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v12 · 13th May 2004, 11:22

Hyundai's quality levels are on par with the Japanese counterparts.

Its all in the minds of the people that Hyundai is low on quality and is a cheap car. Well it is to some extent. If Hyundai never copied designs of other car manufacturers it wudnt have been in the bad books of many auto enthusiasts. But thats a different case.

In the US, Hyundai conducted a "Brown-Bag" Test that had 2 cars, a Sonata and a Camry, completely wrapped [except windows] so that you cudnt make out one from the other. Out of the 528 people who test drove both the cars chose the Sonata as their fav car.

So even though majority picked the Sonata over the Camry, the Camry still sells almost 5-10 times more than the Sonata. Its all in the mind.

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v12 Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mumbai Posts: 2,819	Hyundai's quality levels are on par with the Japanese counterparts. Its all in the minds of the people that Hyundai is low on quality and is a cheap car. Well it is to some extent. If Hyundai never copied designs of other car manufacturers it wudnt have been in the bad books of many auto enthusiasts. But thats a different case. In the US, Hyundai conducted a "Brown-Bag" Test that had 2 cars, a Sonata and a Camry, completely wrapped [except windows] so that you cudnt make out one from the other. Out of the 528 people who test drove both the cars chose the Sonata as their fav car. So even though majority picked the Sonata over the Camry, the Camry still sells almost 5-10 times more than the Sonata. Its all in the mind. __________________ Enfield Cafe Racer completed. Yamaha Cafe Racer started.