Posts Tagged ‘kia sorento’

Kia may introduce unibody pickup truck with next-gen Sorento

Monday, March 17th, 2008
When Kia debuts the next-generation mid-sized Sorento SUV in a couple of years, the South Korean brand is expected to migrate to a front-wheel-drive unibody platform. That would make the Sorento like many of its competitors in this size class such as the Honda Pilot, Toyota Highlander and Ford Edge.......

2009 Nissan Murano earns IIHS Top Safety Pick rating

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has just finished the latest round of their long running series of crash tests of new vehicles. This time around they evaluated nine different mid-sized SUVs and CUVs. IIHS does front, rear and side impact testing on each of the vehicles and in the l......

Detroit 2008: Kia Borrego arrives at the wrong time

Friday, November 2nd, 2007
click above for more high-res live shots of the 2009 Kia BorregoPerhaps the biggest news about the Kia Borrego is that it marks the introduction of a V8 to the Korean automaker's powertrain arsenal. On the other hand, maybe we're just power-addled. Lobbing an entry into the midsize-SUV arena, Kia ha......

IIHS finds most trucks, SUVs and minivans have poor head restraints

Monday, April 30th, 2007
Over the past few years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has been testing the effectiveness of head and neck restraints in most of the new models that it puts through its battery of batterings, and with good reason. Rear-end collisions are the number one crash on American roads. Th......

Hyundai tops in Strategic Vision Total Quality Awards, Toyota a no show

Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Strategic Vision has released its results for the 2007 Total Quality Awards, and the final tally is a bit surprising. For the first time ever, Hyundai has risen to share the position of having the most models leading a segment, along with Nissan. Both brands had three models with the top Total Quali......

Take our cars, please: Top 10 cash-back offers

Monday, July 31st, 2006
Automakers with remaining 2006 inventory are getting desperate in some cases to get rid of their lot. Cars.com has assembled the 10 best incentive offers based on the percentage off of a car's base MSRP, and Kia tops the list by offering 26.32% off the Sorento and 23.87% of off the Sedona minivan. W......

Spy Shots: 2008/9 Kia Sorento

Saturday, July 1st, 2006
Brenda Priddy has snapped what appears to be the next Kia Sorento out testing on public roads. The Car Connection refers to it as the 2007 Kia Sorento, but after conferring with some people in the know we're going to place the next Sorento out a little farther, 2008 or 2009 at the earliest. The next......

Tomato ANP Kia Sorento

Saturday, June 10th, 2006
Yes Virginia, there is a Kia tuner Tomato Auto & Product Design, also known as Tomato ANP, produces aftermarket accessories for the South Korean and other Asian auto markets. You've probably seen a Tomato body kit on a Tiburon here in the States, as many members of the Hyundai Nation like to ......

New York Auto Show: Kia shows fortified Sorento for 2007

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Kia is giving its popular Sorento SUV a midlife makeover for 2007.Exterior changes will require a studious eye, but they amount to new projector-beam headlamps and reworked front and rear bumper trims, with certain models receiving new wheel designs. The changes likely won't do much to alter existin......