Kia Stonic – new crossover for Europe

20 June 2017

The Koreans have published pictures of a new subcompact crossover

Today, Kia has unveiled the official photos of Kia Stonic 2018 – compact crossover In the segment. In the "network" was posted three pictures showing the styling of the exterior and interior of a new car. As expected our previous article by Stonic, looks real not much different from the sketches of the designer. But the assumption that a little konzervativna Kia Hyundai, if you think about the Kona, not quite true. The Kia Stonic modern urban design, and almost all styling elements the new product is markedly different from the current model range Kia.

Exterior Kia Stonic in General, anything new will not tell – it was created according to the canons of the class with the maximum efficiency and practicality, but the front part still noteworthy. The impression that the designers, creating a Kia Stonic, too clever with the styling of the grille now she looks like a beak. To headlights no complaints, everything is in place – led daytime running lights, lenses lamp head lighting and pleasing to the eye look. A front bumper can just be attributed to the classic architecture of the Kia, with its vertical inserts under the fog lights and wide "mouth" lower grille.

The rear part of the Kia Stonic not be confused with anything, at least you will know the style of Korean brand. Lights resemble the "big brother" Kia Sportage, but without a unifying lines for Stonic is the only benefit. Despite the fact that the car is exclusively designed for urban trips, on the perimeter of its lower part there is a strip of unpainted hard plastic. Like, on Stonic with a strong desire and "primer" a try.

The published photo of the car appeared in bi-colour and with the roof rails – it speaks about what kind of target audience primarily targeted Koreans – creative and not very creative young people under 30, prefer active rest on the nature. Kia Stonic will be available in 20 two-tone coloring, including five different colors for the roof.

Interior Kia Stonic 2018, as expected, does not differ from the one shown on the design drawings. Strict recognizable instrument panel and the system module conditioning the Kia Rio 2018 and ornate inserts in the color of the roof (if the vehicle is two tone). In the center of the dashboard located touch screen media system. Steering wheel – typical of Kia's latest generation, with a scattering of buttons on the remote control systems of the car.

Regarding the power plants for Kia Stonic we were not wrong: the petrol engines in volume of 1,0 l T-GDI, 1.25 l and 1.4 l and 1.6-liter diesel. Standard in the European models will include stability control (ESC) and vehicle stability (VSM). The latter, incidentally, can control the thrust vector through the subsystem TVB, otorbaeva wheel, to follow a rectilinear motion (SLS) and control the process of braking in curves (CBC).

Recall that Kia Stonic designed exclusively for the European market and on the Russian roads we, unfortunately, will not see.

.