Comments on: USA: Official Borrego press release

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:13:33 +0000

Excuse me, “How MUCH dumber can you get?????”……….LOL.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:12:36 +0000

We want to take our bikes places and ride them to save on gas………………………………..Pf..BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! That is so stupid. “I am going to drive my bikes to places so that I can ride them!” How dumber can you get?????

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:19:22 +0000

Whoa, Greg, your Mom wants a huge Borrego? If you need or want the people hauling capability, Borrego gives it to you. They are cool SUV’s, easy to call them trucks, really. Beautifully styled, in the fine Kia tradition.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:58:10 +0000

ANY restaurant…….almost, will sell it to you. Northern Michigan has the highest diesel price in North America. We put additives into our gas. Mostly we put in sludge cleaner and fuel system cleaner. We also use the Sportmatic shifting to keep the RPMs under 2,500. Once or twice a week we will get it up to almost 6,000, just to keep it eager. We drive about 25% on trips of 60+ miles. We are strongly considering getting a loaded red Borrego.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:02:47 +0000

Gee whiz, I didn’t realize there was such a price difference in other areas. That’s really good mpg for your Optima though! Here the prices have dropped a bit recently. Unleaded is around $4.10 a gallon and I’ve seen diesel for $4.55. The strengths of the diesel are still there, even if the price difference for fuel is a strong weakness. And I forgot one major strength of diesel- you can do some conversions and run it on used vegetable oil. I’ve seen a few cars that have the conversion, they have it advertised all over their car too, so it must work. The only problem is finding a source of waste veg oil…

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:45:09 +0000

We use premium in our Optima, and we get about 37 MPG overall. Diesel is almost $5.50 here. Gas is $4.31.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:30:20 +0000

Greg, I don’t know how much diesel and gasoline is where you live, but I just did the math on prices where I live. If you drove 400 miles with the diesel getting 20mpg in the city, you’d use 20 gallons. Where I live diesel is $4.699, and would cost $93.98; a gasoline engine getting 15mpg would use 26.7 gallons and at the rate of $4.199 a gallon for regular unleaded, it would cost $112.11 to fill up. And that is just for the city mpg. Diesels excel on the highway, where the mpg would probably be over 30. Also consider that diesels are built to handle a higher pressure and will last longer than a gasoline engine, require less maintenance, and because of their high torque at low RPM, they are the best choice for vehicles that will be carrying heavy loads, towing, etc. Sedona Man, the 3.0L Diesel is rumored to be here for 2010. And don’t forget the 22 hwy MPG that the V8 is rumored to get is using PREMIUM fuel, which costs between $.20 and $.25 more per gallon.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:04:06 +0000

If you are in the USA, you can see the price on kia .com. Also, with diesel prices where they are, if the diesel got 20 MPG city, you would spend more on diesel than you would on Gas. Therefore, diesel makes no sense.

By: frank

frank — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:42:26 +0000

I wonder how much it will cost. When will it hit the showrooms.

By: Sedona Man

Sedona Man — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:59:55 +0000

I don’t care if gas is six dollars a gallon I still have 4 growing kids and this makes sense to me. I wish it had the diesel now!