The new Kia Picanto is coming. In 2017, the third generation of the small hatchback, which was largely unnoticed in Slovenia for the first few years, will hit the roads, but with the arrival of the second generation, Slovenians have also come to love it. The new Kia Picanto performs even more confidently and will certainly be a serious competitor to the Twingo, Up!, Aygo, Miia and other city kids. The new Picanto will be presented for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
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Like Nissan, which introduced the Rogue Warrior tracked SUV at the beginning of the year, Kia has stripped down its Sorento and put tracks on it instead of tires. Kia prepared the Sorento Ski Gondola concept vehicle in cooperation with the LUX Motorwerks car service, and showed it at the SEMA 2016 auto show.
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The year 2016 brings a lot of innovations in all car classes. The work, family, business and sports categories will strengthen their ranks, and there is also an ecological Porsche and a courier for the 21st century.
Before the Paris Motor Show, Kia showed the public photos of the fourth generation of the Kia Rio (2016) model, which, design-wise, has European-Asian-American roots, and leans heavily on the Cee'd model, while the "tiger nose" in the memory brings to mind the Kia Sportage SUV.
In Geneva, Kia showed the Kia Niro model, its first hybrid crossover, an economical, sleek and mouse-quiet gasoline-electric SUV. It is built on the same ecological platform as the Hyundai Ioniq and is indeed Kia's dedicated hybrid. It is a global model that will attract a lot of interest also on the Slovenian market, where it will appear in the third quarter of 2016. It will be manufactured in Korea, and the design was contributed by Kia's design center in California and Namjanga.
With the Optima Sportwagon model, Kia fills the last gap in the D vehicle segment (upper middle class). The Koreans will present their dynamic station wagon version of the Optima series at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show. It is designed on the technological platform of the current serial sedan, so there are no large dimensional deviations. The Optima Sportswagon five-door wagon has the same length (4855 mm) and width (1860 mm) as the four-door sedan of the same name.
Kia presented the Kia Telluride concept vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show, a boxy premium SUV that follows the Korean brand's design philosophy and takes it in a bolder direction. It is driven by advanced technology that pays a lot of attention to the health and well-being of the user, and it also boasts car parts printed with a 3D printer.
At CES 2016, Kia unveiled its Drive Wise vehicle sub-brand, which will be in charge of self-driving cars. The Koreans are expected to send the first one to the roads in 2030, even earlier they promise cars capable of partially automatic driving, which should be ready before 2020.
Kia Sorento (2015) / That the Kia brand is an increasingly important player in the Western automotive world is proven by excellent sales figures, which place the group in 7th place worldwide. The names of famous designers such as Peter Schreyer (formerly Audi) indicate the desire that the strategy, in addition to the already known trump cards of this brand, is also an attractive appearance tailored to the global customer. The new Kia Sorento will be available on all continents just as you see it in the picture. It must be admitted that it looks imposing.
Kia presented its Sportspace concept in flesh and blood at the Geneva Motor Show. It is a sport-oriented sedan that is made for long drives and weekend trips. It offers plenty of comfort, fast and stress-free travel, and all of it is packaged in an attractive design that will make drivers and passengers in other cars jealous already in a year and a half, when it rolls out of the factories.
In recent years, smaller SUVs have literally gone "for honey", but despite this, Kia's soul is still considered a true exotic. With the cosmetic renovation, they want to bring one of the first crossovers in the segment closer to a wider target audience, in many respects, as well as set new trends. The latter comes at the expense of the electric drive, which Kia and Soul are the first to offer.