The Buying A Car Thread

gcw

I ordered a new EV in April. Just an MG EV 5, via a workplace salary sacrifice thing. It’s been delayed 3 times now and the latest estimate is late Jan 2023. I’ve decided that if it gets delayed again come January , then I’ll cancel the order. So I may be looking for an alternative, interesting to hear the good reviews about Kia

mono-stereo

gcw problem is industry wide pal, we where waiting a year for our Audi. Silicon shortage.

Amps

rhouses because it’s a piece of shit SUV / 4×4 / twat panzer, the kind of thing only driven by people with tiny, tiny, tiny genitalia.

Matt

There’s a young lad who lives near me who has one. Looks quite young, probably his first car. Must have been taking some stick from his mates as he’s debadged it.

alistair

rhouses depends if you value gimmicks and an extended warranty over performance and design. They may be practical but Kia cars just look so damn ugly

Cankles-McJeggings

My Mrs has just bought a mitsubishi asx with 10 year warranty. 14 months she had to wait. Seems nice enough, bit small and a bit plasticy for me like all mitsubishi but again, with 10 years warranty you can just throw the cunt away at the end and it’s still cheap motoring.

BlainSA

Don’t think the Seltos looks that bad really. What about the MG HS Rhouses?

Cankles-McJeggings

BlainSA

It doesn’t look bad but it’s still a birds car. Mg’s are notoriously badly built. My mate is a mechanic and he’s said they are the worst cars he’s ever worked on. Like all the shite churned out in China it’s a massive swerve.

BlainSA

Cankles-McJeggings Quite liked the look of the Haval as well. Another Chinese job.

mono-stereo

rhouses Kia’s are good cars these days. We’ve got an q4 etron at the moment. Decent enough build quality but the sat nav etc is bab. With the exception of Porsche, VW group are crap at writing software.

Cankles-McJeggings

mono-stereo Kia’s are good cars these days

Kia head hunted the chief designer from Audi a couple of years ago, that is why they all look premium . Alistair, unsurprisingly is talking through his hole when he says they are ugly.

Mad_Cyril

mono-stereo problem is industry wide pal, we where waiting a year for our Audi. Silicon shortage.

@gcw

Cancellations are your friend.

Picked up my new motor by looking for dealer cancellations.

Not sure how that would work with a salary sacrifice thingummy though

Cankles-McJeggings

Ford , Hyundai, Kia and Mitsubishi are all over a year here. Or was.

BlainSA

Had a Chevrolet Captiva for a short while. Tank and all the warning lights kept coming on lol.

Cankles-McJeggings

BlainSA

Jeep are the same. Absolute pipe.

mono-stereo

Cankles-McJeggings interesting. Kia’s branding is good as well.

Good that we have the likes of them and Tesla if nothing else then to push ze Germans to up their own game a bit.

alistair

Cankles-McJeggings they’re really popular in Australia, but then again so is racism. Calling a black male a “chimpanzee”. I mean how the fuck did that go unchallenged on here!

Cankles-McJeggings

mono-stereo

The mechanic I’m on about just bought a fancy ford thing 4 wheel drive Ute kind of thing full spec. He waited 16 months and now he’s got it he says they’ve already updated it for a far better model/spec and his is top of the range.

Cankles-McJeggings

Cankles-McJeggings Jeep are the same. Absolute pipe.

Interested to see why you down voted this hursty, are you a Jeep owner? Jeeps are renowned for having all kinds of ridiculous and often major electric faults. They are all well known to leak which inturn causes electrical faults. I know someone who bought his wife one as a present , it was an absolute disaster. I think Jeep actually took it back and gave her a refund. From memory there was things like the windscreen wipers coming on when indicating and it was full of water every time it rained. They had it in countless times then just gave up themselves. I also know someone who owns a car rental company and they had a few wranglers and they were all exactly the same. He ran them for a year and gave them up because they were always in the garage getting fixed. The parts here are also a nightmare to get an often have to come from America after being ordered sometimes taking months.

mono-stereo

Yeah it’s nuts. Waiting times for CDJ 3000s now into next year.

Cankles-McJeggings

BlainSA

Yeh quite good looking but have you touched one? Everything feels like it will break and probably will. The grills on them are a bit too bling/chav though.

Cankles-McJeggings

The jump in quality in the last decade for Hyundai/Kia group has been astronomical from where they were. There really is very little in it now. The Golf is one of the ugliest cars about. It went from being the best looking to just not evolving.

mono-stereo

Cankles-McJeggings leccy version of the golf (id3) is surprisingly low rent inside and has an absolutely awful touch interface. Some say VW are having to cut corners in terms of quality to pay for diesel-gate.

BlainSA

Cankles-McJeggings Ah, a bit like Denon then.

Cankles-McJeggings

alistair

Fuck off Alistair you boring tedious try hard failing cunt. It went unchallenged because anyone with a functioning cerebral cortex could see there was absolutely no racial intent in it whatsoever.