Getz Sport Vs. Yaris T-sport

[vladrulli]

one of my mates just got himself a new Hyundai Getz Sport...

first impressions - I like it...

it has a 1.6L 104hp engine so the power is similar to the TS... the design is ok but could be better - the Yaris has the upper hand in the exterior design but I think I like the interior of the Getz more than that of the Yaris...

I know hyundai isn't one of the popular choices due to older issues with reliability but I think they have been improving dramaticaly in the last couple of years...

has anyone else heard something about the Getz Sport?

[Al J]

Well I've heard of it now! :P

Sorry, not my cup of tea and the Sport just doesn't look 'sporty' enough

the 1.6 models have 104bhp on tap at 5800rpm, have a torque figure of 143Nm/106lbs ft@3200rpm, perform the 0-62mph dash in 9.6 seconds and have a top speed of 109mph.

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Not quite fast enough either!

[Red Yaris 54]

Hyundai offer a 5 year warranty in the U.K. .........so reliability cant be that bad.

The Getz is not a bad looking car...........but not nearly as good as a Yaris :P

[Al J]

Hyundai offer a 5 year warranty in the U.K. .........so reliability cant be that bad.

The Getz is not a bad looking car...........but not nearly as good as a Yaris :P

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Yes... the devil is in the detail! Not bad but too bland looking, I feel

[Blue84]

I don't know anyone with a Getz, but I see them being driven around all the time, so they cant be bad. Someone across the road has an '03 plate one - they're always out and about in it.

[armoredfist2002]

it looks similar to the mark 1 Fiat punto, with the sides and rear, and the front looks like its from a Peugeot

[clarky]

Its a punto!

[seveer unaek]

They ain't too bad, but the interior is horrible.... looks ok in pics, but horrible in reality... very tacky.

Plus, for a 1.6.... it's pretty woeful! Im waiting for the new Swift GTi to be released (August i think) It already looks great styling wise, the 1.5 is a really good engine and the GTi is getting a 120bhp 1.6! That's more like it!

[Demonic Angel]

Now dont laugh.... but I was considering a Getz before I bought Karis - I think they're very nice, but I agree, they are a bit bland and they dont seem to have much of an "Ooooh" factor.

I park next to a Getz in the works carpark (not one of ours, we share the carpark with about 4 other companies) and its just a basic 1.1 in silver - not bad looking, but next to Kaori it just looks a bit boring - even the woman who owns it came to me and said how nice she thought my Yaris was.... but she said it was too expensive for her so she got the Getz.

I think for general "oooooh" ness, its gotta be a Yaris - although dont get me wrong, if the Getz was the last car on earth I would happily drive it!

Hew Hyundais aren't so bad - one of the gals in the office has an older Hyundai Accent Coupe, which isnt very nice at all. Its also a 1.3 engine like mine but when I drove her from the pub one afternoon she commented about the nippiness of the engine compared to hers which she says "takes about 20 mins to actually get going in the morning!"

[knightrider]

mk3 punto wannabe,

not gonna quite cut it for me ill stick with the P1 yaris's!

[vladrulli]

well, I've heard that the 1.6L Hyundai engine is much more responsive to tuning than the TS engine...

[Chuck04]

punto, its the same yellow as well

[s0cks]

Looks alright. Not really sporty enough though.

Hell, my Honda's 1.6L is pushing out 150bhp as standard (and its 15 years old). Then again Hyundia isn't Japanese, in fact what are they? Korean?

Again, not to my taste.

[scionic]

Hyundai is putting in a great deal of effort these days, but the Koreans still cannot touch the Japanese for quality and reliability yet and it's painfully apparent.

Here Hyundai is still something of a joke no matter how hard they try. It is seen as a car for the person who just couldn't quite afford what they actually wanted or wasn't smart enough to buy a used Toyota or Honda instead. They're resale values here are in the toilet still and that says it all. They give a 10 year warranty here too. Pure desperation to convince people their cars aren't sh*t. It's laughable really.

They are getting better all the time, but it would have happened far sooner if they didn't enter the industry by building utter crap for 10 years. Nothing Hyundai builds impresses me except their giant freight ship diesels maybe. hahaha. Maybe in another 10 years a car that can stand beside a Toyota will come out of Korea, but not yet...

[Baby Yari]

Hyundai is putting in a great deal of effort these days, but the Koreans still cannot touch the Japanese for quality and reliability yet and it's painfully apparent.

Here Hyundai is still something of a joke no matter how hard they try. It is seen as a car for the person who just couldn't quite afford what they actually wanted or wasn't smart enough to buy a used Toyota or Honda instead. They're resale values here are in the toilet still and that says it all. They give a 10 year warranty here too. Pure desperation to convince people their cars aren't sh*t. It's laughable really.

They are getting better all the time, but it would have happened far sooner if they didn't enter the industry by building utter crap for 10 years. Nothing Hyundai builds impresses me except their giant freight ship diesels maybe. hahaha. Maybe in another 10 years a car that can stand beside a Toyota will come out of Korea, but not yet...

