KIA Magentis

The new KIA Magentis is on sale from 18,656 euros for the basic version of gasoline. It's a completely different from the previous car on the outside and inside.



The KIA Magentis has elements and mechanical equipment common with the Hyundai Sonata. The most economical diesel version is priced at 21,078 euros. Among the models of similar characteristics, only the Hyundai Sonata 2.0 CRDi TGV I Comfort is cheaper, but has significantly less equipment.


The KIA Magentis four-door saloon and front traction is advisable for anyone who seeks a combination of many elements: a saloon with good relationship between price and equipment, large interior space, a diesel engine pleasant to use and will not mind too that his conduct roadside.


There is great breadth and space available for passengers post: is one of the cars with greater width and space for the legs of the category. In addition, the seats are comfortable.



The KIA Magentis suspension is soft, which can cause movements of the body unpleasant under certain circumstances. Nor has an address with good touch.




With regard to previous KIA Magentis, the new increases in all its exterior dimensions except the width now measures 4,735 mm in length (5 mm), 1,805 mm wide (15 mm less) and 1,480 mm in height (70 mm).



The wheelbase increases 20 mm to 2,720 mm. Therefore, is slightly longer than a MAZDA6, almost like a Ford Mondeo and slightly shorter than a Volkswagen Passat.

KIA Magentis Interior



The KIA Magentis boot capacity, according to SAE, is 420 liters (9% more than in the previous model). The measurement standard in Europe VDA has not been specified, but taking into account the increase of 9%, is about 500 litres.

KIA Magentis Engine



There are two trim levels and equipment for the new KIA Magentis: 'EX II "and" E II. The version with the 2.0 l gasoline engine has finished 'E I'. The KIA Magentis 2.7 V6 is available only with 'EX II. The Diesel may choose both levels of equipment.


According to the provisional list of equipment, all KIA Magentis are: stability control (ESP), six airbags, active head restraints, climate control, power driver's seat, trip computer, controlling the cruising speed (diesel and V6), automatic lights , Alarm, alloy wheels of 16 ", electric and heated mirrors and sensors helps the rear parking lot.


Versions' EX II "have also browser, Bluetooth connectivity for the mobile phone, rain sensor, leather upholstery with heated front seats and electric, automatic dimming inside mirror and alloy wheels of 17". This version has equipment that is optional in almost all models of similar characteristics, such as the browser or leather upholstery.


You can not keep some elements of hardware that do have other similar models, like xenon headlights, lighting active cornering or lane-changing assistant.


The new KIA Magentis is available with three engines. The gasoline is a four-cylinder 2.0 litre 145 hp and a six-cylinder 2.7 litre with 188 hp. The first is new, while the six-cylinder engine is a variant of which bears the Sportage. The diesel engine is a four-cylinder 2.0 litre engine capacity and 140 hp power, with particulate filter.


Versions with 2.0 l engine change have manual series (five speeds the petrol and diesel on six), and optionally, the Diesel can be associated with a shift four-speed automatic. The KIA Magentis 2.7 V6 can be bought only with an automatic gearbox five marches.

It has some benefits and a normal consumption, according to its power and weight, and similar to those of other similar models. The maximum speed of the diesel version (201 kph), and to a lesser extent the acceleration (10.4 s), are somewhat worse for offering some of its competitors, such as the Peugeot 407 and Volkswagen Passat.


With the renewal of the KIA Magentis, Carnival and Sorento, KIA has updated models in almost all market segments. Over the course of 2006, the range of models that KIA will also change the Carens and Opirus.


The new KIA Magentis notable for having a large interior space for occupants, especially for passengers on the rear seats. As can be seen the width available for driver and co-pilot is also very good: 143 cm, just like there are three cars that exceed the KIA Magentis.


Given its scope later, a car that can accommodate enough comfort to three passengers in the back seat, provided they are not very high body mass. Along with the Citroen C5 and the Volvo S60, is the model with greater width rear (142 cm). The space for the legs (76 cm) is also excellent, only the Ford Mondeo and Opel Signum manage to overcome it. The rear height (91 cm) is not as good, causing that occupant of more than 1.80 m tall rock on the roof.


To find a model that much more livable KIA Magentis car must go much larger. The seats are comfortable, have enough lateral grip, and leather upholstery transpires correctly. The rear seat can be folded into sections; to do so we must pull the controls that exist in the trunk.


The KIA Magentis internal adjustment is good. Some materials such as plastic used in the bottom of the dashboard and doors, do not give quality printing. The plastic top of the dashboard and doors have an average quality and good touch.


The KIA Magentis engine is performing well, is very smooth and very pleasant to use. It has good response above 2,000 rpm, and allows joining roads and perform overtaking with sufficient.


The noise of the engine, when you turn to low and medium regime, is very content. With the engine cold and when it takes the engine to a high regime, noise hinders the talks at a normal volume. The six-speed manual has a good operation; it can change very quickly and with sufficient precision.


