I drive a Kia Optima Turbo and had a solid thread on here about it a year ago as I went through my search. I am leasing. It's a great car, made even greater given the value. If price was no issue, I would choose a BMW 335. After 1 year of the Kia, I would definitely still make the same choice. Will I buy out my lease when it is up? Not sure. I'm leaning towards no (well, I may buy it out because I don't drive a ton and I think this Kia will hold its value quite well so I can actually make a bit of money by buying it out from the dealership at their set price and selling to someone else). Not because it's a bad car of course. Again, it's great. Great value. From value and even power perspective, if effectively beats out all of its competitors. But even though I drive little, and even though I shouldn't increase my price range, I foresee myself doing so in my next vehicle. As much power and as fast as the Optima turbo is, it still drives too much like a Lexus and not enough like a BMW. It's not a BMW... so that's fine. I just think after 3 years with the Optima, I'll switch to an Audi/VW/BMW. I know it's a relative bad choice from a value, potential maintenance perspective. But they drive so much tighter. While I'd definitely make the same choice, I was considering a VW Passat. And the fully supped up Passat V6 drove amazing. But it was meaningfully more expensive (4k+ when factoring in that Kia "bought" my business by giving me $2k more than anyone else on my trade in), and I didn't trust the VW reliability. My 2 cents. Make fun of Kia all you want, it's a above average brand becoming a well above average brand. And, frankly, as pictures in this thread prove, it looks better than most of its competitors, too.
I'm sorry but with Jobs dead Apple has nothing to do except sue everyone in sight. Samsung's the future, and has been kicking Apple's ass since last year. Oh yeah....Oppa Gangnam Style! P.S. Why the hell is this thread worthy? Hasn't it occurred to the OP Griffin might have two cars? Just because the NBA endorses Gatorade doesn't mean all the athletes can't drink water, coke and pepsi.
The Kia Optima is actually better looking than Beady Eyes Griffin (I don't own one, for what it's worth... I have a Ford Focus hatchback). Anyhow, as I said, Kia most likely doesn't care. I don't think anyone expects Griffin to drive around in an Optima when taking a lady out. Also, a $163K Mercedes-Benz is hardly a competing product to the $23K or so Kia Optima or any of the other vehicles that Kia sells in the US. I suspect that Kia would care if Blake Griffin was driving around in a Toyota Camry or Honda Accord and this is probably part of his contract. Pretty sure the $163K Mercedes-Benz is not covered by such a clause. I mean, it's like with shoe deals... Nike would care if one of their endorsers like Jordan walks around in a Reebok track suit, but they wouldn't give a damn if he shows up in public wearing an Armani jacket or a Burberry coat.
Galaxy Note 2. lol Which is a sick phone by the way. Will probably pick one up (Verizon) in the very near future.
Yup, I vouch for the Note 2. Everyone complaining that the screen/phone is too big are most likely Apple fanboys that are circle jerking themselves to the "perfect hand-crafted" size of the iPhone.
JamaicaMon really trolling you guys good. Happy Friday b****es Kia probably gives their entire consumer line to Blake for free.
I'd guess he only has a decked out Optima. No reason to crowd his garage. I'm sure they'd give him the whole line if he asked.
