03-20-2018, 04:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-20-2018, 04:50 AM by FireIceTalon.)
^^Totally agree. American cars, usually, are pretty bad. Maybe if you are buying a truck or muscle type car, American makes aren't a bad choice, but for almost everything else....Japanese, Korean, and German makes are usually superior and last longer.
Toyota is nearly synonymous with "reliable" and has one of the strongest lineups of vehicles ever, though they are a bit pricey nowadays. I was originally going to get a Rav4, but for this years incarnation at least, the Sportage seems to be the slightly better (and slightly less expensive) car. The Sportage also felt like a slightly smoother drive to me, in particular during turns. Would take either one over any American made SUV though, easily.
It is pretty extraordinary how far Korean cars have come. In the early 2000's, they were kind of a laughing stock. But now, they generally make very good vehicles. Most of Kia's lineup is at or near the top of their respective classes, or at least comparable with most other makes on the market. Hyundai, to a lesser extent, seems solid now as well.
The Nissan Rogue and Honda CRV also seem to be good compact SUV's comparable to the Rav4 or the Sportage in the reviews I've read, though I never got a chance to drive those.
If money was no object, I would probably have gone even bigger with a mid-sized, 3-row SUV.....such as the Toyota Highlander or the Kia Sorento, but these are well out of my price range lol.
Toyota is nearly synonymous with "reliable" and has one of the strongest lineups of vehicles ever, though they are a bit pricey nowadays. I was originally going to get a Rav4, but for this years incarnation at least, the Sportage seems to be the slightly better (and slightly less expensive) car. The Sportage also felt like a slightly smoother drive to me, in particular during turns. Would take either one over any American made SUV though, easily.
It is pretty extraordinary how far Korean cars have come. In the early 2000's, they were kind of a laughing stock. But now, they generally make very good vehicles. Most of Kia's lineup is at or near the top of their respective classes, or at least comparable with most other makes on the market. Hyundai, to a lesser extent, seems solid now as well.
The Nissan Rogue and Honda CRV also seem to be good compact SUV's comparable to the Rav4 or the Sportage in the reviews I've read, though I never got a chance to drive those.
If money was no object, I would probably have gone even bigger with a mid-sized, 3-row SUV.....such as the Toyota Highlander or the Kia Sorento, but these are well out of my price range lol.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)