I owned a Soul. I loved it, small car but huge and spacious inside. Fun to drive and very economical with gas. But then they didn’t install immobilizers on them as standard, so the KiaBoyz trend happened. Insurance kept going up, and that’s if you weren’t declined outright. So I traded it in after 4 years of ownership.

This is sad. It's the closest thing the US had to a kei car since the Scion xB. The last hope for something even remotely similar will be the Slate Truck with a bunch of mods, and even then it won't have four side doors.

You have to use the wayback web site, but the hampsters still dance:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991128125537/http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/4157/hampdance.html

I had one of these as a rental once and I really didn't like it. The thing was noisy, the transmission was super jumpy, and it had no useful space inside. I was expecting some like my mom's Honda element at the time and was sorely disappointed. Granted this was 7-8 years ago and I never drove the current Gen version.

What the fuck does this have to with the Hamster Dance?

I went to test drive one once and couldn’t get my legs under the steering wheel.

Good. I'm tired of wondering if someone says they own a Soul, whether it's a Kia Soul or a Honda Soul...

wonder if it has anything to do with all these companies refusing proper wages and jacking the cost of everything just because...