2019 Hyundai Elantra?

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motorcy90

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That’s a lot of driving, about 60mi per day. Maybe you should also get an Elantra to pile the miles on ;).
it's the family hauler. It's made around 10 trips back home to Ankeny at 300+mi round trip, then a few 500+mi round trips to central Illinois to see family there. With the factory tires we were averaging about 25-26mpg hwy.
 

StevieISU23

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2008 Elantra was my first brand new car. $17K. Waterpump went out in 2 weeks (400 miles on it). Smooth sailing after that. I put about 85K miles on the car. All I ever did was change the oil, and put tires on at 50K.

LOVED getting 30-33 mpg. (once got 40+ mpg on a long trip to central MN).
2015 ($6,500)Sold it when the family grew--minivan for the Mrs.

I got to driver her Equinox/SUV.
Sold the Equinox a year later, bought a 2016 Elantra.

GREAT commuter car.
 

SCyclone

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The vixen had a 2006 Sonata that she drove for 12 years. It finally started needing some major repairs (fuel pump, etc) but overall it was a very reliable vehicle. Would definitely buy another one.
 

BoxsterCy

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All of these testimonials are useless without mention of what color the car is. The single most important factor in car section is the color. It must be a cool color and the color must be assigned an appropriately cool color name by the manufacturer.
 

Sigmapolis

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All of these testimonials are useless without mention of what color the car is. The single most important factor in car section is the color. It must be a cool color and the color must be assigned an appropriately cool color name by the manufacturer.

Mine is blue. Like this one --

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motorcy90

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All of these testimonials are useless without mention of what color the car is. The single most important factor in car section is the color. It must be a cool color and the color must be assigned an appropriately cool color name by the manufacturer.
ours is called Moonlight Cloud. Looks dark blue or black depending on the lighting/dirtiness . received_758283088331102.jpeg
 

Gunnerclone

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All of these testimonials are useless without mention of what color the car is. The single most important factor in car section is the color. It must be a cool color and the color must be assigned an appropriately cool color name by the manufacturer.

Do they even make black and white Elantras? I always picture Hyundai’s with weird colors.
 

motorcy90

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I've been eyeballing the new palisade, the wife had heard bad things about the ride of hyundai's SUVs from a coworker and squashed my dreams of the palisade haha Anyone have experience or heard about this "rough ride" with a hyundai?
cars.com just named it best of 2020.
 

CtownCyclone

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All of these testimonials are useless without mention of what color the car is. The single most important factor in car section is the color. It must be a cool color and the color must be assigned an appropriately cool color name by the manufacturer.

Pretty much the reason I bought my toy car. It was the right color blue. Le Mans Blue.
 

BoxsterCy

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For the record my favorite personally owned colors have been:
  • British Racing Green, aka BRG
  • Ocean Blue Pearl Effect, best Audi color ever. Hands down best car color I've had. And a cool name.
  • Guards Red
  • Monsoon Gray Metallic
  • Meridian Metallic, gives no clue as to where on the color wheel it might reside but it is somewhere between gray and silver.
 

motorcy90

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The only colors cars should be are monochrome...Black, grey, silver, white
Those aren't colors...
Except for my motorcycle (only offered in white that year) every vehicle I have owned so far has been an actual color.
So far it's been. blue, red, blue, red, blue, green.
 

cyclonespiker33

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All of these testimonials are useless without mention of what color the car is. The single most important factor in car section is the color. It must be a cool color and the color must be assigned an appropriately cool color name by the manufacturer.
My accent is Marathon Blue

I named her Blueberry (any Psych fans out there?)