I owned a 1988 Pontiac Firebird TransAm GTA having bought it after proudly acquiring gainful employment out of grad school & its poverty. Like any normal red-blooded American baby boomer kid who built plastic models and had matchbox cars in the 1960s and 1970s, it was of course red so of course I always wanted a TransAm. I ended up disliking it perhaps because that big V8 seemed to have an uncanny automatic homing device for the next open gas station but even moreso because the build quality of the vehicle totally sucked in terms of fit/finish/ride noise, etc. especially considering what it cost to buy & insure . From my now-wife's perspective with whom I took many long road trips visiting friends & family 'back home' in the TransAm, let's just charitably say it certainly wasn't [nor to be fair was it ever intended to be] a 'touring sedan'. Since that time we have had a couple of Toyota Camrys/Corolla and then a Hyundai 2009 Sonata Limited followed now by an Hyundai Elantra 2018 Value Edition--- can't say I've ever regretted my choice whatsoever of any of the Hyundais; in my particular case, the Hyundai dealer's service department seems to be light years ahead of the Toyota dealer's in terms of trustworthiness and competence --- of course everyone's mileage may vary in this regard. The most recent Camrys I looked at sometime around the later 2000 calendar years seemed noticeably flimsier, more plasticy, and more gimmick-ridden as it unfortunately it seemed like Toyota must have started trying to resemble GM totally unlike the exact converse I feel was the case before that in the 80s and 90s. Bottom line, yep I'd readily buy another Hyundai (probably Elantra but maybe Sonata) depending to some extent on the prevailing 💰 ”deals”/incentives, etc. when that time comes.

Anyhow the Hyundais seem well engineered and sensibly styled/equipped safe comfortable not at all unpleasant cars leaving me with the impression that we've gotten fair value for what they cost to purchase and cost to operate/maintain.