Kia Cerato Koup - Shock Horror!

a 7 year warranty sounds nice but it won't matter as most people won't keep the car anywhere near that length of time. Also interior quality of Seat's, VW's and Skoda's is not as good as they'd want you to think. Mmmmm scratchy plastic......

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Originally Posted by wedge

Korean cars come with 7 year warranty in the UK

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Some Kia and Hyundai models over here are covered by a 10 year / 150 000 KM warranty. Pretty confident these Koreans :p :

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Originally Posted by 555-04Q2

Some Kia and Hyundai models over here are covered by a 10 year / 150 000 KM warranty. Pretty confident these Koreans :p :

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Or maybe they know that people would have no reason to buy their cars if they came with the same warranty as the established European firms. You know they're pretty desperate when the biggest USP is the warranty.

It's not that their warranty is particularly good. It's that the warranties of the established brands are shockingly bad.

There is no reason why any new car shouldn't run reliably for 5 years or 120k as long as the service schedule is kept to.

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Originally Posted by Mark

It's not that their warranty is particularly good. It's that the warranties of the established brands are shockingly bad.

There is no reason why any new car shouldn't run reliably for 5 years or 120k as long as the service schedule is kept to.

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I would disagree. No matter how well designed a car is, things like electronics can fail at any time and with the fact that in Europe the roads are salted for a big part of the year the undeneath of cars over here cops a hammering. Any warranty that goes past 3 years or so will have a lot of conditions and get out clauses which will effectively make it worthless.

when are Kia cars being launched in India :cheese:

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Originally Posted by Daniel

a 7 year warranty sounds nice but it won't matter as most people won't keep the car anywhere near that length of time. Also interior quality of Seat's, VW's and Skoda's is not as good as they'd want you to think. Mmmmm scratchy plastic......

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They serve a market where private buyers aren't snobbish or want to keep up with the Jones, just a car that is well built and last a long time and cheap to own and maintain.

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Originally Posted by wedge

They serve a market where private buyers aren't snobbish or want to keep up with the Jones, just a car that is well built and last a long time and cheap to own and maintain.

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Of course but I somehow suspect that the sort of people who don't want to keep up with the Joneses won't generally be the sorts of people who buy a new car anyway. At the moment things are a little bit strange and there are lots of people like myself who would never have bought a new car who are doing so because of scrappage but I do think that when the money from the extension dries up it'll be the Kia's, Hyundai's and so on who will be worst hurt.

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Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow

Or maybe they know that people would have no reason to buy their cars if they came with the same warranty as the established European firms. You know they're pretty desperate when the biggest USP is the warranty.

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Thirty years ago your exact words would have been aimed at these crappy brands calling themselves 'Toyota' or 'Honda'. Personality free but reliable cars from some odd bit of Asia, who'd buy them when you could buy a proper car like a Rover or a Jaguar? Good old British companies those, you'd never see proper companies like that disappear eh?

As others have said, the snobbish British attitude towards brands isn't replicated in many other places but Brits seem to expect others to think the same way. Makers like Jaguar were left astonished when customers in places like the US decided to shift loyalties en-masse to new brands with no history or class like Lexus or Acura. Who'd have thought people would want a cheaper product that is just as good or better than the European competition?

I don't think Hyundai or Kia would have too much to worry from the end of the scrappage scheme, they'd be too busy building cars for the huge Chinese market and making bumper profits again.

Its a shame British complacency never disappears, its been the cause of death of many an excellent industry.

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Originally Posted by Dylan H

Thirty years ago your exact words would have been aimed at these crappy brands calling themselves 'Toyota' or 'Honda'. Personality free but reliable cars from some odd bit of Asia, who'd buy them when you could buy a proper car like a Rover or a Jaguar? Good old British companies those, you'd never see proper companies like that disappear eh?

As others have said, the snobbish British attitude towards brands isn't replicated in many other places but Brits seem to expect others to think the same way. Makers like Jaguar were left astonished when customers in places like the US decided to shift loyalties en-masse to new brands with no history or class like Lexus or Acura. Who'd have thought people would want a cheaper product that is just as good or better than the European competition?

I don't think Hyundai or Kia would have too much to worry from the end of the scrappage scheme, they'd be too busy building cars for the huge Chinese market and making bumper profits again.

Its a shame British complacency never disappears, its been the cause of death of many an excellent industry.

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All very true but you've got to consider these days that reliability is pretty much a given with cars so personality is what differentiates cars these days.

Personality is why when we wanted to buy a car I was initially wanting one of these

http://www.carpages.co.uk/fiat/fiat_...a-01-05-09.jpg

Yet we ended up with this for many thousands of pounds more

http://members.iinet.net.au/~fenix19...r/DSC_5717.JPG

Same car and in fact it's even less practical but I bet you know which one Fiat is selling at full price and which one Fiat is discounting by thousands.