It’s easy to make a great $300,000 car. It’s much harder to make a great $30,000 car. Hyundai just unveiled the 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe and it’s another reminder of how quickly the Korean automaker has radically transformed from a builder of mediocre cheap cars to a designer of great affordable ones. It’s Hyundai’s world, […]
    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      As a former Hyundai and Kia tech, exploding was incredibly rare. Usually they just seized because of oil starved crank bearings. I only ever heard of one that actually exploded with flames, and thats because the owner wasn’t taking care of it and driving with a leaking fuel line.

      • Mike D.@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Perhaps exploding was the wrong term but that doesn’t excuse them from having two engine families with issues and not supporting the owners. I had fight to get the engine replaced.

  • Aguywithlegs @lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This completely ignores any drivetrain failures that are prevalent in their entire line up.

    Also just sweeps the glaring theft issues under the rug