Just curious-
After doing travelling I noticed Americans really hate Hyundai and say they’re super unreliable and avoid at all costs
In Australia I’ve heard lots of people like Hyundai and they’re pretty reliable. They’re not a Toyota but they’re still decent. People love the food ol Getz as a learner car and that thing goes on for years!!
What gives? Why such a big disparate
Hyundai have done their time in Australia and listened to market feedback. The early ones were pretty awful, but the ‘bubble’ generation of Excels were cheap and cheerful. They did suffer a few known maladies. I must have changed 100s of cam and crank sensors in those things as they aged. But they were a good price point for what they were and sold pretty well. This means a lot of people got to have a drive or know someone who owned one. They did the job and the rep bounced from ‘shit’ to ‘crappy but cheap enough’.
The Getz was a very smart release, simple and nearly bulletproof. It capitalised on the perception of cheap disposable runabouts. But then, they went forever and cost fa to run. So they got another bump in reputation. Meanwhile the i20-i30 line kept steadily improving, to the point where people started noticing that these cars are actually pretty good and now even look halfway decent (I remember something about them getting some Mazda designers involved?).
Then came the N series. And it turned out they could actually make a pretty neat and fun ‘performance’ car. It was a pretty big turning point for myself when my brother in law bought one. He’s had all manner of Japanese performance cars, WRX, RX8, Skylines etc and also some pretty wild turbo VWs. For him to choose an N as a new purchase, for me, cemented that Hyundai had really ‘arrived’ in this market.
Edit: just looked and it seems a BMW designer was responsible for improvements in the looks department.
What puzzles me more is that Americans say Jeeps are reliable but everyone I’ve known to own one in Australia has nothing but problems with them?
I think because Hyundai’s in the states are American built aka rubbish and therefore have such a poor reputation for reliability, so that’s where most of the hate comes from.
Whereas we get mostly Korean made vehicles which are going to obviously be of a higher quality.
Cars aren’t the same in all markets. I think the US was hit pretty hard by the Theta II engine failures, not to mention the more recent spate of thefts by the “Kia Boys” exploit.
Americans hate everything that isn’t American. They do not believe that any country can do anything better than them. It’s that simple
Because the American built Theta-II engines that they put in everything were exploding left, right and centre for a couple years. We didn’t have that issue because the AUDM models were built (I believe) in Korea, where they had much higher standards of quality control.
Americans are arrogant and obnoxious.
Americans have belief in the quality of their products.
Even though they shouldn’t.
American cars are similar quality to Chinese.
Because americans are taught that driving anything other than a murican truck means you’re a pinko commie faggot. Even though their shit cars are full of Chinese, Taiwanese, Indian and Pakistani components.