The sixth running of 48.3 mph with tyres 215/50 VR17, is struggling to move swiftly in the KIA Magentis steep slopes, being necessary to put a march less. It is long: a maximum speed in the sixth, turn 4,160 rpm, above the maximum power regime.

In sequential mode, is the driver who decides when to change gear unless we arrive at 4,300 rpm, when it automatically becomes the march immediately above. As in the automatic mode, is slow to engage the gears.


The KIA Magentis suspension is independent in both axes. It is something soft, which causes, driving on roads that do not have a firm too well, it has some pitching and movements of the body unpleasant. The suspension requires that driving the KIA Magentis is smooth so as not to miss the comfort on board.

KIA Sportage

The KIA Sportage is all-terrain bodywork with five doors that measure 4.35 meters long. It is available with three different engines - two petrol engines (141 or 175 hp) and one diesel (140 hp) - and two traction systems (front and total connectable automatically).

The best thing about the KIA Sportage is the good relationship between price and product offering in general terms. The worst thing is that you can only have stability control petrol version of 175 hp.

There are three levels of equipment: "Concept", "Active" and "Emotion" (which replaced the former "LX" and "E"). Since the first series of KIA includes front air bags front, air conditioning, electric windows, power locks, moon feasible or bars on the roof.

The KIA Sportage can be very satisfying for those who do not look for an all-terrain with refined materials or items of equipment novel.

The KIA Sportage turbo of 140 hp version is available with both traction systems from 21,998 €. The price difference between the version traction with the front and traction total is 3,200 €, because the total traction equipment has a more abundant ("Active"): traction control, climate control, computer, fog lights and automatic connection .


KIA Sportage

The KIA Sportage Diesel is a four-cylinder 140 hp. Emphasizes that vibrates slightly; its noise is well insulated and has a smooth operation. Compared with other similar turbo engine capacity and power, the KIA works best at low revolutions that high.

Stability road is normal; unfolds with better road curves radio that the broad needs to be done to support changes very fast. The suspension has a good absorption capacity and is firm but not dry: it is in a middle ground between the softer (Land Rover Freelander 2 or Jeep Compass) and tougher (Suzuki Grand Vitara).

KIA Sportage Interior

In camp, the KIA Sportage is sufficient for driving on rough roads or sparsely. Its total traction system has certain shortcomings when the ground is complicated, and it has no KIA Sportage Engine

The KIA Sportage passenger compartment is large given the size of the body, especially in the rear seats where there is enough space for leg and headroom up to the ceiling for non-grazing his head (up passengers from 1.95 m high). The front seats can not be delayed much; knees are close to the dashboard if the driver is high.
You can access the trunk either by opening the gate or just the moon. It has 332 litres capacity, not counting the double bottom; it has a plastic receptacle to organize objects that are kept there. There are details that make it a practical car on a daily basis, as there are various retractable hooks over the passenger compartment: one on the dashboard, to hang a bag, or four in the trunk, where you can leave hanging bags of purchase.
For exterior dimensions, is similar to the Hyundai Tucson (model with which it shares many elements) or Toyota RAV4. For what it costs, is an alternative to the Hyundai Tucson, the Jeep Compass or the SsangYong Action (which is longer). A Toyota RAV4 D-4D 136 hp Moon is more expensive, but it has stability control.
Despite the fact that only measured 4.35 meters long, KIA Sportage offers a relatively large carrier, mainly in the rear seats.
In the KIA Sportage front seats there is sufficient site unless the driver is more than 1.90 m, in which case the knees are too close to the dashboard. This is so for two reasons: one, by the design of the dashboard in that area (is not reflected as such in other cars), the other being that the tour longitudinal seat is not large.
Among the nearest position and the furthest from the steering wheel there, according to our measurements, 130 mm; what is normal that there are about 200 mm.
The riding position is characteristic of an all-terrain, with the sidewalk high above ground and the floor of the car. The driver's seat height adjustment has two wheels by modifying the height of the sidewalk, can lift whatever front, rear or both. Access to these controls is good when it is granted. The seat holding the body properly during a normal driving and it was convenient to make long journeys.
The KIA Sportage steering wheel has only regulation in height. The rear seats offer plenty of room for legs and height to the roof enough for people of 1.90 m. Although there is plenty of space, rear head restraints have a short tour and ineffective for the highest.
A third passenger, placed in the central plaza, will be handy if you are not very big his companions, because the overall width is not very generous, by contrast, three children will have no problems either because of width and there is nothing in the area The feet that can annoy you go in the middle.
The KIA Sportage rear seat is divided into two parts (60:40). The backs can be adjusted in various positions, leaving the back more or less inclined and decreasing or increasing the capacity of the trunk. There is a system that allows Fold the rear seat and leave the flat cargo surface: to reduce the backing, the sidewalk moves forward and down (the hole where it will occupy feet) and is supported horizontal trimming with the plane Load