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Well surely the Coupe does just enough to tickle your tastebuds!?

This is the sort of car they need to be producing to catch up with the likes of Toyota, Honda, etc

[Al J]

Well surely the Coupe does just enough to tickle your tastebuds!?

This is the sort of car they need to be producing to catch up with the likes of Toyota, Honda, etc

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My girlfriend and I were discussing the coupe tonight. She had one until she wrote it off.

Nice car and totally different league to the other Hyundais.

[scionic]

Well surely the Coupe does just enough to tickle your tastebuds!?

This is the sort of car they need to be producing to catch up with the likes of Toyota, Honda, etc

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By coupe, I assume you mean what they call the Tiburon here?

This?

I'm still not that impressed. It's OK, but every review I've read says the engine is coubik, like all other Hyundai's and the shifter is balky. To me the styling just looks like it's trying to hard to incorportate elements stolen from 4 or 5 other cars and it doesn't flow.

It could be that I have an unfair bias against Korean cars. I guess I don't see the point in saving a few dollars (or quid) and getting a clearly inferior pretender. I'd rather have a less expensive Toyota/Honda or just buy used then be driving a compromise. You get what you pay for IMO.

[earpl]

arent coupe's great cars. the big 2.7 v6 is a woppinng 0.8 seconds quicker to get to 62 than a t sport :P and only does 134 mph what a sack of spanners :P as for the 1.6 given it weighs about 250 kg more than a yaris, gets to 62 in a lightning 11.6 seconds.

im off to buy one, oh and sionic you can ignore the 1.6 figures as they only sell the 2.7 and 7.2 in the usa :P

[scionic]

A 1.6 in THAT car would just be sad and depressing. It's bad enough it's a Korean !Removed! masqerading as a sports coupe as it is.

FWIW, we get a 2.0 liter with 134 bhp and the 2.7 liter V6 with 172 bhp here.

Very few cars have engines under 2.0 liters here. It's a rarity...

[Demonic Angel]

I used to own Korean turd thanks - lovely car it was too! I'm sure Seveer will agree with me!

[A.T.G]

Someone asked earlier...

Hyundai are North Korean company that now build a lot of their cars in Europe, and if i remember is now owned by a relative of the Russian nutter who owns TVR...

Just so you know...

(Foundation of usually useless knowledge)

[seveer unaek]

I used to own Korean !Removed! thanks - lovely car it was too! I'm sure Seveer will agree with me! 

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Yes i !Removed! well will! My Matiz was a beast! Granted i was a bit squashed in, but for a tiny car like that to hold me (6ft 3" & wide) and 4 other friends (3 6ft-ers and a short ****) and still carry it's **** around niftily enough and have nothing go wrong in 5 years and to have air-con, abs, airbags, CD player, PAS, electric windows, alloys, spoiler, and to have a tank of petrol last for aaaaaaaggeeesss, and to be dirt cheap on insurance and...... to be FUN.... is quite a masterstroke for an 800cc £7k piece of Korean !Removed!.

[scionic]

Yeah, I didn't mean to knock them so much. They're a great deal better than they were 5-10 years ago. Hyundai has amazing strides in a short amount of time and I am sure they have Toyota's attention now and not just as a joke in the corporate washroom anymore.

I have a friend that has an Accent actually, and I was surprised by how not-crappy it was. It's no Civic or Yaris nut a much closer approximation than I anticipated.

[CAMSHAFT]

I drove the 1.6 Getz for a while we had one on as a demo, nice car I liked it a lot, independent rear suspension, more leg room for people in the back, 60/40 split and foldable rear seats and over here anyway the Hyundai has a far better spec than the equivalent yaris and a lot cheaper. but that the thing you get what you pay for and for a little more the yaris is a nicer car, the Getz is let down by it engines, the 1.1 looks to be a more powerful than the 1.0 yaris. its not bad, but compared to the yaris engine its noisy and does not have the get up and go of the 1.0 yaris. The 1.6 Getz is really a small car with a big engine that may sound silly, I had our demo for a week the Getz felt heavy a the front all the time and you had to rev the Nuts off it to get it going but I honestly did like it until I got a spin in a yaris TS again, the yaris is a pocket rocket, fast and nimble, the Getz is quick but by no means a match for a TS

[scionic]

. The 1.6 Getz is really a small car with a big engine that may sound silly, I had our demo for a week the Getz felt heavy a the front all the time and you had to rev the Nuts off it to get it going but I honestly did like it until I got a spin in a yaris TS again, the yaris is a pocket rocket, fast and nimble, the Getz is quick but by no means a match for a TS

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Probably because the Hyundai 1.6 has an iron block, versus the aluminum (OK, aluminium!) block of the Yaris.

The Yaris TS motor only weighs about 160 lbs or less, the Hyundai motor is bound to be significantly more.

The independent rear suspension is the one thing that gets me though. I really wish Toyota would :censor: ing do that for the Yaris and variants.