Hyundai is offering an additional $1000 rebate if you trade in a 1995 or older car at purchase time.
This made me curious as to how likely are they to be getting any Hyundai cars in trade.
While we can't know for sure, we can guess. I went to AutoTrader.ca and hit their advanced search. If you search on Hyundai cars alone, you get almost 1350 hits. If you search on Hyundai cars that are 1995 or older... you get none.
Honda, by comparison, gives you more than 3700 hits for all years, and 147 for cars 1995 or older. A low percentage, to be sure, but still infinitely more than Hyundai.
Think about that. You are trading in a car that's done almost fifteen years, in exchange for a car that isn't likely to do the same.
I have to admit that when we bought the Yaris last year, we test drove a Hyundai Accent 4-door. The price was right, and the offer on my Subaru was six times what we got for it from Toyota -- in total, we would have saved around $3000 on the price of the Yaris all told. And yet, on the test drive I already knew that we were not going to buy it before we made the right turn out of the parking lot. It was a case of sit down, put the car in gear... and right away, the decision "no" was floating in my head.
I'm not trying to bash Hyundai here... I was just curious about the apparent longevity of their cars.
