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I am not debating the quality of Hyundai...although i do think they stink...my beef is with your reliance on JD Power and Associates. When I was an undergrad...only 3 short years ago...i took a statistics course and wouldn't you know my text book had models of incorrect and manipulative statistical analysis...and guess who was inlcuded in that...good O'l JD himself....you see in the automotive reliability stats that they compile, they simply count up the number of complaints/repairs per model and manufacturer. There is no accounting for the gravity of the malfunction. in other words...a burnt out tail light buld or a blown fuse gets counted the same as a blown motor or a fried transmission...despite the fact that a tail light bulb may cost $5 with labor and a blown engine could be $10,000 or more. as far as I am concerned this is not a good way to determine if a car is valuable, unless of course no problems of any kind were ever reported in any specific unit of the specific model and make you are looking for. I have never known a car to have no problems of any kind for any significant period of time....so in otherwords JD is BS. This is clearly an abuse of numbers, and riding the boarderline of fraud...I would be leary of relying on any of the magazines etc..opinions regarding the reliability of any particular car....a lot of homework must be done including looking into who funds the magazine...I advised my mother to purchase an 03 VW Passat turbo...every major car magazine ranked it in first place in it's class destroying Accord, Camry, Sonata and obliterating Taurus, and indeed the car had the cleanest ride and best fit and finish of all of it's competators...including the Volvo C70 that we looked at which incidentally cost about 60% more than the VW...well to make a long story short...that VW has been the biggest hunk of crap that we have owned and we have owned a Saturn...in the first 12 months the car was in the shop 5...yes 5 times for ignition malfucntions...recalled ignition coils would only be replaced one at a time, and for those of you paying attention at this point...you should note that with 5 replacements...one of the replaced coils malfucntioned twice...Way to go King Kraut!...Meanwhile, the car has had a headlight that goes out approximately every 10,000 miles and as the car is under warranty...all they do is replace the bulb and refuse to examine the wiring. Not to mention that the cd player..(which is an option that we not included on the build sheet for our car, but was installed anyway...) periodically works and then doesn't...the interior is coated in a thin rubberized film which flakes off like dandruff, interior lights periodically have malfunctioned and if you depress the trottle to the floor with the floor made installed in the drivers foot well, the pedal will become stuck under the mat, which is snapped down to the floor....causeing...you guessed it uncontrolled excelleration....wow! all that for only $27k??? What a heap...and JD Power said it was a "Best Buy"....If you look around other VW owners are experiencing the same types of issues, so it is not a friday night/monday morning car. I wonder how JD would rank my 343,000 mile 244DL which costs about $500 in maintainence per year if you add up the 15 or so little issues that crop up....Just a thought... thanks for reading my rant
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