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Big league automotive designers will invariably tell you that designing small vehicles is more challenging than adding huge style quotients to large vehicles. Lines can't be as long. Specific attributes won't extend. The canvas is just too tiny. Designers of the Kia Soul, however, managed to utilize large car proportions with small car dimensions to create one of the most handsome econocars in a long time.
- 2010 Kia Soul Mini-mpv Scooped Inside And Out
First of all, allow us to say that it is not at all certain that Kia's new mini MPV model will use the Soul name. However, the car which bears the codename YN, does share the same platform with the new Kia Soul as well as with the Hyundai i20. Set...
- Niche Car Sales In Canada - April 2010
Unlike its equivalent Sales Stats chart from the United States, Canada's Niche Car Sales Graph doesn't include any so-called 4-door coupes. There's not a single Scion, either. Scions won't be available in Canada for a few months and the...
- Kia Soul Performs Well In Euro Ncap Testing - Another Feather In Its Cap
As if the Kia Soul didn't have enough going for it already, the results from its first European crash test exams are back, and Kia's Soul is safe. Strong initial sales, favourable opinions from automotive critics everywhere, and an 86% on child...
- Kia Soul Exterior Looks Bigger - Kia Soul Exterior Is Small
With a wheelbase of 100.4 inches, the height of a 5ft-3inch human, width similar to that of The Good Car Guy's height, and length of The Good Car Guy plus Yao Ming, the new Kia Soul sounds large. Put another way, the new Kia Soul has a wheelbase just...
- The Kia Soul Picture Gallery Has Grown
The Kia Soul looks like a wonderfully inexpensive competitor for the Honda Element, but you can bet your bottom dollar that any small car buyer (Civic, Matrix, Scion xB) will gravitate to a vehicle that looks good with a good-looking price tag. Kia...
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THE GOOD 12 v3.0 - PART V
KIA SOUL
Big league automotive designers will invariably tell you that designing small vehicles is more challenging than adding huge style quotients to large vehicles. Lines can't be as long. Specific attributes won't extend. The canvas is just too tiny. Designers of the Kia Soul, however, managed to utilize large car proportions with small car dimensions to create one of the most handsome econocars in a long time.
Priced in a basement labelled, "Bargain", the Kia Soul offers the sort of trim and equipment small car buyers expect. Under the hood, power is far from prodigious but plenty for a vehicle of the Soul's size. Handling is set up to be significantly more sporty than that of the Nissan Cube, the Kia Soul's most direct competition. The Soul's interior fit and finish bears the trademark of an improving brand - not Audiesque but bunches better than it once was in Korean cars.
People generally flock to the newest or flashiest product, whether it's phones or clothes or interior decor or.... cars. And as we all know, people generally don't care if that newer, flashier product is a little more expensive. Imagine the newer, flashier model being the inexpensive model; a solid all-around model with everything you need and want. To be precise, you don't need to imagine any longer - the Kia Soul is the newer, flashier, less expensive model.
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Engines: 122/142 horsepower; 115/137 lb-ft of torque from a 1.6L inline-four and a 2.0L inline-four
Base USD Price: $13,300
City Mileage: 24-26 mpg
Square Route: The Soul's battle with the Nissan Cube has been thoroughly chronicled here at GoodCarBadCar.net. Beyond that, the Scion xB and Honda Element have played the boxy field, too. Through a healthy chunk of 2009, it seems as though Kia's the one brand to have successfully decoded the formula in both the USA and Canada. The route to square is through Guangju.
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- 2010 Kia Soul Mini-mpv Scooped Inside And Out
First of all, allow us to say that it is not at all certain that Kia's new mini MPV model will use the Soul name. However, the car which bears the codename YN, does share the same platform with the new Kia Soul as well as with the Hyundai i20. Set...
- Niche Car Sales In Canada - April 2010
Unlike its equivalent Sales Stats chart from the United States, Canada's Niche Car Sales Graph doesn't include any so-called 4-door coupes. There's not a single Scion, either. Scions won't be available in Canada for a few months and the...
- Kia Soul Performs Well In Euro Ncap Testing - Another Feather In Its Cap
As if the Kia Soul didn't have enough going for it already, the results from its first European crash test exams are back, and Kia's Soul is safe. Strong initial sales, favourable opinions from automotive critics everywhere, and an 86% on child...
- Kia Soul Exterior Looks Bigger - Kia Soul Exterior Is Small
With a wheelbase of 100.4 inches, the height of a 5ft-3inch human, width similar to that of The Good Car Guy's height, and length of The Good Car Guy plus Yao Ming, the new Kia Soul sounds large. Put another way, the new Kia Soul has a wheelbase just...
- The Kia Soul Picture Gallery Has Grown
The Kia Soul looks like a wonderfully inexpensive competitor for the Honda Element, but you can bet your bottom dollar that any small car buyer (Civic, Matrix, Scion xB) will gravitate to a vehicle that looks good with a good-looking price tag. Kia...