My girlfriend had an '01 Sephia and that thing was crap, the dash warped so bad that you could see the yellow foam underneath it from outside the car, the A/C worked for all of six months, and transmission went bad whenever my girlfriend didn't even drive it hard, ever. We traded that disposable car in on a Nissan that will last past 100k miles, the Kia had about 90k at that point and was constantly giving us problems, it was a major disappointment. I need to mention that my girlfriend only drives about 10k miles a year and is definitely easy on cars, at least her '83 Cutlass Supreme never failed to get her where she needed to go and it was 16 years old when she got it, if that tells you anything about craftsmanship when comparing Korean cars to anything else.