Hyundai Elantra Touring
Warren Brown of The Washington Post wrote a review on the Hyundai Elantra Touring. Unfortunately for the Elantra, the review was not raving about the good, but more commenting quite a bit about the not-so-good. He says that the Elantra Touring is a “nifty, nimble city runner. The more congested the traffic, the better it seems to behave.” This hatchback/compact car has 65 cubic feet of cargo room, which is as much as many compact sport-utility vehicles. It has a 2-liter, 138-horsepower, four-cylinder engine. It gets 23 miles per gallon in the city and 31 miles per gallon on the highway. It is a front-wheel drive vehicle.
So, I guess you are wondering what Brown had a problem with, and he sure did have a problem. He took the Elantra Touring on a little roadtrip, and it was a nightmare. The car was packed with almost 400 pounds of cargo, and because of that, the Elantra became “a right-lane queen.” “Uphill travel was miserable.” The car struggled tremendously on the highway, even on flat highways. The only gear that had any umpf was 2nd gear, according to Brown. Yikes. This is a tough review. I guess if you are just driving locally, go for it. Check out the Hyundai Elantra Touring, but if you ever need to get on the highway and travel anywhere, you might want to think of another vehicle to buy instead.