2010 Paris Auto Show: Kia POP Concept · Live Photos
30 Sep 2010, 10:52 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Kia POP, the South Korean electric concept that is being presented these days in Paris, has been unveiled today, with full details and specs being disclosed to the media. Aiming towards a car that a...
2011 Kia Soul Receives Five Star ANCAP Rating
27 Sep 2010, 10:59 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Kia Soul has been awarded a five star safety rating by the ANCAP (Australasian New Car Assessment Program). This comes after the vehicle’s standard safety equipment list received new featu...
Kia Pop Concept More Images Surface
27 Sep 2010, 09:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the wackiest models to be displayed at the Paris Auto Show starting next week is definitely Kia's new POP concept, an electric vehicle meant to be a “chic and dramatic styling to t...
Spyshots: 2011 Kia Picanto
27 Sep 2010, 09:24 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Kia is currently working to develop a new generation of the Picanto supermini, which will come to the market next year. We are now offering you a set of spyshots that show the car during a testin...
Kia Presenting Paris Auto Show Display
23 Sep 2010, 07:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Kia is presenting its offensive for the upcoming Paris Auto Show. The most important vehicle in the Kia stand will be the POP concept, which will make its world debut at the event. The eye-catch...
2011 Kia Optima Hybrid Debuting at L.A. Auto Show
22 Sep 2010, 14:27 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Kia released the 2011 Optima in the U.S. earlier today. One of the most important versions of the car will be the hybrid one. According to Auto Guide, the tree-hugging incarnation of the Optima w...
2011 Kia Optima Launched in the US
22 Sep 2010, 06:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Following some good months of waiting, speculation and bits and pieces of information, South Korean manufacturer Kia announced today the release of the Optima on the US market. The sedan will be ava...
Kia Releases 2011 Sportage UK Pricing
17 Sep 2010, 08:26 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Kia’s UK arm has announced the pricing and equipment levels for the new Sportage model, which is scheduled to enter the market on November 1. The Sportage’s engine range includes two ...
Kia Stops Exports to Iran
14 Sep 2010, 14:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After several carmakers either pulled out of Iran or stopped delivering vehicles to the Islamic country, South Korean manufacturer Kia did the same thing in late August, in response to the South Kor...
Kia Releases cee'd and pro cee'd VR-7 Special Editions
14 Sep 2010, 09:24 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The British division of Kia announced today it has introduced new VR-7 Special Editions on two models – cee’d and pro cee’d – offering additional equipment including reversin...
Kia Sportage Receives TUV Environmental Certificate
14 Sep 2010, 06:40 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The new Kia Sportage has received the highest environmental certificate of world-renowned German certification agency TUV Nord, as a recognition of the fact that the vehicle is environmentally frien...
Woman Fails Driver's Exam 959 Times, Gets a Kia Soul
9 Sep 2010, 09:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Remember how a few days ago we brought you a piece of news from South Korea about a woman who tried, times and times again, ever since 2005, to get her driver's license? Remember how she manage...
Spyshots: 2012 Kia Picanto
8 Sep 2010, 09:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the appeal car buyers seem to have developed for South Korean brands keeps growing, local carmakers are trying their best to make the most of the good times ahead. One of the carmakers feeling th...
Customers Prefer Kia Sportage First Edition in Petrol
8 Sep 2010, 07:49 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The recently launched Kia Sportage First Edition version has met an overwhelming demand, with most British customers going for the petrol alternative. The manufacturer has therefore announced that a...
Kia Vice Chairman Resigns Because of Recall
7 Sep 2010, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although minor compared to the recall ordered by Toyota in late 2009-early 2010, Kia's problems with the Soul and Sorento were enough to force Chung Sung-eun, the carmaker's vice chairman,...
Kia Recalls Soul, Sorento
3 Sep 2010, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After in the middle of last month news of the NHTSA having begun an investigation into possible steering issues regarding the new Kia Soul model have surfaced, another problem with the model now com...
No Kia EcoDynamics Sub-Brand for the U.S.
27 Aug 2010, 13:55 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / At last year’s Frankfurt Auto Show, Kia decided to launch an eco sub-brand that would include all its future tree-hugging vehicles under the EcoDynamics badge. Now, the company’s U.S....
2011 Kia Sorento CUV Donated to Habitat for Humanity
23 Aug 2010, 14:24 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The North American division of Kia announced today it has donated a new 2011 Sorento CUV to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles. However, the company is also involved in other community serv...
Kia Procee’d Gets LSD Doors
21 Aug 2010, 07:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An aftermarket parts supplier as big as LSD couldn't have missed the opportunity of designing their world famous Lambo style doors for one of the South Korean modes which have proved to be quit...
2011 Kia Sportage Gets IIHS Top Safety Pick
18 Aug 2010, 15:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced today it has awarded the 2011 Kia Sportage model its Top Safety Pick Award, after the vehicle achieved the highest ratings in frontal, si...