rev up your engines today I'm gonna talk about Kia's this particular one is a
2017 Kia Forte not a bad looking four door sedan and they're not all that expensive
now this particular Kia was a rental car my customer just recently bought it was
about a seventeen thousand six hundred dollar car one new and my Customer paid
about ten grand for two years old not that bad of a deal really when you think
about it no way you're gonna get a two year old Corolla or a Civic for $10,000
it's just not gonna happen so if your budget consciousness of my customer
here's what you get for the ten grand shelled out got a 2-liter four-cylinder
engine puts out a hundred and forty seven horsepower I know this isn't one
of those crappy Jatco transmissions these hour korean-made six-speed the
Koreans put them in millions of different cars
Hyundai they used the same units good on gas thing gets 29 in a city and 38 on
a highway now yeah from a pure performance standpoint these
transmissions are somewhat sloppy they're not the smoothest shifting
transmissions in the world like I said it's not a race car they're lower priced
cars they're relatively dependable you have the normal amenities little screen
comfy bucket seats the cloth the back seats are actually quite comfy for a
smaller car got a reasonable sized trunk get some depth in here you can put a lot
of junk in one of these got disc brakes on all four wheels
but since the customer just bought of use we're gonna plug in a scanner see
what the energy saying well it's warming up check out the mileage on this thing
what's gone on it seventy two thousand four hundred and forty five miles can't
hide from the machine there's a VIN number take it for a spin see what comes
out there's all the info USA forte two-liter engine now it's scanning we'll see
what comes up what's half done hasn't find anything wrong yet no faults at all
that's great but of course as always tell people there's more than just cause
there's live down there so I'm gonna analyze the live data to scroll through
all the data see if anything so far it's pretty good lots of data on
these things there's no if ands or buts about that ooh the batteries 100% state
of health not bad for a two and a half year old battery as you know if you've
seen these before these are color coded so they're all black that's good they
come out red or orange there's a serious problem so far everything looks pretty
good now other than the transmission shift lag especially when you dog it
hard which is just kind of synonymous with these Korean transmissions they
don't fall apart they get phenomenal gas mileage they just don't have the oomph
of a really high quality unit transmission but this is an economy car
basically no not particularly a race car you step on the gas it goes it goes on
the road you can see what I mean about the transmission though when you get on
it kind of slips a little not really tight shifts it'll go but you can hear
it kind of freewheeling while you're gliding it's just you know not the
tightest transmission in the world it kind of reminds me of the old Chevy slip
and slide transmission from the 60s and they went down the road but they had a
bit of slippin and slidin while you're driving and it rides okay not the
smoothest ride but not the clunkiest either it still has the tried and true
hand emergency brake not that electronic crap that breaks down all the time it
has an actual key not just keyless remote where people can steal them where
you lose them it cost a fortune it still has a key keys are nice and safe they're
harder to steal they still got a nice that stuff in them
but you don't have to worry about so many getting a wireless system and
breaking into your car because this isn't a wireless you got to have a key
pretty sharp they're kind of that Mustang snarly glass I mean I'll copy
each other now it's no speed demons it will go 122 miles an hour which is
actually governed it could go quite a bit faster if somebody wanted to but for
a car to drive you around in relative comfort they're not bad cars sure the
legroom isn't the greatest but the back nice and comfy you got a nice
armrest it's pretty comfortable riding back here got a car that was two years
old saved about 7500 bucks paying only ten
grand it's a lot better dealing buying a brand new one
and then two years later you lose all that money somebody else took the big
head well in this case it was the company rental company cuz it was a
rental car for two years I am NOT a fan of rental cars but I'll tell you this
one is in decent shape even though it was made in Mexico why do they make of
Mexico cuz she's cheaper to make a man well in this case you pay less so I
guess in that extent it's a fair trade-off you're paying less for the car, so
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