[Tigers] Very OT: Korean Cars

[Marc James Small]

I still have a pile of VW and Sunbeam parts
sinking into the dirt under my back deck.

My wife bought a 2004 Hyundai Elantra straight in
2005 and I was really impressed with it.  Then
she traded that for a 2006 Sonata slide-o-matic
and that has been our daily driver for the past
four years.  (I AM a geezer, at 63, and am very
much retired, while Pam works at home in senior
medical management, so we rarely 'daily
drive'.)  Now, she is buying her son-in-law's
2003 Santa Fe for me, a straight, of course:  I
have never owned a slide-o-matic and shall never
do so.  When I cannot figure out which gear to be
in, well, then it is time for me to be off the road.

The Koreans build great cars.  We put a thousand
miles on a Kia in Ireland a decade back and
another thousand on another one in Alaska seven years ago.

Hyundai seems to be the most profitable car maker
in the world at present, and I can see
why.  Wonderful cars, wonderful service.

Marc


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