One of the things that takes place is enough to make objects that are carried over this KIA meets regularly and successfully in this respect: there is a drawer with lid, large, to make things hidden under the armrest of the central front seats, bags doors are large and there are many holes in the console and put the keys, the phone or purse. Except for the doors, the rest of these receptacles are coated with the substance or rubber-like material velvet. The glove box is small; his left at the bottom of the dashboard, there is a folding hook to hang a bag.
At boot can be accessed by opening the gate or just around the moon. If we leave the rear of the car stuck to a wall site is not open to the moon, something that it is possible that other models have this system. The cargo plane is 67 cm from the ground.
The boot has 332 litres capacity until the curtain that covers it. This is not the actual volume as, under the floor, there is a double bottom with various compartments to make things (in one of them is the cat). The trunk is lit, has a cargo net to hold and there are four hooks for hanging bags, three in the backs and another on the right side.
To hide the luggage is a roller tray; does not go as usual placed along the back, but about 25 cm and 10 cm him below its upper edge. To cover the gap that remains, there are two pieces of tissue that attach some hooks through plastic guides rear head restraints.
The KIA Sportage is not a refined car: plastics are hard and not have the same settings that models like the Honda CR-V or the Land Rover Freelander 2 (which are more expensive) but it is better at this point in a Jeep Compass.
There are some areas for improvement in some elements such as lighting provided by headlamps or operation of the automatic climate control, which has abrupt changes in air temperature that ejected.

By road, the KIA Sportage is worse than a touch Honda CR-V or Toyota RAV4. Outside it does not have the ability to travel on rough areas of a Land Rover Freelander 2 or a Suzuki Grand Vitara. But, in general, can successfully operate in both fields.

In city and highway is a fast and comfortable car that conveys a sense of poise who leads it. The suspension, independent on four wheels, is harsher than that of a Jeep Compass or a Land Rover Freelander but is not dry and makes it more convenient to travel in this KIA that in a Suzuki Grand Vitara, which is drier suspension.

In slow road swings are not much but it shows that it is a car with a high center of gravity. Off-road unfolds with some ease, except where it is lacking a reductive or a traction system more efficient. The angles are characteristic good enough compared to other cars of this type; headroom until the soil is 195 mm.
Versions with traction total operating traction in front while not skate any of the front wheels. When any of them patina, an electronic system automatically clutch the rear axle to a point that can be united with the front.
It is possible to make the front and rear axles are in solidarity with a button on the dashboard, where the car is moving at less than 30 km / h. By passing this speed, as long as the front wheels not slipping, the rear axle is automatically disengaged from striker gradually; is completely disengaged when the car reaches 40 km / h. This function is equivalent to a central locking in a car that takes central differential (the KIA Sportage does not carry it) and it is advisable to move into areas with the ground very slippery (snow or mud).
The traction control, which prevents a wheel slipping too, does not work well during a demanding off-road use. If there is a crossing of axes that can not be taken with a certain inertia, it may be impossible to move forward: first, because they can not get the wheels that have grip it can move the car and secondly, because it can limit the power of the engine until Cal. For this reason, sometimes it may be desirable to disable this control to make progress (for example, to climb by a sloping ramp and very slippery).
With the diesel engine of 140 hp, the KIA Sportage is slower and spends a little more than other all-terrain engines with similar power. One is that not much was heard from inside, and that it is not a quiet engine (the car is well insulated).
The other is the way it delivers the power, opposing the Volkswagen TDI engine (which has, for example, the Jeep Compass): the KIA begins to push since very few revolutions, at 1,500 rpm already note which has the force, and when exceeds 3,000 rpm starts to decline his push to the point where it costs and reach over 4,000 rpm. This makes it a comfortable car to use in urban traffic, because there is no recourse to change gears frequently.
On the road, it is preferable to start the overtaking in a long march, and take advantage of the lower and middle regime, to do so in a shorter regime to a higher.

Kia Rio Sedan

The new Kia Rio Sedan - a combination of style and technical sophistication, comfort and security.


Kia Rio Sedan was created in the light of the South Korean designers the highest requirements of European consumers. Preserving their passionate, incendiary name, he became a dynamic and sports a more conservative predecessor.


Expressive optics made the car more noticeable individual and in the flow of traffic.


Kia Rio Sedan

New Kia Rio Sedan is not only became better but grew: larger size makes it possible to talk about a better capacity of the car in its class.

Kia Rio Sedan WRX


The spacious lounge with decoration of high-quality materials, solid seat noble forms allow convenience settle with the driver and passengers of any size and growth.

Kia Rio Sedan Interior


Kia Rio Sedan has such functions as a fully automated temperature control, the system will alert the rear, the electronic access to the car.


Along with the comfort of the new Kia Rio Sedan gives its owner the confidence and calm because this model is equipped with every imaginable modern security systems: ABS system, exchange rate stability program, dual front, side and upper airbags.

Kia Rio Sedan Engine


Larger distance between the front and rear axles and the wheels of each axis provides additional stability during movement. Independent front and rear suspension enable soft and comfortable ride even in rough road surface.