Quote Originally Posted by dspace9 View Post
Kia's are way better than the first generation Kia's. My sister had one of the first ones, 2000 or 20001 maybe, with an automatic and it was a slow car. But then her 2006 Kia Rio ? was really nice and nimble but she traded it in. Not sure why.
I had a 1995 Sportage back in the late 1990s. Man, you wanna talk about 'an early Kia'. That thing didn't even have a Kia engine in it. It had the same 2.0 that Mazda put in the B2000 pickups back in the 1980s. Matter of fact, it didn't even have any airbags.

Reliable rig, but I could never keep a set of auto-locking hubs in it for very long. They would always fail, and I think I went through about three sets.