Quick spin: Kia K900 5.0 V8 420 hp

by Erick Uceda | May 12, 2014 | All News, Kia, Reviews

  This is a car that we were expecting from Kia since Peter Schreyer took over and started redesigning the new Kia models. On December 17, 2010 the South Korean manufacture decided to discontinue the Amanti/Opirus, a car that was able to win some awards and also...

Kia To Launch Small Turbocharged Engines To B & C Segments Cars From 2015

by Jose Antonio Lopez | May 9, 2014 | All News, Kia, Technical

Long ago Kia Motors announced a new family of small 1.0 & 1.2-liter Turbo GDi engines (from Kappa engine family), ready to be fitted into the new Rio and cee’d, but those models were launched in 2011 and 2012 with normally aspirated Kappa and Gamma engines. What...

Kia Motors Global Sales Up 4.9 in April

by Jose Antonio Lopez | May 8, 2014 | All News, Kia

Kia Motors Corporation announced today its global sales figures (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants) for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for April 2014, recording a total of 251,120 units sold.  This figure...

Kia Motors’ Sportage & Mohave Come Back With a 30% Growth

by Jose Antonio Lopez | May 8, 2014 | All News, Kia

Kia Motors’ two SUV models—Sportage R and Mojave—served as a buttress for sustaining the company’s first-quarter performance. The two “old body” models, which were released four or six years ago, marked a robust year-to-year growth of 30 percent in the January-March...

Exclusive Interview: Kyle Keenan and The Kia Rio B-spec

by Erick Uceda | May 7, 2014 | All News, Kia, Motorsports

Here we go with another exclusive interview at the Korean Car Blog and in this opportunity we have Kyle Keenan, a young racer who  recently have joined the Kinetic Motorsports group. Let’s meet Kyle! Tell us your name, age and where you from? My name is Kyle...