The problem is that when the
The problem is that when the car was introduced it was being compared to the old Honda CRX. The CRX was a 2 door, 2 seat car that weighed absolutely nothing and took off like a rocket. When people saw the Veloster, they expected it to be the same as it has a similar design. That was not the goal of this car, as it weighs substantially more than the CRX. The Veloster has a 0-60 time of roughly 8.6 seconds which is a very normal time, it's just not as fast as people were expecting it to be, so they deemed it slow.