rios or getz?

• julian_lim

  13 Oct 04, 08:33

  hi to all,
  can anyone kindly advise me on whether its more advisable to get a kia rios 1.5auto or hyundai getz 1.3 auto? how's the difference in terms of fuel consumption and reliability.
  thanks in advance.
• kiri

  13 Oct 04, 08:39

  kia
• blueoasis

  13 Oct 04, 09:03

  If u r not in hurry y not try out 4 'cityspeed' and test out first!!!
  
  
• julian_lim

  13 Oct 04, 10:52

  already is a member of cityspeed.because i use it quite often,every month pay a few hunreds for the carsharing therefore decide to get a car myself.
  thanks anyway.
• OrneryBoy

  13 Oct 04, 10:54

  I heard that Kia cars do used up more petrol
  But i do see lotsa ppl driving Getz, it's a nice 1.3L(A) car
• Bloop...

  13 Oct 04, 11:39

  I just got a Rio hatchback as a second car.
  
  I find it spacious, comfortable and pleasant to drive. I get pretty good fuel economy too.
  
  Can't do an actual comparison with a Getz (never tried one)... but just my POV as a new Rio owner.
• pqr

  13 Oct 04, 11:59

  already is a member of cityspeed.because i use it quite often,every month pay a few hunreds for the carsharing therefore decide to get a car myself.
  thanks anyway.

  I like to point out that although u do indeed pay a few hundreds of $$ for your car sharing scheme. therefore u feel is more worth to get urself a new car instead of using car sharing, but have you calculated the 1) road tax, 2) insurance, 3) petrol, 4) maintance and 5) interests for the loan u need to pay with the new car?
  
  Not to mention, the 3, 5, 7 or 10 years of loan that you are bound to?
  
  So, do your sums carefully cos although the monthly $ u pay for car sharing is indeed abt the same as you own a car, but the total sum at the end may still be cheaper.
  
  Just my thoughts and suggestion
  
• julian_lim

  13 Oct 04, 12:12

  thanks for all available advises.
  thought rios not bad but always hear people say kia cars are 'heavy drinkers' therefore a bit worried. thought want to get getz but check that the price just increased today to $54999.thought might as well pay around $61k for a vios.sigh...headache leh don't know which car to buy. any rios owners can tell me roughly how far can rios travel on 1litre of petrol?due to tight financial constraits got to work out the sum carefully lah.sorry for so many questions.
• Bloop...

  13 Oct 04, 12:36

  Originally posted by julian_lim:

  thanks for all available advises.
  thought rios not bad but always hear people say kia cars are 'heavy drinkers' therefore a bit worried. thought want to get getz but check that the price just increased today to $54999.thought might as well pay around $61k for a vios.sigh...headache leh don't know which car to buy. any rios owners can tell me roughly how far can rios travel on 1litre of petrol?due to tight financial constraits got to work out the sum carefully lah.sorry for so many questions.

  I never did a km per liter check for my Rio, but I can get to Malacca on little more than a 1/4 tank. To me that's good enough, if not great. So no fuel economy complaints from me.
  
  ( Best fuel economy ever!!! - Honda NR01 )
• pixy

  14 Oct 04, 23:42

  Originally posted by julian_lim:

  hi to all,
  can anyone kindly advise me on whether its more advisable to get a kia rios 1.5auto or hyundai getz 1.3 auto? how's the difference in terms of fuel consumption and reliability.
  thanks in advance.

  Have a read:
  
  Kia Rio
  http://autozine.kyul.net/html/Kia.htm#Rio
  
  Hyundai Getz
  http://autozine.kyul.net/html/Hyundai1.htm#Getz
  
  For your reference
  http://autozine.kyul.net/compare/Compare1.htm#Mini
• Ah Wei

  16 Oct 04, 00:22

  Personal preference.
  
  Rio over Getz............. thought i understand that the Getz is a decent car.