btw, “bottom of the line in the US” makes no sense in your post. Feel free to learn the idioms of the American language properly.

For amusement, while I’m sitting in my black 97 Hyundae Avante, parked at the five-minute long red lights, I count the number of color cars. It’s about 5%. Every other car is silver, white, or black.

This comment is 30 years too late. 98% of Korean cars were black in the 1970’s. At the time, I bought a maroon Hyundai Pony with a black top that made it look like a convertable - an homage to the Mustang.

Korean cars have improved considerably. But the reason for their gains in the US is price vs. value, not design or status, which is still copycat.

As for status, it amazes me that Koreans mistake a Lexus for a luxury car when it’s in fact pretty basic molded plastic, little more than an upgraded Toyota. Still, I’ve got to give Koreans patriotism credits for driving Hyundais, which are pretty much considered the bottom of the line in the US.

I’ll agree with the former if you change “has” to “is” and “long” to “big.”

I thought about posting about that when it was first announced, but I realized part of it was smoke and mirrors. Last year Hyundai/Kia was 6th, but that was before Daimler chucked Chrysler so now their car sales are counted separately.

That would be a negative on the meaning of my initials. Apparently you’re a big fan of playing video games (while smoking pot).

Are you projecting your childhood onto others? Don’t assume that others were conceived in the same manner as yourself.

Does “tripod” refer to the number of feet you have or your height?

That might be a global trend.

As my flag shows I am in the U.S. Just now I took a quick look into the parking lot in front of my window and I saw twenty-four cars. Only four of them were NOT white, black, silver, or gray. One of the four was dark maroon, one was light gold, and the other two were silver-blue (blue enough not to count as silver).

Make that twenty-five cars, since a gray minivan just pulled up.

So is the actual design… I’ve seen interviews of Korean car designers when asked why their car designs are so conservative, and they responded that it’s hard for them to design a car that must appeal to the style interests of say, Americans, while keeping it from being too flashy to appeal to the relatively conservative domestic market.

Josesiem - A good point.. I think there is a general brain-drain from Korea because truly ‘different’ thinkers don’t fit in so very well. At any rate that is the case with my friend..