I bought a 2009 Hyundai Sonata new and liked it so much because it was a perfect family car with 4 doors, a large trunk, plenty of room inside and I never had a problem with it in 3 years. The only problem was that I wanted a sports car all my life and now was the best time to get one. I confess, I love the feel of rapid acceleration and drag racing is in my blood, so I looked for the fastest car I could get for under $60,000 and I found the Genesis Coupe Grand Touring was rated the fastest and way cheaper than $60,000.
Getting a 10 year warranty with it made the deal too good to pass up. It is essentially a 2 person car because only children can fit in the back seat comfortably but since I have no young kids this didn't matter. Quite a few V8 Mustangs and Camaros were surprised when a stock 6 cylinder shut them down. Sadly, I made enemies with one local bridge cop who has been sneaky enough to give me 2 speeding tickets and the next one will cancel my insurance policy.
It's 10 years old now and I have only had a bad starter and 1 flat tire so I feel it has given me more reliability than most new vehicles I have purchased and it still looks like new. I was taken by surprise when Hyundia announced they were going to stop making them because they had supported them so much in the past by entering them in the Pikes Peak road race two years in a row and each year winning and setting a new speed record against all comers. But the fact is that Americans still think of Ford, Chevy and Dodge when they are thinking about speed and the fastest car ever made in Korea is not known to most.
Have to laugh...
My dad bought his first new car around age 75 (4 years after my mom died. End of the day, he didn't like convertibles (he gets cold easily and lived in Pa at the time), BUT, since he was the one who was "good enough" to drive even at his age for extended family, he became everyones taxi service for long drives with members on both sides of his extended family which he hated becoming a taxi driver.
He wanted something that was too small for two adults in the back to ride comfortably, and something large enough to carry his golf clubs in the trunk. 2 doors only with a sun roof mandatory, and enough "get up and go" that he could accelerate if he wanted to on the interstate. He reminds me of you there.
Where he doesn't remind me of you is when he first came down to visit he surprised me to ask me to go out and look for a new car for himself (I guess I finally convinced him he could not take his money to the grave and NOT at least have some fun driving LOL).
We get out at a dealership in NC and I ask him, "OK dad, what's the top end of your price range you want to spend on a new car?". He looks at me at tells me seriously "NO MORE than $13,000"
(he's rubbed off me there as the most expensive car I / we've ever bought was my used truck at 16K). I asked him how much could he actually afford and not affect his way of living, and tells me "anything he wants" (I then convinced him to finance it and I was amazed that he agreed).
His last Honda I was surprised to find out from my son could do 0-60 under 6 seconds. He averaged around 35MPG with most of them when driving from PA to NC, and if he was doing 60 on the interstate, if he punched it, the cars had enough power to accelerate to 80 and push you back in the seat. He loved driving that thing with both windows down, sun roof open, and him blasting his polka's.
As mentioned, I just remember him mentioning about that Genesis coupe, but when he finds something he likes, he doesn't change.
Apologies, off topic.
Back on topic, I mentioned earlier, I have little doubt you will get your money back. However, if you bring up another Sam's club auto horror story, I'm not even going to bother to read it and say to myself shame on you
