Some Thoughts on Buying a Kia Soul Yesterday

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57. As someone who knows a lot about cars, the Kia pleasently surprises me.

As someone who knows a lot about cars, the Kia pleasantly surprises me. I think I like all the cars in their line. The only thing I've seen bad about Kia's was a few years ago where some test rag complained how the engine didn't run as smoothly and had rough edges. I think they've fixed that.

I thought of buying the new Kia, the Forte Coupe. I also prefer to buy American but so far, my garage is filled with foreign cars except one is built in the USA.

Kia has a great warranty.

It sounds like the dealer was up front with you and it doesn't sound like their usual tactics where the salesman is on 'your side' but he needs to leave the room and present it to the bad cop (manager or finance d-bag) and then the salesman comes back and says he won't move. They wring as much out of you and then the mystery man makes a magnanimous deal which is supposedly their best. The best thing is to simply leave but make sure you waste at least an hour of their time. You'll soon get a phone call saying they were ready to meet your terms. Your dealer experience sounds like it was pretty good.

It's also odd that you would find a car from Japan or Korea that wasn't loaded. Usually imports from Japan or Korea come with all the upgrades since they only have so many and it's not like you can order a car with what you want unless you want to wait along time until it comes in, that is if they let you.

Congratulations on your purchase, you got what sounds like a good deal and nice to know it was below your limit. Do you have AAA? I would get their road policy that covers them towing your car up to a 200 mile limit.

My recommendation is to go over the warranty and see what it covers and then note any issues with the car, see if it's covered and bring the car in. I bought a used car with a warranty and I went through the warranty with a fine tooth come and would bring it to the dealer complaining of whatever high dollar area that was covered. I got several thousand dollars of repairs that end up coming in over twice what I paid for the warranty.

Kia, really burst onto the scene. Anyone remember when Hyundai came here? Their first cars were not the most reliable and you would see new looking cards belching smoke. They cleaned up their act and now their cars are OK. Kia came in and although their first cars were made from the tooling Mazda sold them for the Protege, they were good cars. The parts even interchange.

Please let us know in a month what you think MM.