Kia Motors America (KMA) today announced it is teaming up with AutoTrader.com, the nation’s leading online classified automotive Web site, to add Kia dealers’ new vehicle inventory to the classified listings on the site. Among the first manufacturers to provide this new car feed, the nearly 15 million unique visitors on AutoTrader.com will have access to all new vehicle inventories of Kia dealers nationwide.
Kia Motors Corporation has confirmed that its all-new Kia Soul urban crossover passenger car will go on sale early next year with a choice of two gasoline engines and one diesel* engine with manual or automatic transmission (depending on individual markets).
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Kia’s all-new Forte compact sedan that will replace the outgoing Cerato / Spectra models was unveiled in Korea this week. The new model will be available with a 124 HP 1.6-liter gasoline and a 128 HP 1.6-liter turbo diesel engine. Prices for the Forte in its home turf range from 11.9 million won (about $11,200) to 19.6 million won (approx $18,500), depending on the trim levels and engine types.
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Let’s clear the air: we get that the sudden drop in large SUV sales casts the launch of the 2009 Kia Borrego in a questionable light. But when work began on the body-on-frame utility nearly four years back, truck sales in the U.S. totaled 9.6 million units and were predicted to increase each year until 2009. We can’t blame Kia for wanting a piece of that pie.
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Kia will bring its new Soul small car to rival Scion in the U.S. by early 2009. The Korean automaker also plans to introduce the car in the Chinese market by December 2009.
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