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Does this remind anyone else of the new Focus front end?
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Has headlights A-LA-Echo, and a front bumper and lower grille A-LA-Focus...Hyundai is bad for this now too, but in retrospect...why pay the money for a car like an Accord, when you can buy a V6 Sonota that looks like one, for a LOT less...
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Drivesthebeast,Nov 10 2005, 12:08 PM Wrote:Has headlights A-LA-Echo, and a front bumper and lower grille A-LA-Focus...Hyundai is bad for this now too, but in retrospect...why pay the money for a car like an Accord, when you can buy a V6 Sonota that looks like one, for a LOT less...
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Agreed. Plus the KIA's have that whole 10 yr warranty thing available... hard deal to beat.
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Kinda repost. I'm too lazy to bring up the link.
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Punch into a computer the following paramenters:
4 wheels
4 doors
4 or 5 passengers
trunk
length = x
width= y
drag co-efficient=z
and every manufacturer will come up with the same look.
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Welcome to the swamp......AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE. Reminds me of the new Accent, oh wait, it IS the new Accent.
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The more vehicles they can make off a single platform, the cheaper they all become to manufacture - it's called badge engineering.
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Personally I think they look like the Ford Ikon, or a clone of them.
here is a link to the Ford Ikon
I was the only member on this board with a Yellow Focus Sedan, and a 2002+ Euro Facelift on a sedan.
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It's new, cheap, and affordable....who cares...I'd drive it~
I saw the hatch version the other day and crunched numbers...it truly can be had for under 12G's....Rio5 is suprisingly nice!
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ZTWsquared,Nov 10 2005, 03:04 PM Wrote:The more vehicles they can make off a single platform, the cheaper they all become to manufacture - it's called badge engineering.
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Nobody can beat the king at that game aka General (generic) Motors.... :D
Able to squeaze out no less than 5 brand vehicles from a single platform!
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i saw a car the other day that looked like an sti, think it was a kia as well.
'02 CD Silver SVT
All the options
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svt_rodg,Nov 10 2005, 02:39 PM Wrote:i saw a car the other day that looked like an sti, think it was a kia as well.
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Kia has an appearance package that includes a non functional hood scoop and a rear wing.. makes it look like a mini WRX, only the engine is the same as the stock Kia Rio.
The Korean car manufacturers are improving a lot, but you can really tell where they are cutting the costs.
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"The sporty Rio runs the regular 71kW 1.5-litre engine and takes 15 seconds to go from 0-100km/h.
By comparison, the $55,130 four-wheel-drive turbo WRX STi that it mimics has 195kW and can dash from 0-100km/h in 5.5 seconds."
It was sold here a couple year's back as the "sport pac Rio Sedan" the quote is from the link below which I believe is an Aussi car mag.
http://carsguide.news.com.au/news/story_pa...5E21825,00.html
The next funniest car after the Kia is the Mitsu Ralliart Lancer.
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Drove my buddies Santa Fe today...not bad...steers and corners like a car, has a somewhat peppy engine (2.0 Beta from Tiburon) when mated to the 5-speed. It's rather big....and the plastics and whatnot inside look cheap...and the accents inside are overdone like other asian vehicles too. Umm sorry about changing the subject a bit...it's an ok vehicle, but I'd still take a Ford Escape XLT V6 over it hands down...
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