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Originally Posted by strat61caster

All of these yearly 'car of the year' tests (R&T, C&D, MT) focus on cars that came out within this year or had significant changes (like the ND2), CTR was new last year, no changes for this year, thus ineligible for the comparison.

In any case, there are plenty of CTR vs. VN tests out there already, seems like the Veloster is 95% of the car that the CTR is for 80% of the price (~$30k vs ~$35k). I agree if you're that close the money difference is pretty small, $5k over 5 years is $83/month, probably less than you'll spend on gas over that time, just buy the better car. I'm going down the rabbit hole of Veloster forums now, with how hard the Hyundai depreciation is and how high the Type R tax is, buying one used in a few years might be a no brainer when a VN is $20k and a CTR is still $30k...

10 years ago I would have laughed in your face if you told me I was going to buy a Scion within 5 years, a year ago I felt the same about Hyundai, methinks I might have one in 4 years if the N-hype delivers.

Yeah same here for Scion and Hyundai (and Kia). I was actually thinking about getting a Hyundai Palisade or Kia Telluride to replace my wife's GTI as the family car if we have another kid.

BTW I just saw the track video from the R&T comparison. The VN actually sounds pretty good for a stock hot hatch.