Hyundai's and kias are known for costing more in labor and parts to repair (while taking a chance it might not work out) than a comparable car in working order.

Truthfully, it's not worth it. It had an engine replacement a few years ago, and lately, I'm racking up repair bills faster than I can pay them off.

Hyundai and Kia have multiple engines through the 2010's that are prone to varying degrees of death from sudden to less-so-but-still-immediate. (there's been lawsuits, extended warranties, etc.)

And that's before you include the whole easy-theft design flaw increasing insurance and vandalism risk from the same time period.

It's a shame since it really kicked off their "solid value car with some sneaky design flaw that'll kill it/burn it/strand you/cost a lot of money later/etc." trend that continues to this day - even in their electric models.

If it's a second car and exclusively driven locally then you can be fine with one especially since you'll have lots of cheap parts at junkyards for a while to come. Especially if the engine's been replaced already under the lawsuit but multiple replacement engines isn't unheard of. And you'll want to change oil every 3-4k miles and watch the oil level like a hawk.

Not saying they haven't made a solid individual vehicle nor are all lawsuit vehicles about to die but it's not really great having that Sword of Damocles dangling to save a buck. (of course it depends on how many bucks are involved)