rev up your engines today I'm gonna talk about why I
wouldn't buy a Kia in this case to 2008 kia sportage now the main reason I'm not
a kia fan is because over time they just don't hold up like better made cars do
as an example this baby's only got fifty thousand nine hundred and fifty two
miles on it but when I turn on the AC no cold air the AC compressor is already
broken and just to show the general cheapness of the vehicle here's the Sun Visor
it won't stay up it's flopping down it's just the general show of how cheaply
made these things are if I'd bought a car and then fifty thousand miles
AC compressor went out could buy I would never buy another one that would be
furious about it now you might think why aren't people buying these things well
they cost less but if you're really priced a differential it isn't all that much
today for example 2019 Kia Sportage it's only
less than two thousand dollars less than the base Toyota rav4 now if you go back
to when this thing was new 2008 the base price of this six thousand dollars less
than the base price of a Toyota rav4 but now it's less than two thousand
differential so it'll actually make more sense to buy one of these things back
then you were saving a reasonable amount of money but today you really aren't
there for less than $2,000 believe me I buy a rav4 long before I buy one of
these things now I've had customers with Kia's they had engine problems
transmission problems electronic problems in this case air conditioning
compressor problems stuff that you really don't see in the Toyotas but I've
also had customers that were relatively happy with the Kia's and the reason
behind out was they didn't keep the cars all that long but he didn't drive that
many miles one of my customers as a 10 year old Kia
but she's only got 60,000 miles on it she hasn't had any real problems with it
but she's not driving it much she was happy with the price then
and she recently got rid of the thing because she wanted a Ford Mustang she
got a v6 Ford Mustang the cheapest price one she could find and she's happy with
that but then again it for the next ten years she only puts on sixty thousand
miles hey you can pretty much buy anything outside of Fiat products and
you won't have too many problems on the plus side the Sportage is hey I got a
lot of room inside they got the split seats that lay back so you can carry
more stuff Asian style roof rack for extra stuff reasonable amount of space
in the back seat and the usual accessories of power windows power
steering airbags now granted these sportages they are like a small truck
they don't ride that well and even this one's only got 60,000 miles
hey just struts on it already are worn out it bounces around a lot and if you
find a low enough mileage used one they don't have such high resale value you
compare the resale value of one of these to a rav4 sure the ramp for sometimes
will be three or four times as expensive as the key is you can find a little
mileage one but I mean even there I'm warning you this baby's got 50,000 and
the compressor shot already of course even though they're smaller
SUV they're still in last year v my customer gets about 18 miles a gallon in
town on this thing and in the mid-20s on the highway until you get into stuff
like direct injection turbo charge your CVT transmissions and of course when you
put all that technology in a car there's no saying how long it's gonna last from
my experience they don't last nearly as long as the nine turbocharged engines is
the non gasoline direct engines that have regular fuel injection you add that
technology extra pressures things are just going to wear out fast but the
downside of this 2008 is it's a four-cylinder engine but it still got
the rubber timing belt it you got to change every once in a while
hack my 2007 Toyota Matrix even that back then has a timing chain and those
things basically last forever as long as you change your oil the chain is inside
all that oil stays lubricated and a gentler less just as long as the engine
I've seen those things with three hundred thousand miles they're still
original now there's no worry you're gonna get 300,000 miles out of a rubber
tell me about one of these things it's something to think about they just are
cheaper made vehicles there's no arguing there but half being cheaper made
vehicles they're not selling that much cheaper anymore as I said before yeah
$6,000 cheaper in 2008 but 2019 there was less than a two thousand dollar
difference between the basic grab for in the basic Sportage I definitely would
take a rav4 over one of these if the only thing I was saving was less than
$2,000 on a new one but as I said if you're a gambling man or a woman and you
want to buy a used one these things go a lot cheaper than the Toyotas do and you
find a little mileage one hey it could be a great Knockaround car yeah you're
only off that small amount of money instead of a whole bunch of money saved
you bought of a brand new car you can see a balance is quite a bit about a car
50,000 miles and struts we're all worn out the air conditioning compressor
broke I'll tell you I'd never buy another one of these things myself
now Kia at least in the United States does spend a small fortune advertising
in their cars and yeah their sales have been up sort of like people can be
fooled you see every time since they think oh wow those are Asian cars those
are great cars you know I'll just buy one do a little research before you buy
if you're gonna get a rant for for less than 2 grand more than this thing by
don't even think about buying one of these since the price gap is shortening
but the quality gap as far as I'm concerned it's still pretty far apart I
see no reason to bomb by a modern Kia maybe a used one like I said might get a
really good deal on one and it's still got a
lot of life left, so now you know a little bit more about Kia's and why perhaps you
should look elsewhere if you're planning on buying a vehicle, so if you never want
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