• scytale@piefed.zip
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    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.

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        6 months ago

        IT’S NOT SHORT! Oh you said the bed. Yeah. Yeah. That’s short.

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          6 months ago

          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.

  • Jode@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    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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    6 months ago

    Good. I’m tired of wondering if someone says they own a Soul, whether it’s a Kia Soul or a Honda Soul…

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        6 months ago

        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. 🤷

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      6 months ago

      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”.

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    6 months ago

    wonder if it has anything to do with all these companies refusing proper wages and jacking the cost of everything just because…