yaya agree...i have started to bash since before its launch lolz...

er, actually, 2740 vs camry 7355 and 4332 accord is quite a good number.

you should see the previous gen of sonata, which is very very rare.

i can smell the butthurt-ness of Accord/camry owners..... LOL

Wah bro, how many thumbs you got la

This post has been edited by gregy: Dec 27 2011, 06:50 PM

lol... I was about to say RIP Sonata, but seems like a lot of people aren't pleased with K5's price tag

No they are, we just don't get them

For this they have the GDi 2.4, and turbo 2.0

A Navi upgrade at the most will cost RM2k (aftermarket). With or w/out Navi, the price is still a bit on the high side.

And no bi-xenons... I didn't know that until I tested it out myself this afternoon.

What? You mean the K5? I thought catalogue says it has?

If japanese gave you the same specs at 20k premium would you say it's overkill or justified because it's japanese?

The highest specced Jap D-segment at the moment is the Camry 2.0G at Rm155k OTR. In terms of spec, give or take this K5 is in the ballpark. So between 144k and 155k, the difference in percentage is a mere 7%. So are you saying that a Kia is rightfully only 7% cheaper than the class leader?

Yeah Bro. Japanese are overrated. Their quality of cars was better few years back, but since they know public has been supporting them, they have been careless with the quality of cars produced as well as image is getting boring by the year.

I've already placed the booking at Naza TTDI today. Hope the loan will be approved & i will be enjoying driving my car.

It has self-leveling directional xenons with washer, but nope, they aren't bi-xenons. Not that big a deal, but considering that they already gave those lights the full treatment, why stinge on a lousy flip shield?

That's all I'm sayin'...

Still o_o I am surprised people are complaining about the Optima, considering it's has so much more accessory compared with Sonata...

Kia optima K5 otr rm143,888 source paultan(facebook)
now i think with this price tag, is car wait for owner, not owner wait for car already.. lol

this is ridiculous expensive..same price with camry or accord liao..

At the spec level the it's more than 7% cheaper than the 'class leader', for eg. the Inifinity sound system which if the japs offered would be a minimum 10k option, plus the high performance dampers for the suspension which are tremendously good.

They give a lot of aftermarket stuffs as standard plus being 7% cheaper.

If just compare car to car, I dont think 143,888 is ridiculously high, but it is on the high side la, would had expected ventilated seat or navi with that price....

but, if compare whole package, ie spare parts availability, service center quality, then the differences comes in.......

Always like korean cars, got a hyundai with me, and with some of the sales man too, as a matter of fact, I change 2 of my other cars to the same agent to handle all insurance, road tax and claims, if any....

but, Hyundai service center? a big NO NO ..... got really fed-up with these ppl already.........
Now, Kia? so far heard from forte owner, you need to choose which one to go.......

If Kia's service center is good, I guess no one would really complain about the price.

Drop in resale value? that is becoz the brand image is not there yet la....... need time to change that

One thing i dont understand, is why is the rear speaker located off centre to the left? First time ive seen this in any car.

woofer

At the boot? I haven't go test yet...how was the Infinity sound system? Saw good feedbacks from forumers...

wrong pricing la... 143k for optima? accord 142k only lehh..