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And you thought you were cool because your BMW came with three years of free scheduled maintenance. It turns out that the Koreans can play that game, too. The 2014 Kia Cadenza is receiving free scheduled maintenance, covering six appointments over the first three years or 37,500 miles. The premium full-size ...    Read more

Without a Kia Sedona for the 2013 model year, the Korean automaker was left to its devices of selling however many of its aging, but award-winning, minivans as long as it could. We knew that the Sedona was returning, as it's been confirmed multiple times. The last time we spoke ...    Read more

Kia has re-entered the U.S. full-size car market, with the official news today for pricing information on the 2014 Kia Cadenza full-size sedan. Starting at $35,900, including $800 for destination and handling, a considerable sum for a Kia. There's also a considerable number of features included in that price--and the ...    Read more

It's not often when you see automakers taking risks with mainstream products like the 2013 Kia Sportage SX. It looks like nothing else on the road. Weighing a relatively svelte 3,300 pounds and sending 260 turbocharged horsepower to the wheels, it goes a good bit faster than most of its ...    Read more

In the grand dance between dealer and customer, incentives often play the role of matchmaker. Automakers use these spiffs as an extra enticement to get buyers into cars, and those buyers will often wait until incentives appear on their selected ride before finally sitting down to negotiate a price. Some ...    Read more

It's easy to snooze through new car sales each month with a few inevitabilities, right? The Ford F-Series will always be the best-selling pickup. The Toyota Camry will always be the best-selling midsizer, unless the Accord trades spots with it like it does so often. Except that neither the Accord nor ...    Read more

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March is when sales begin their ascent through about September. Automakers are ramping up deliveries of all-new models as auto show season winds down and future cars become today's. It's generally a pretty good bellwether for the rest of the year, which should resonate well with most automakers. Reporting their ...    Read more

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If you're going to have a recall, sometimes its best to swing for the fences, we guess. Collectively, Hyundai and Kia are recalling 1.7 million vehicles for faulty brake switches. According to the recall, the vehicles affected may not illuminate their brake lights or deactivate cruise control when the brake ...    Read more

We came, we saw, and we delivered you a mighty extensive look at the 2013 New York Auto Show. And we'll be providing a few more stories from the show floor when our staff comes back fully recovered next week. If you stuck with us from Monday through Friday, chances are ...    Read more

The term "four-door coupe" made nearly as much sense at its inception as champagne made from grapes harvested in the Midwest (champagne only comes from France), so Kia's rather liberal definition with the Kia Cub shouldn't detract too much from its overall purpose. Anyhow, the four-door coupe hatchback Kia Cub is ...    Read more

We're in the Big Apple, covering the 2013 New York International Auto Show from the Jacob Javits Center and the outlying venues. This year, General Motors looks to continue its momentum with five new models--the redesigned 2014 Cadillac CTS, refreshed Buick Regal and LaCrosse, the sendoff version of the current-generation ...    Read more

It doesn't seem like the current-generation Kia Optima was introduced that long ago. But it's been on the market since 2011. Now that it's gotten NBA superstar approval, sales have taken off to the point where the sedan is Kia's best seller, 150,000 units in the U.S. alone last year. ...    Read more

This coming week the 2014 Kia Forte Koup will make its debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show. With refreshed features and new racing genes, Kia has widened its audience. There's an array of great technological features that appeals to the tech-savvy generation as well as safety features that ...    Read more

We've seen the commercials with the dancing hamsters, but it may be time for the new 2014 Kia Soul to dance across the international stage, possibly making its debut at the 2013 New York Auto Show. Kia's keeping most of its cards close to the chest, but the new Soul ...    Read more

At last month's Geneva Motor Show, Kia introduced its Provo concept car that looks to challenge Mini with hybrid power and an aggressive look and feel. This week, we have it on pretty good authority that Kia will be bringing the redesigned 2014 Forte Koupe, redesigned 2014 Soul hatchback, and ...    Read more

About the only things the 2014 Kia Forte sedan and 2013 Audi RS 5 cabriolet have in common are the fact that they both have four wheels, and Kia's lead designer Peter Schreyer worked for both companies. Oh yeah, and both of them got prices attached to their sheetmetal today, ...    Read more

Kia is weighing the decision to launch either a new rear-wheel-drive sports model or compact SUV ans it tries to become a major player in the European new car industry. In a recent interview, CEO Michael Cole said, "Everyone now knows our five-year plan to replace our volume models. But we're ...    Read more

Kia announced earlier this week that the updated 2013 Optima Hybrid now has a more performance-driven and fuel-efficient powertrain, additional cargo space, and new premium features. The updated Optima features a stronger Hybrid Starter Generator, 47 horsepower electric traction motor, and a more powerful lithium polymer battery. The combined horsepower is ...    Read more

It's no secret that the Geneva Motor Show is known for the wacky, expensive, and sometimes wacky-expensive vehicles that debut there. The 2013 Geneva Motor Show was no different. There aren't many auto shows anywhere in the world that have this many hypercars debuting with mainstream vehicle unveils taking a ...    Read more

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About a month ago, Kia previewed its Geneva-bound compact concept car. We thought it was intended to be a Nissan Juke competitor. We were wrong. But even better, it's an all-wheel-drive hybrid sports coupe, which Kia says shows off the evolved look of the brand and could foreshadow an upcoming model ...    Read more

When it rains, it has a tendency to pour, so Korean automaker Hyundai is discovering. For Hyundai, controversy still surrounds the automaker in the wake of its November fuel-economy boondoggle that sent its factory-rated EPA numbers tumbling ...    Read more

Ever since Blake Griffin dunked over a Kia Optima, he's been tied to the brand's marketing. Earlier this week, Kia unveiled two new ads starring the Los Angeles Clippers power forward, and the 2013 Kia Optima. Both ads start out the same way, with Griffin driving along and using a ...    Read more

We wrapped up our coverage of the 2013 Chicago Auto Show on a high note, proclaiming that our Studs and Duds list of new vehicle introductions was rather sparse. Then again, only seven all-new models graced the show--and that was even stretching the "all new" definition--so that made for some ...    Read more

With the debacle of the economic crash, the 2009 Kia Forte was a victim of bad timing, even though Kia had finally gotten its compact sedan right. With the all-new 2014 Kia Forte comes upmarket styling of a European sedan that's longer, wider, and lower than the model it replaces. Positioned ...    Read more

The 2013 Chicago Auto Show is now open to the public, but we were on hand for the special media preview days last week. And while you may have read about the big debuts straight from the show floor, there were a few noteworthy cars on hand that got less ...    Read more