Had to go out West for a week and they gave me a choice of rentals, Hyundai or Buick something. He said Hyundai would be better on gas which I knew would be false but I wanted to experience the Korean stuff. The trunk was not bad at all. This was Vegas, but I had to go way out in the desert, so I was going to use it and use a lot of gas. It had 70 miles on it so it had probably been used only once before I got there. The seats wouldn't go back as far as I expected but I'm over 7 foot and my legs have been broken a bunch of times so I don't fault them. Not bad for room, especially for one person. Driving it is average. The first thing I noticed was after going from reverse to drive, often the backup camera stays on. That is very distracting at night in the pitch dark desert, the display is quite big and it's on the top of the dash, like someone just bolted it there. Also, it wasn't long before I noticed a sputtering and missing when sitting at a stop. No check engine light though. I think it was fuel delivery, as the fuel level go lower it got a lot worse and it was stalling below half a tank. Also, the blower fan: it would stop blowing, or it would change speeds randomly, it would even run when I shut the car off and took the keys out. Cycling the key a dozen times or more was needed. It did make it back to the airport, I kept the fuel level fairly high, as much as I could and it drove OK when things were not going haywire.
Is this pretty normal?
Is this pretty normal?