In our last post we covered the all-new cee’d’s exterior design thanks to Kia Buzz Official Blog. Now we’re making our way inside to break down its sporty interior.
Design Story Archive
All-new Kia cee’d Design Story I – Exterior
Today on The Korean Car Blog and thanks to our friends from Kia Buzz, we’re going to unfold the first part of the cee’d’s design story from the outside-in, and breakdown its sportiness and unique design elements.
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Peter Schreyer sketches the design elements that define a luxury sedan.
When Kia finally make the debut of his full-size luxury sedan (or Flagship Sedan, as they call), the K9, createde a controversy and all kinds of opinions about if it seems more or less to BMW models. I’m agree with people think it seems a little, but that goes beyond BMW models. Then, today we will see how Peter Schreyer defines a “luxury sedan” or simply, the new K9.
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History: The Kia Pride/Rio over the years.
Sit down, buckle up and let’s take a trip down memory lane to explore a magical makeover story that would make Oprah Winfrey cry (well maybe not Oprah). Today on The Korean Car Blog, and courtesy of Kia Buzz, we’re going to outline the design evolution of the Kia Rio and how it went from an ordinary subcompact to a top selling vehicle that has won multiple prestigious design awards.
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Kia Rio design story II: Interior & Color.
Click to view “Kia Rio design story I: Exterior”.
If “modern” and “youthful” were two keywords in decoding Rio’s exterior design, “firm” and “edgy” should be used to interpret its interior. Kia designers wanted to accommodate drivers’ needs to look good and feel good during weekdays when they are going out to work, as well as during sporty weekends.
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Kia Rio design story: Exterior.
How do you define a design? Is it a shape? A color? Or a form? Team Kia believes design is more than just visible elements. It is a subtle language which is spoken through a car, which you perceive not only with your eyes, but also with your other senses. It is a combination of everything you feel, touch, see and hear.
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Kia Picanto design story: Exterior.
The main concept of the exterior of the All-new Picanto is Distinct & Modern. In other words, highly individual styling and differentiated elements based on clearly distinct modernity give a new identity to this compact car.
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Kia Optima design story: Interior.
With each new Design project comes a new goal and Kia was determined that this new Optima was going to be very aggressive, youthful and sporty. Immediately, we felt very confident that an “aircraft cockpit” inspired theme was the perfect solution for this new interior.
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