Comments by "Trevor Sutherland" (@trevorsutherland5263) on "Car Confections" channel.

  1. A $65K Lexus and you don't get leather?? Inexcusable. MDX is more flexible, carries more, can tow more, has real leather, frankly looks better, and is less expensive. Umm, MDX 100% of the time.
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  2. The Tahoe truck-based design means if you tow or haul heavy loads frequently, the Tahoe is the better choice imho. However, if you rarely tow, and maybe just fill this with 6 or 7 people and cargo a few times a year. This is a great option. Just get the "tow package" on it with the transmission oil cooler. I had a 2012 Traverse that did not and by 8 years old the trans was dying because I have a big family and we go up into the mountains frequently.
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  3. That is probably the most stunning SUV I've ever seen. I always felt the Jaguar F-Pace SVR was the pinnacle of SUV looks, but this beats it, imho.
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  4. I don't like when EV prices are advertised with the tax credit subtracted. Give us the price, tell us it qualifies, that's it. To get the full credit you have to have at least that amount in tax liability and if you make over $150K you don't get it at all. Far too many variances for reviewers to just take it off the price.
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  5. It looks like a great deal, but time will tell. I'd have to see how that tiny motor is holding up 4 years from now. I'd go Nissan Kicks
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  6. This is a good vehicle with all the things that any Audi fan would want in their car. I can't blame anyone for buying it, but if you make that person test drive a VW Arteon SEL R-Line before making a final decision, very few will buy the Audi.
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  7. I'm a big Lexus fan and in the market for this type of vehicle but I think I will go with a '21 or '22. I just want a simple V6 that I know will last forever and I don't like that schnoz on this new one.
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  8. ..as usual five years from now anyone who bought the Hyundai will wish they'd bought the Toyota.
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  9. Unless you need the off-road (which the Kia has zero capability), you may as well just stick with the Telluride vs. a lower end JGC. The Telluride/Palisade are just SUV bodies on the Sedona minivan platform. At the GC Limited, Summit or higher level though the JGC is in a different class altogether. Massive off-road capability, Best in World ZF transmission. Real luxury trim as opposed to fake. If you put the V8 on there you are two planets apart from any Kia or Hyundai.
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  10. In a time when people are paying $80K for Broncos that you can see the body panels vibrate when you slam the door, paying $80K for this is like getting it for free.
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  11. I would totally get a GLE 350 over this. The interior in the GLE is an echelon above even the highest trim GLC.
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  12. 30 years ago, it was Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Mitsubishi in that order....Subaru and Mazda were OK too, but the domestics and Euros were all junk. Hyundai and Kia were lower than junk; they were 3rd World cars that didn't belong in the US. In fact, Mitsubishi licensed their engine designs to Hyundai in the 1990s; Hyundai only stopped using such designs in 2014. Mitsubishi is a big part of the reason Hyundai and Kia are not a joke today.
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  13. You don't build cars profitably for 100 years by following trend or making mistakes. Toyota was right all along: they can build 10 of these with the battery resources used by one BEV and not only will it cost less, it will basically eliminate 90% of ICE emissions with zero need to spend $100B to re-wire the world. Now that COVID has me WFH, 50 miles would last me a WEEK.
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  14. I said years ago the only reason Tesla looks good is they have no competition. When GM, Ford, VW, Diamler, BMW, Stellantis and Toyota join the party they will be swept off the Earth with ease.
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  15. Will Toyota ever put the 4-door into GR form? I'm over age 40 so I just can't get with the "attack beetle" look of hatchbacks.
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  16. BMW looks, especially the front, just....just....are NOT attractive. This one at least I wouldn't barf looking at every morning like the "pig nose" , but Benz and Audi are just uniformly beautiful up front. I will say though the interior space and cargo utility blows the M235i Gran Coupe out the water and +100 to BMW for the excellent quad tips. I would strongly consider this for wifey as we are coming out of a 2017 Alfa Giulia soon and while she loves the Alfa handling, she wants something easier to get into/out of.
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  17. 25 years of documented history that HyunKiaGen is basically the low-end of the auto market, right next to Dodge.
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  18. 100% certain it'll be better than that junk Kia ya'll bought a couple months ago. After 30+ years people still think Hyundia and Kia will change----cheap is cheap.
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  19. At $35K or under, you can drive this until the typical HyunKia quality shows up and dump it without losing too much money. However above that price it makes less sense, and maxed out at $43K you are nuts to buy this. Just spend another $35K and get an entry level Range Rover Sport. Believe me, even the clips holding the undertray on a RR will be of so much higher quality than what you'll see on any HyunKia, you'll sit in amazement in your garage for hours just looking at it. Overpaying for HyunKia products is madness; you are buying cars built to sell profitably at $30K, with "features" that push the price to $45K. When you buy a base RR you are buying a vehicle built to sell profitably at $80K-----that $50K difference in material quality is massive and pervasive. Even the hose clamps on a RR will be 10x the quality on even the most expensive HyunKia. Its just another $35K; most of you can stretch to get an $80K car if you can afford a $50K one.
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  20. Base model is $40K. Work harder...
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  21. That looks like a 1985 Mitsubishi Mirage Turbo time-warped to 2021. Makes sense in a way, Mitsubishi basically taught Hyundai and Kia how to build cars over the past 4 decades so it is good to seem them pay homage to the company that helped them.
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  22. Honda vs. Hyundai?? Are you kidding??
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  23. Is Nissan even building these? Over a year now since they've been on sale and I've seen more ugly Cybertrucks than beautiful Nissan Z's.
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  24. At $40K this is an ok value. Any more is a waste of money. Like all H/K/G products the pretty stuff will fade, peel, and crack withing 20K miles and you'll soon realize that yep!, you bought the cheap one. As long as you don't overpay that is fine as you can drive this thing and beat it to death and just junk it in 5 or 6 years when there is no value left in it.
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  25. Wow, those quad cannons on the back just scream "replace me with something deeper and louder!"
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  26. Who knew the 1985 Mitsubishi Mirage shape would be so popular 35 years later??? LOL.
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  27. Imho, the BMW 3-Series and the Audi A4 are basically untouchable in this class. The quality of those is head and shoulders above all competitors, the Benz C-Class is actually quite soundly beaten in quality by the BMW/Audi at this level, Benz isn't competitive until you get to E-Class or higher. A Genesis simply isn't even in the same ballpark from an engineering or build or material quality; even the Alfa Romeo Giulia has a vastly superior Ferrari-designed platform architecture to the G70.
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  28. My buddy got 2022 Palisade for about $34K and that is about what it is worth. With just 10K miles I could hear the exhaust tip rattling at idle when I was loading stuff in back. Typical Hyundai. All these people paying $50K or more for these is evidence the Fed needs to keep raising rates. Too much Monopoly money in the economy if these are going out the door at $60K or more.
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  29. Pretty sure no one who bought the previous 25 years of Lexus ES will buy this one. They should give it a new name because anyone who has desired an "ES" will look at this Mechagodzilla and be like wtf ???
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  30. Meanwhile my 2017 Alfa Romeo has a horrible reliability reputation but here it is at 92,000 miles and never, not even for one day or one hour, has the ZF transmission been anything other than perfect. You get what you pay for!!
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  31. In my experience Genesis can't match the euro makes when it comes to chassis dynamics. Hyundai doesn't have decades of F1 experience to draw on so high performance handling the euros always win. However since we have no autobahn here in US it makes little difference. Here they are equal to the European and Japanese brands.
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