Hyundai Starex or Kia Carnival

**ressie** · November 28th, 2007 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by kokey

Urvan for me.....

ako din urvan pero dapat lemon! hehehe!

**DonT** · November 28th, 2007 11:18 PM

When I was in Korea, I used to enjoy riding the carnival taxis there. Very Comfortable..parang nasa business class.

Yung mga starex dun is mostly for cargo and people carrier.

Kaya its the Carnival for me.

**pup2** · November 30th, 2007 07:59 AM

Ako hindi pa din nakakabili. Naghihintay pa ako kasi nung una, isip ko Carnival na. Tapos may nag-post ng horror story about parts availability. Then akala ko kumpleto airbag ng Carnival so sana kukuha na ako. Then I found out sa website lang pala yun!Haaay buhay. Baka paabutin ko na ng January ang purchase ko.

**kokey** · November 30th, 2007 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by ressie

ako din urvan pero dapat lemon! hehehe!

sir, meron po talaga lemon yellow na urvan.

**cma** · December 3rd, 2007 08:31 PM

I don't know if the Hyundai Starex is sold at all in the U.S. market, but the Carnival is sold there as the Sedona and is very highly rated for safety and other features. It's also very true that the Carnival has been garnering awards left & right worldwide. So I think KIA really sells "WORLD CARS", not just vehicles designed or developed for a certain market only, and they're widely accepted.

KIA Carnival, no contest. It's just that it sort of disappeared for awhile in our market while in transition with no news or development. The Starex basically had no competition for awhile, hence the massive popularity.

**pup2** · December 4th, 2007 01:07 AM

Originally Posted by cma

I don't know if the Hyundai Starex is sold at all in the U.S. market, but the Carnival is sold there as the Sedona and is very highly rated for safety and other features. It's also very true that the Carnival has been garnering awards left & right worldwide. So I think KIA really sells "WORLD CARS", not just vehicles designed or developed for a certain market only, and they're widely accepted.

KIA Carnival, no contest. It's just that it sort of disappeared for awhile in our market while in transition with no news or development. The Starex basically had no competition for awhile, hence the massive popularity.

Unfortunately, the Carnival being sold here, while having a higher price has only 1 of its airbags left -- which will have a significant bearing on its crash worthiness.

**cma** · December 4th, 2007 09:58 AM

Fyi guys! Heads up!

The KIA Carnival won the EXECUTIVE VAN & MPV OF THE YEAR award at the recently concluded COTY (Car of the Year) Awards '07, based on evaluations and tests made by the majority of Philippine Motoring Journalists. Nice!

Other KIA winners were: KIA Picanto - Best Sub-Compact car of the year, KIA Carens - Compact Van/MPV of the year, KIA Rio - Executive Sub-Compact car of the year!

It was in the newspapers sometime last week of November.