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NOS2Go4Me,Mar 15 2005, 02:04 PM Wrote:The Elantra is crap. I've driven 5 in the last 2 years alone, and NONE drive as nice, or move as well as the Focus. Plus, the standard power windows is frankly annoying. Some of us don't want stupid little rat wheels running our windows for us, or burning out in the dead of winter.

The engine is buzzy... it makes a friggin Crapalier sound like it came out of Lambo's factory. The transmissions are normally nice, but the suspension has more wallow than a herd of Hippopotami making their rounds of the Nurburgring. Absolute trash.

The interior screams "Grandma's car" more than any Focus ever will (even the 05), and the seats are laughable. Need I go on?

They're dirt cheap because they're made cheap. They're like crack for the automotively-challenged. They're available RIGHT NOW because you need wheels and don't have the time to spend making an informed decision. Just my 2 cents.
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Funny I've driven a 2002 Hyundai Elantra every now and then since my dad bought his in 2001, frankly the car had more power than my ZX3, my dad's Elantra has power everything while my ZX3 had power nothing, and the power windows on the Elantra don't make as much noise as you're complaining about.

The engine is not buzzy it's got torque where it counts and it winds up quite well for a 2L motor and it's geared quite well I might add, and altough it's comparing 2 slow cars the Elantra allways managed to outpace my ZX3 in a straight line no matter who was driving at the time, as for handling yes that's the only department where my ZX3 managed to outdo my dad's Elantra but I've driven a friends 2005 Elantra GT recently and it handled just as well as my ZX3.

They're dirt cheap because that's what cars like that should cost and if it's made cheap it should have more problems than the Focus wich it doesn't, the Elantra has given my dad 80,000 hassle free km's I wish I could say the same for my POS ZX3 Focus.

Laterz :)