Problems
As I drive 2026 Kona I am beginning to find issues with the vehicle. 1. When you hold it in second gear and rev the engine up above 4000 rpm and take your foot off the gas pedal the engine continues to increase in rpm and then hold speed and rpm. When you take your foot go the gas pedal the vehicle should immediately begin to slow down and the the engine should also immediately fall in rpm. 2. The vehicle has a hesitation problem at all speeds and gears, especially when you come to a stop and quickly proceed to accelerate again the vehicle hesitated for 2 seconds, and just sits as you push the gas pedal more and more. 3. The engine is too small for the weight of the vehicle that it cannot slow the vehicle down in low gears. This is a design choice in designing the vehicle, but a bigger engine would have been better. perhaps the 2.0 L. 4. The transmission is geared incorrectly for the drive to have constant control of the gears, and I want control over first gear! 4. Oh, it is shift happy. I wish it would stop shifting gears so quickly.
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