Summary:
Gotta be rich to maintain this piece of...
Faults:
More wind noise than a helicopter in a category 5 hurricane.
Sunroof leaked more water than a 3 year old full of kool-aid.
Engine is slower than a drunk turtle.
Bad suspension and alignment. Pulled so hard to the right that I eventually had to start driving with the righthand blinker on. New tires and alignment twice in one year, still couldn't drive in a straight line if you put it on train tracks.
Master cylinder broke at 33000 miles. Replaced twice, continued to leak constantly. Started buying bottles of brake fluid by the carton.
Had to buy new inside door handles every month.
Stereo so quiet you could play it in a library.
General Comments:
Styling not bad for something its size.
Engine is reliable but can hardly keep up with the rest at speeds higher than 50mph. When in 5th at 60mph, engine sounds very overstressed. Better off just using it for city driving. When I test drove it, I got it up to 80, but I was two states away by then.
I bought it because I thought it was good on gas and reliable. Hmmmph, I won't go there.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? No
Review Date: 4th February, 2001
12th Feb 2001, 13:14
I had a 1.5LS too and everything went wrong...
Engine management screwed (took a YEAR for the main Hyundai dealer to fix), gearbox broke down at 50,000 miles (due to very poor quality bearings), heater matrix leaked coolant (very expensive repair), ALL interior heater knobs snapped off (cheap plastic is brittle in cold weather), clutch connections sheared rendering the car immobile - and that's not the half of it!!
