Kia News

There's not much entirely new news about the 2013 Kia K9 full-size luxury sedan. It shares its platform with the Hyundai Genesis sedan, will sport a 3.3-liter V-6 with 290 horsepower as its standard engine, and will likely be the most expensive Kia this side of an Optima race car ...    Read more

If you didn't know, Korea's Hyundai and Kia are popular car manufacturers. In fact, the brands are so popular that each, respectively, again beat all kinds of company sales numbers last month. This is what happens when an automaker commits to building quality and feature-laden products at an affordable price. ...    Read more

We like how SUVs and crossovers offer height to see ahead, and offering plenty of space for when you need to haul those 3-5 extra people. But, more and more, we hate the way the swill gasoline in the process. But you have to pay at the pumps to play, ...    Read more

If ever you thought to yourself Kia was the perpetual second fiddle to fellow Korean automaker Hyundai, now might be time to reconsider that. Kia has begun advertising its new K9 full-size luxury sedan in its South Korean home market, showing off just what it's got. In the spot we have, ...    Read more

If you don't know who William T. Sherman was, he was a general of the Union Army during the Civil War who helped coin the term "Total War," pillaging every Confederate city in his path until he reached Georgia. It's a somewhat appropriate analogy, as Kia shares its largest North ...    Read more

You have a big family. You also have some pride left at stake, and are too image-conscious to be driving what you should be driving: a minivan. So what do you do? What kind of people-mover do you get, especially given the ever-fluctuating nature of gas prices? Fortunately, SUVs aren't what ...    Read more

Not ones to rest on their laurels, the folks at Kia have refreshed the midsize 2013 Kia Sorento crossover, giving it a slightly updated look and more features in each trim level. Starting with the base 2013 Kia Sorento LX, the Korean automaker will make its voice-command ...    Read more

Plenty has happened between when we drove the 2012 Kia Rio 5-door hatchback last October and now. Last year at that time, we swarmed Austin, Texas, with the likes of dozens of other media outlets for a chance to drive Kia's latest ...    Read more

Next week, automobile manufacturers, executives, and journalists from around the world will gather in the snowy confines of Geneva, Switzerland. There, they will ignore the lake, the scenery, and pretty much everything else that makes this historic city, well, historic, and instead gather into a convention center (which looks like ...    Read more

Forgive me for dragging a dated late-90s video game reference (and what can rightfully be called the Adam and Eve of all Internet memes) through the mud and onto the tele-screens of your short-term memories. But seriously, the Korean companies were on their game this month. If the Hyundai ...    Read more

No matter how many "man vans," "sport vans," and "swagger wagons" we see, there's never going to be a minivan that sets the motoring world alight in this millennium. But they're much more important than they get credit for. In 2011, the top five minivans in the U.S. accounted for 450,000 ...    Read more

Kia's KH Concept is now officially the Kia K9, a Korean-market luxury sedan, and the pinnacle of Kia's K-themed lineup. Unveiled today in Korea, little is known about the all-new, rear-wheel drive model, especially under the hood. According to Kia, the K9 will feature a host of technological advancements, and is said ...    Read more

Automotive safety system manufacturer Autoliv has come under scrutiny from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration for faulty side airbag parts. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and Subaru all employee airbags parts sourced from Autoliv, and all four automakers recently issued recalls pertaining to problems with the side airbag. In total, 2,750 ...    Read more

Car shoppers have never had it so well. If you're shopping for a new car, take a second and ask your parents or grandfather what it's like to have a Dodge Aspen rust on its way back from the showroom, or a Hyundai Excel that did anything but fulfill its ...    Read more

You get the impression sometimes that people just don't understand the relationship between Hyundai and Kia. They're fundamentally both part of the larger conglomerate of Hyundai Heavy Industries. But they're different, like Romulus and Remus, but without the whole raised-by-wolves aspect. In the U.S., Kia and Hyundai see one another as ...    Read more

Does there really need to be a reason to make a special edition car? Of course there doesn't! Today is Monday, and that's why the 2012 Kia Soul Red Rock Edition exists. Enough said. The 2012 Kia Soul Red Rock Edition is, in fact, the seventh special edition of the Soul. ...    Read more

Kia Motors has released pictures of its first rear-wheel-drive full-size sedan, a vehicle we're likely to see on our shores sooner than later. Codenamed the Kia K9, slotting above the Kia Optima (K5) and Korean-market Kia Cadenza (K7), it will share its underpinnings with the Hyundai Genesis luxury sedan already ...    Read more

The Chicago Auto Show bills itself as the biggest in the world, and to a certain extent that's true. McCormick Place is the biggest convention center in the world, and the show itself attracts huge numbers of visitors when it's open to the public. Like other auto shows, it's a chance ...    Read more

Riding the good vibes from its record sales year in 2011 and its humorous advertising campaigns of late, Kia has had to make tough decisions on what to do with its at-capacity manufacturing and its inability to keep up with demand. ...    Read more

Korean auto makers Hyundai and Kia had a very lucrative year in 2011 and that trend of success appears to have carried over into the first month of 2012. Both auto makers had a January for the record books (again) moving a staggering 78,211 units combined. Kia is up 27.8 ...    Read more

The Super Bowl of advertising is just around the corner, once again coinciding with the actual Super bowl. Good thing too, since it's a sure bet that not all of the millions of people watching The Big Game actually enjoy football. However, all of them do buy stuff on occasion, ...    Read more

What It Is/Who It's For A niche in the midsize segment has emerged for greenies and eco trumpeters. The Optima Hybrid has come to play. Best Thing Buying a mainstream midsizer no longer means compromising between sexy styling, good fuel economy, and the ability to haul five people in comfort. Worst Thing The ...    Read more

The little Korean automaker that could, Kia, is delaying stop/start technology in its 2012 Kia Rio after several unfavorable media reviews. The stop/start function—which Kia calls ISG for Idle, Stop and Go—will remain idle until engineers can "tweak" the system. Several members of the media who reviewed the 2012 Kia Rio ...    Read more

Kia Motors is recalling 145,755 Kia Optima and Kia Rondo models to repair a faulty clock spring in the steering column that could potentially stop the driver's front airbag from working. The recall affects 2006 to 2008 Kia Optima sedans manufactured between Sept. 29, 2005 and Jan. 29, 2008 and model ...    Read more

Over the past few days, we've covered touchscreens, voice commands, head-up displays, applications, smartphone integration, and various other technologies featured at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But what does much of it come down to? The cloud. Technology in cars is finally at a point where it needs ...    Read more