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Kia Motors America announces February 2009 new car salesThere are two reasons why I’m glad to provide the latest Kia sales numbers for the month of February 2009. First, Kia vehicles were selling like there were no global financial crisis and slowing demand for cars, and second Kia was, together with Subaru, the sole automaker [...] Lees meer...

A stunning Kia concept car, named simply the No3, has been unveiled at Geneva Motor Show today. Following Kia’s latest design language, the No3 concept car combines attractive exterior design full of dynamic surfaces and attractive lines that Kia has been using lately to build it’s new brand identity.The concept vehicle has been designed under [...] Lees meer...

By Seung Hwan LeeKia BUZZ EditorHello everyone.* Today I would like to share with you some of our new videos of Kia’s all new concept car unveiled today at the Geneva Motor Show – the Kia N

Video preview: Kia No3 concept* By now we have seen plenty of exciting pictures previewing the all-new No3 concept car from Kia Motors. What we haven’t seen so far were some video previews, that ussually come included in the official press packs. While browsing for some fresh new Geneva Auto Show, we came across [...] Lees meer...

Before you take a closer look at Kia No3 concept car, which is debuting in Geneva later today, you can check out the heavily disguised production-ready model. The prototype of the upcoming Kia mini-MPV, codenamed YN, has been spotted by car paparazzi while undergoing some cold-weather testing in Sweden.Latest set of spy shots has been [...] Lees meer...

The all-new Kia No3 concept Kia has released new images and additional information on it’s latest No3 mini-MPV concept that has been set to debut in Geneva tomorrow. The official press pack includes three new images previewing the No3 concept from behind, front and on the inside.Official press release:The all-new Kia No 3 Concept Car, [...] Lees meer...

Kia Soul finally makes it’s official debut in Australia! Kia Motors Australia is celebrating it’s second new car launch in less than a month. After it has successfully launched the brand-new Cerato (known also as Forte in global markets) a few weeks ago, the company has finally unveiled the long-awaited Soul crossover to the Australian [...] Lees meer...

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This is a brief review of the 2010 Kia Soul, written by our good friend known as JoshLofty here at our boards. On his way home, he visited one of the Kia dealers in his neighbourhood to check out the all-new Soul crossover. He got to see it up-close and even took some nice images [...] Lees meer...

Here we have yet another interesting comparison of the two latest econobox cars, the 2010 Kia Soul and Nissan Cube. Both of them were evaluated during Chicago Auto Show, by Patrick Olsen from Kickingtires.com who pointed out some of the strengths and weaknesses of both Gen-Y vehicles.After we have seen the Soul beating Scion xB [...] Lees meer...

Comparison test: Kia Soul Sport, Nissan Cube S, Scion xBThe fellows at Popular Mechanics have put the all-new Kia Soul urban crossover head to head with the latest Nissan Cube S and the good old Scion Xb. This is believed to be the first comparisson test of these three fuel-sipping box-cars, all of them targeting [...] Lees meer...

Kia has today released two additional teaser shots previewing it’s forthcoming 2010 Sorento crossover. Codenamed LM, the next generation Sorento will be officially unveiled at the Seoul Motor Show in April and is expected to go on sale shortly afterwards (In South Korea). ** Lees meer...

Kia cee’d ISG, cee’d hybrid, No3 conceptIn addition to the striking No3 concept, Kia will also be displaying a slew of it’s production and near production models at the booth in Geneva. Kia plans to bring a slew of 18 vehicles to the 79th Salon International de l

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Kia No 3 Concept CarIn anticipation of next month’s Geneva Auto Show, Kia released three more images of the all-new YN concept. Dubbed the Kia No3 concept, this all-new show car from Kia Motors redefines the small MPV genre by creating an impressive looking car that is also fun-to-drive.Penned by Kia’s European design team, under [...] Lees meer...

Kia Motors reported a sales decline in the first month of 2009. It’s global sales of passenger cars, recreation vehicles and light trucks in January 92,311 units, representing a 10% fall compared to January 2008. By model, Kia’s best selling vehicle in global markets in January was the “soon to be replaced” C-segment Spectra with 15,898 [...] Lees meer...

Vanilla Shake Kia Soul With the official Kia Soul sales commencing in the beginning of March, Kia dealers have been building up their inventories over the past few weeks and making sure they have enough Souls once crowds of people start bouncing in. On Saturday, I visited one of the shopping malls in Ljubljana (capital of [...] Lees meer...

By KMS Public Relations Team Hello from the Public Relations team at Kia Motors Slovakia! We are so pleased that we could welcome the young Korean chefs to our country and would like to share our observations and impressions of the program with all of you! Every year, a volunteer project entitled Happy Move Global Youth Program [...] Lees meer...

By Kia Motors America PR TeamOn Wednesday, February 11, Kia Motors America (KMA) hosted more than 400 attendees at its Chicago Blues-inspired press conference during the 2009 Chicago Auto Show (CAS).* Top-tier journalists from outlets including the Chicago Sun-Times, MSN Autos, Edmunds.com, Ward

Kia has released the first official image of it’s next generation Sorento crossover today. The all-new crossover from Kia Motors is scheduled to debut at the forthcoming Seoul Auto Show. What we learned so far about the 2010 Kia Sorento is that the vehicle will undergo some major, not only design, but also technical changes. Gone [...] Lees meer...

The image of a “Super cee’d” race-car, posted here at our Kia Blog on Friday, has spawn an interesting debate and generated quite some buzz among all of us, Kia fans. We had no idea where to put the vehicle and it kept us guessing of it’s main purpose until tody.Some of you have suggested [...] Lees meer...

Do you guys have any idea of what this could be? Is Kia preping to go racing and join some track-racing series such as BTTC ( British Touring Car Championship )? Don’t have any idea and have never heard of anything like that, but that wouldn’t hurt Kia’s sporty image, right!? Lees meer...

With it’s latest four-door compact sedan, joining the US line-up in the summer this year, Kia wants to play it loud. Fresh and modern styling, roomy interior, advanced powertrain technology and a ton of cool new features are some of the qualities that Kia Forte will use to fight against it’s main Japanese and US [...] Lees meer...

By Soon Nam Lee Director, Overseas Marketing Group, Kia Motors Corporation Forecasts point to a sharp drop in automobile demand this year with the continuing worldwide economic slump. Meanwhile, thanks to swift advances in IT, the rapid emergence of new media based on two-way communication has been changing the face of the media environment which had hitherto [...] Lees meer...