I’m not sure about that. A few years back it was actually the case that the warranty was, weirdly, inversely proportional to the reliability. I’m not sure why, but companies like Toyota and Honda had relatively short warranties and much better reliability than companies with longer warranties.
Also Hyundai / Kia have had a what feels like a lot of misses in terms of models that were really unreliable. There was that story on Reddit years ago about how it took the dealership something like 7 engines to get the a car through the 10 year warranty. (Apparently that wasn’t that uncommon for that generation.) They’ve also had a few high profile recalls for engine failures and inordinately high failure rates on some of the non-recalled vehicles.
Hopefully they’ve improved in recent years, but last time I went to buy a car, their reliability numbers weren’t good IMO.
Hyundai as a whole probably have less issues than most. That 7 year warranty is something they don’t want to be back at the shop for.
I’m not sure about that. A few years back it was actually the case that the warranty was, weirdly, inversely proportional to the reliability. I’m not sure why, but companies like Toyota and Honda had relatively short warranties and much better reliability than companies with longer warranties.
Also Hyundai / Kia have had a what feels like a lot of misses in terms of models that were really unreliable. There was that story on Reddit years ago about how it took the dealership something like 7 engines to get the a car through the 10 year warranty. (Apparently that wasn’t that uncommon for that generation.) They’ve also had a few high profile recalls for engine failures and inordinately high failure rates on some of the non-recalled vehicles.
Hopefully they’ve improved in recent years, but last time I went to buy a car, their reliability numbers weren’t good IMO.
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I guess once you boil it down to brass tax the extra 4 year warranty only costs around 1,500. That’s to us so the cost to manufacturers is tiny.