Juke vs Veloster (Hyundai vs Nissan)

When we got my girlfriends mazda3 I called a few various dealers within a couple hours drive and basically told them flat out that I wasn't a local buyer, but wouldn't mind driving a few hours for a better price and an easy in/out transaction and for them to fax me their best price. I then took the faxed price over to my local Mazda dealer and with very little discussion, they beat the price. 4k off of a new 2010 last October. I think I did pretty well for my first new car purchase.

 

Congrats! Her loving it is the most important thing...a happy wife is a happy husband.

Disappointingly the car mags disagree...slow and crappy steering...all show and no go.

As mentioned above the auto scribes agree with you. The turbo has been confirmed for the near future but I don't believe a price or hp have been announced. Hopefully a "base" turbo will still be under $20K.

Of course since the plan is whatever I buy in the short term becomes my oldest son's first car in a few years being slow may not be a bad thing.

 

Veloster, is the more fun drive as a stick, don't know about the auto, the juke is gonna give a better kick in the pants. Real world mileage wise, the gap would be smaller than you think, I'm a nissan fan but if it were my choice I would take the veloster. As far as how long they would hold, the veloster would have less expensive maintenence on the long run(no turbo to rebuild), but reliability wise I would say they are both solid, Nissan has a history of building really robust turbo engines(I would know about that one), and hyundais cars have come a long way recently. Out of the 2 I would pick the veloster, my advice, drive both, then pick the one you like more.

Disregard, Enjoy the Juke, I didn't know about the markups, this is unnerving since I was considering a veloster for my daily driver.

 

If you can wait a few months I'm sure the deals will improve as the newness wears off and the availability increases.