I was in Minneapolis last week where we rented a Hyundai Sonata for two
weeks.  Felt reasonably heavy and safe.  But it's your call.

Cheers from steel own Pittsburgh, where I went to grad school in the 1980s.
Incidentally in my last visit in May I visited the Mon Valley Works.  They
were still using  1934 rolling mill and seem to be making money off it!

Anthony



On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 7:44 AM, michael perelman <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Everything I read about the Hyundai was great, but the car itself
> seemed to be made of the cheapest materials & hardly likely to stand
> up.  Very chinsey, compared to the cheaper Nissan parked next to it.
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Anthony D'Costa
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Doesn't Hyundai give a 10 year warranty?  They also make heavier cars.
> They
> > are popular in Europe too.  I thought the Koreans had moved away from
> > 'cheap' image.
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:00 AM, michael perelman
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I young student side-swiped our car a few days ago totaling it.  We
> >> need a new one.  I can do everything on a bike, but Blanche cannot.
> >>
> >> I had read that Hyundai was making good low cost cars.  We went to see
> >> them yesterday.  I was appalled how much of the car was made of cheap
> >> plastic that was very vulnerable and sure not to last.  It seemed like
> >> a disposable vehicle.
> >>
> >> The article about the quality of the GM cheap car struck home.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/business/with-chevrolet-sonic-gm-and-uaw-reinvent-automaking.html?src=me&ref=business
> >>
> >> The car made me think about the CPI.  I am sure that such quality
> >> deterioration will not show up in the cost of living, speeding up
> >> Obama's plan for undermining Social Security via the Consumer Price
> >> Index.
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