[John_W]

Originally Posted by Wiotte

If you had kept traveling further SE on SR27 the Orlando dealers have an even larger inventory. After being “played” by the local dealers (I have enormous patience) we figured we city slickers should shop in the “big city”. Sure enough, tough talk in the big city yields the best price.


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I have no problem going further, in fact in 2012 I bought a new 2013 Hyundai Veloster Turbo when they just came out and went to Winter Haven to Red Hoagland Hyundai, they are also a top notch dealer. Gave me KBB price and took my trade at KBB price.

With the 33 cars in stock Hyundai of Central Florida in Clermont had, which isn't exactly local, the only thing they didn't have was two colors, lime green and silver. Black, white, red, blue, gray were in stock, and I was either getting the white or blue, you can see in my avatar I got the white. Also the silver and lime only come in the Ultimate model, which I explain below.

I disregarded dealerrater.com and google.com reviews because they had almost every Hyundai dealer as 4 or 5 stars. I used yelp.com and checked out every Hyundai dealer from Daytona, to St. Pete to Gainesville, and Clermont was far and away rated much higher. After my purchase I also gave them 5 stars as well.

There are four models of the Kona but only two interested me, the Limited (which I bought) and the Ultimate. The limited had leather interior, moon roof, auto, a/c, am/fm/xm, aluminum wheels with 18" tires and 175 HP Turbo. For $2800 more the Ultimate had navigation, an 8" screen instead of 7", heads up speed on a flip-up plastic shield, not on the windshield, pedestrian warning and lane keeping assist. I didn't feel it was worth almost $3,000 more, plus the Limited that I have allows you to plug in your smart phone and display your navigation off of the internet, so you can actually map out your route in your home ahead of time. My out-the-door price of $24,400 (which included tax, tags, title and floor mats) was better than KBB Great Price and $3300 cheaper than Jenkins best price.