New member from San Ramon Valley, CA

Hello all,

New member here from the west coast. I am active on a couple of car forums related to my other car but am here to learn about the Sonata hybrid as it appears to be the likely replacement for my '05 Prius.

I have about a 100 mile per day commute so the hybrid seems to make the most sense for me. Love the Prius but really looking for a change with some better handling and comfort.

Never owned a Hyundai but for the last several years I have been watching Hyundai do it better and better and feel comfortable owning one over many other cars now.

Is there one performance site/shop that stands out in the crowd? I want to set the suspension up on the car so it is lower, firmer and tighter than stock. I am not the type to just put in lowering springs and then get bounced to death for the next 100K miles. I was thinking a nice coilover system with heavy sway bars to begin with. I would probably like to lower the car about 1.25. I do not want to turn it into a road scraper. Just enough to clean up the look.

Oh, my other car is a '71 Porsche 914-6. The 914-6's were only made from '69 -'72 for a total number produced of approx. 3333. The majority of those, about 2760 were made in '70, about 306 made in '71 and about 237 made in '72. In '69, 29 cars were made. Mine is an original CA car and I am the third owner. The most notable thing about the 914-6 is that it came from the factory with the 911 engine which makes it a very desirable collector item. Since few were produced when new, they are fairly rare now, some 40 years later.