Comments on: Kia Pro_Cee’d in Nurburgring 24-hour

By: XR_2 Capri

XR_2 Capri — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:03:44 +0000

I found a sight that did the n24 live streaming, 2 f*****g days to late.

By: realcars

realcars — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:11:41 +0000

Good to see KIA demonstrating the reliability of a stock standard product.

To all u KIA and Hyundai knockers out there
u can thank them for the three year warranty on your new Toyota as it wouldn’t have come about without their competition.

Notices how standard equipment levels have improved since the Koreans have been raising the bar?

By: Reckless1

Reckless1 — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:54:13 +0000

Oh! Now I think I understand your logic – Lexus had problems, and finished well down the order. But it’s a better car BECAUSE it had problems. Oh, yeah, baby – that’s logic.

To summarise – One Kia in the race, one Lexus in the race. Kia finishes 5 laps ahead. Lexus is therefore better, according to Rofltic.

By: RoFlmaTiC

RoFlmaTiC — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:30:06 +0000

You’re not serious right Reckless? Half the cars were BMW’s and Porsches. A lot of them failed to finish due to technical difficulties, one would presume.

This is exactly what the Lexus had, look at the lap times.

Stick to your excel.

By: Richo

Richo — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:28:49 +0000

Yep people are correct, the Kia Pro_Cee’d (stupidist name EVER!) pre-dated the hyundai i30, however the current model hyundai elantra predated both of them! All three cars ofcourse share the same platform.

The Kia is probably the looker of the three, and apparently is the best to drive and the most well built one too. Kia’s are essentially hyundai’s with a Kia badge these days though so its not like there is any bragging rights, all owned and run by the same management

By: Reckless1

Reckless1 — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:24:42 +0000

I’m not sure the “slow and steady” can be applied to diesels, after all, Audi has won the Le Mans 24 hour numerous times with a diesel. Seat is winning races in the British 2.0 litre class with the diesels.

The results sheet looks like the rest of the world were excluded, leaving only German cars……but there were a sprinkling of foreign cars.

Rofltic, you have no logic skills. Kia did not place ahead of all the cars you mentioned. It did comprehensively thrash your Lexus, though.

By: themarvel

themarvel — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:13:22 +0000

Interesting the diesel “slow and steady” philosophy can pay off – the results of the latest Nurburg 24hr prove it with a BMW 320d coming in 13th!!! That is better than any of the Astons, most of the M3’s and lots of Porsches and every other entrant. In fact, the top 16 was comprised of 8 Porsches, 4 BMW’s, and the 2 VW Siroccos. Pretty small selection when you think about it.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:25:09 +0000

I would buy that if Kia sold it here. Looks so much better than its Hyundai cousin. and interior pics from KIA’s UK site arent half bad.

By: RoFlmaTiC

RoFlmaTiC — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:48:58 +0000

By your logic kia is also better than bmw and porsche and just about everybody. Take a look in the other thread at the placings and look at all the retired cars.

By: RoFlmaTiC

RoFlmaTiC — Mon, 26 May 2008 14:47:15 +0000

Just tell that to the next lexus driver you pass in your kia Reckless1…

I’m sure they will care.

By: Reckless1

Reckless1 — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:48:58 +0000

For all the wankers who think Kia cars are crap, let it be known that this car lapped the Lexus LF-A 5 times during the race. Straight from the showroom (except for compulsory race safety items like roll cage)

And it looks better too!

By: davidt

davidt — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:47:10 +0000

Martin, quite right the Ceed family of vehicles preceeded, forgive the pun, the Hyundai i30 by some time. This vehicle sells gangbusters in Europe, about 130,000 a year, is available in convertible, wagon, hatch and five-door and having driven both the Ceed and the i30 i’d have to say the Kia is an even better drive than the Hyundai.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:23:19 +0000

It’s not a clone… I have known of the Cee’d WAY before the i30.

And personally, it’s much better, I like the look of it more, and you get different variants, rather than just the one hatch.

BTW, anti-spam Kia.

By: Frugal One

Frugal One — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:03:32 +0000

*****PRIMO!*****

A hyundai i30 clone!

When will they sell it here?

Be ok for $9999 driveaway no-more-to-pay!

Cheers

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