So my girlfriend is tired of her Jetta and wants something that I consider to be worse, a Hyundai Veloster; her reasons are 100% aesthetic, i.e., "It's pretty!". Anybody have experience with these things? She gets anxious with things that might have costly maintenance, and I'm especially leery of it having a DCT automatic.
We're going to go check one out later, but I don't know a heck of a lot about these cars other than they look much faster than they actually are (138hp? Seriously?).
I'm trying to convince her to get a Boxster. She won't bite due to maintenance worries. But c'mon that's what I'm here for!
Can't speak to the longterm, but had one as a rental car after enterprise
completely dropped the fucking ball on getting me the camaro ss that I ordered weeks in advance
looking kind of cool is about the extent of joy you can get out of that car, unless you're way into gas mileage at the expense of struggling to even hit highway speeds. The ride quality was awful, which I guess would be fine if the car was at least sporty, but with that anemic engine and slow, sloppy transmission I'm not buying the tradeoff.
There's a turbocharged version that makes something like 199hp that might make the car a bit more driveable from an enjoyment standpoint, but it'll also cost more, which sorta goes against the entire appeal of looking cool for dirt cheap.
Admittedly it was surprisingly spacious (I had no problems in it at 6'4) so I guess there's a smidge of practicality in there, but I dunno. Take one for a test drive, try to find some shitty roads to drive on to see if she can deal with the ride. Hell, I even found the car unbearably bumpy on some highways.
