No Kia's really are junk, look at the kia carnivals for example, 50,000 made with faulty head gaskets, they are cheep garbage ready to drive down to the tip. As far as Japanese cars go I think most of them are works of art, take the toyota camry for example. Take it in for a service at 200,000 Km not one drop of oil underneath it, if it was a holden or ford it would need about $3000 in oil leak repairs.