Hyundai i10 vs Kia Picanto

**IceT** · July 11th, 2011 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by niky

Why would you cannibalize your own Accent sales by offering an ultra-expensive i10 at the same price? Better to have a top-of-the-line 1.1. HARI is smart, they've dealt with this kind of issue before.

I see your point. I guess my point of view is as a consumer, not the manufacturer. Too bad of us though, more options would have been better.

Originally Posted by niky

It should be exactly the same. It should mean great fuel economy for a 1.25, but whether it actually means better economy than the 1.1 will depend on where you're driving it.

Thanks. I understand what you mean.

**niky** · July 12th, 2011 03:10 PM

Yeah... shame for us consumers... I especially like the extra power of the 1.2 liter engines in those small cars, and the i10 1.2 is fantastic to drive, thanks to its tight suspension.

**GTi** · July 13th, 2011 01:27 AM

If you sorely need the additional power of the i10's 1.25L engine, then you're left with that option. But otherwise, I'd suggest the new Picanto which IMHO is much, much better looking as compared to the i10 which was designed before the fluidic sculpture design language and was seemingly forced to go with the company's current corporate face.

**IceT** · July 13th, 2011 01:53 AM

The thing with picanto is that why is it more expensive than i10? Picanto only has 1.0L, and as far as I can tell, there no additional feature compared to i10. I'm not against any company making money, but what's up with that? (considering Kia and Hyundai are sister company already)

**GTi** · July 13th, 2011 02:06 AM

They may be sister companies but they're sold by different distributors here. And while one is very good with their pricing schemes and happen to be among the best distributors of that company worldwide, the other one happens to be a very selfish, good for nothing distributor that cares about nothing more than how to make more money and prices their feature-stripped products similar to or maybe even more expensive than their grey market (and much better equipped) counterparts...