEVER (as in ever) broke despite having the crap beat out if it (literally and figuratively). I even won a race with the left rear wheel smashed up against the inner fenderwell so hard it locked in turns. Hyundai Performance forum has good support and decent folks too. If I don't buy a BMW I'll get another Tibby or a Genesis.
 
The 21 y.o here I claim as mine just wrecked his roomate's car today. Now no one has a ride to work.
 
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