 It was a nice car, maybe a bit small for my needs even with the rear seat folding down.  But my decision on not to buy it came from on-line reviews of current owners stating that "The Hyundai  Elantra GT is very difficult to drive in snow. Hard to get traction even with snow tires."  So it indicated to me that the car is too light for snow conditions even though it is front wheel drive with the engine weight located over the front drive wheels/tires.  One person had to change not only all 4 tires to snow tires, but indicated he had to replace the rear struts with heavy duty name branded struts in order to get it to drive in the snow.  I understand this condition as my daughter had a 2008 Mazda 3 that even with snow tire was very difficult and challenging to drive in the snow even with expensive snow tires (all 4 tires).