Edmunds Comparison test. 22k family sedans.

[attgig]

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Comparos/articleId=106434/pageId=64745

accord vs camry vs sonata.




at 22k, i agree with the winner. with a bigger budget, it would probably come out different, but most "responsible" people don't compare cars based on features...they go by price, then figure out what they can get from that.

[InfiniteNothing]

I was saying this yesterday... I really like hyundai as a company, I'm just not in the market for any of their cars. They need to have more than price to set them apart from their competition, they need cars that you can't find anywhere else. Now the three niches I see for them (and maybe they'd have to spin off another "scion") is the on (metric?) ton roadster and the ultra lean hybrid (Honda is way to content with the current generation of Insight. I also wouldn't mind another sport luxury option.

[CornMonkey]

korea has come a long way... haha.

[bbrian]

It just seems like the things they focused on at 22K aren't going to be the types of things buyers would focus on if they were looking for a 22K car. :shrug: I mean if you can only afford a 22K car, do you really want a car that only gets approx 20mpg in town? They complained that in the camary that you couldn't hear then engine or feel the transmission shift... who buys a 22K camary to hear its 4-banger engine? Most people get a 4 cylinder camary or honda for mpg, not performance or sound.

It just seemed like an odd review to me.

[Agent Plissken]

Buy the Sonata... Ill sign it with a sharpie for you before it leaves (hehe j/k)