I owned a Soul. I loved it, small car but huge and spacious inside. Fun to drive and very economical with gas. But then they didn’t install immobilizers on them as standard, so the KiaBoyz trend happened. Insurance kept going up, and that’s if you weren’t declined outright. So I traded it in after 4 years of ownership.
This is sad. It's the closest thing the US had to a kei car since the Scion xB. The last hope for something even remotely similar will be the Slate Truck with a bunch of mods, and even then it won't have four side doors.
No, I would never dare to imply anything else is short. I have already been duly impressed by the magnificent set of testicles hanging from your trailer hitch.
I had one of these as a rental once and I really didn't like it. The thing was noisy, the transmission was super jumpy, and it had no useful space inside. I was expecting some like my mom's Honda element at the time and was sorely disappointed. Granted this was 7-8 years ago and I never drove the current Gen version.
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scytale@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 328d
I owned a Soul. I loved it, small car but huge and spacious inside. Fun to drive and very economical with gas. But then they didn’t install immobilizers on them as standard, so the KiaBoyz trend happened. Insurance kept going up, and that’s if you weren’t declined outright. So I traded it in after 4 years of ownership.
EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 328d
You have to use the wayback web site, but the hampsters still dance:
https://web.archive.org/web/19991128125537/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/4157/hampdance.html
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 328d
This is sad. It's the closest thing the US had to a kei car since the Scion xB. The last hope for something even remotely similar will be the Slate Truck with a bunch of mods, and even then it won't have four side doors.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 328d
What the fuck does this have to with the Hamster Dance?
loie@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 328d
They did some commercials with people in hamster costumes driving the car.
MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al · -1 pts · 328d
Kia funded the original hamster dance website. also, meat spins.
Dirac@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 328d
The first half is plausible, but the second half is sus.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 328d
Second half was probably Jeep, let’s be honest.
Dirac@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 326d
This checks out somehow 😂
etherphon@midwest.social · 5 pts · 328d
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 328d
Don't forget to also give it a lift kit and a pointlessly short pickup bed.
meco03211@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 328d
IT'S NOT SHORT! Oh you said the bed. Yeah. Yeah. That's short.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 328d
No, I would never dare to imply anything else is short. I have already been duly impressed by the magnificent set of testicles hanging from your trailer hitch.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 328d
This person sells cars. ☝️
Jode@midwest.social · 4 pts · 328d
I had one of these as a rental once and I really didn't like it. The thing was noisy, the transmission was super jumpy, and it had no useful space inside. I was expecting some like my mom's Honda element at the time and was sorely disappointed. Granted this was 7-8 years ago and I never drove the current Gen version.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
Good. I'm tired of wondering if someone says they own a Soul, whether it's a Kia Soul or a Honda Soul...
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 328d
You mean the Honda Del Sol? Which may or may not be a CR-X variant, Civic variant, or its own thing depending on year and region.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_CR-X_del_Sol
I've never heard it referred to just as a Soul.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
I can't confirm or deny, you might be right. Dude scrapped that car ages ago. I think it was an early 90's 2 door Honda, stick shift. 🤷
CPMSP@midwest.social · 2 pts · 328d
I miss my Del Sol!
That may have been the car that was most fun to drive I've ever owned.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 328d
I went to test drive one once and couldn’t get my legs under the steering wheel.
mmcintyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d
Sitting in my 6'3" husband's Soul out and about with him right now, read him your comment.. "Oh yeah it's a pain in the ass".
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 328d
wonder if it has anything to do with all these companies refusing proper wages and jacking the cost of everything just because...