Hyundai makes some interesting products and Kia has been hitting the ad machine hard. That being said, I subscribe to many enthusiast publications and hear it/read it all (public, writers, editors). When I finally got a chance to drive the CTS-V's, I'm just still very impressed for what we have for the money. Of course, I'm biased toward the SRT's. I get in and out of the cars and the doors just shut like a soft vault door. My fav under 100k is still the GT-R and I sometimes think of getting the last iteration (but, next years will be better and still heavy ). So, for the last 3 years it's been two SRT's in the garage along with the '06 4runner (gonna hit 54k this month!). My '03 Tacoma w/63k is the spring/summer work car and it has to stay outside. Still looks great though, with a thorough wax and detail once a year.