# Hyundai pays me to drive!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyundai-pays-me-to-drive/676083>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 11, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyundai-pays-me-to-drive/676083 "2013-12-11T17:22:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyundai-pays-me-to-drive/676083/1 "2013-12-11T17:22:21Z")

</div>

I just got my first payment: around $65. I get about four cents every thousand miles and will continue to get it for as long as I have the car. Just drop by a dealership, have them check the mileage, and they process the check.

It’s because Hyundai was bad: the gave incorrect mileage figures on their sticker and were ordered to repay anyone who bought a car while the incorrect numbers were being used.

The funny thing is that I didn’t pay any attention to the numbers on the sticker. I was using the number from Consumer Reports, which is always lower than the government figures (but it still was a good number), and have been happy with the mileage (up to 40 mpg on some trips).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyundai-pays-me-to-drive/676083/2 "2013-12-11T18:37:58Z")

</div>

> [@RealityChuck](#):
>
> I just got my first payment: **around $65. I get about four cents every thousand miles** and will continue to get it for as long as I have the car. Just drop by a dealership, have them check the mileage, and they process the check.

Sounds like a good car too if you have gotten more than 1,625,000 miles out of it since they started the program. How long are you planning on keeping it? Drive it a few billion miles more and you will be get a decent chuck of money.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyundai-pays-me-to-drive/676083/3 "2013-12-11T19:43:57Z")

</div>

Yeah, you might want to re-check your math. Or was your check for 65 cents?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyundai-pays-me-to-drive/676083/4 "2013-12-12T02:00:19Z")

</div>

Oops. That’s what I get for using my slide rule.