New 2020 Kia Carnival MPV revealed

Kia has introduced the 1st official images of its fourth-technology Carnival persons provider. The refreshed product will go on sale in Korea to the end of summer season, sporting new SUV-impressed styling. The US and Asian marketplaces will observe, but it won’t appear to the Uk.

Styling modifications more than the outgoing product are abundant. Up front, there is a stylised version of the company’s trademark Tiger Nose radiator grille and pair of refreshing wrap-all around LED headlamps. The outgoing car’s boxy dimensions have been retained, while the MPV’s profile has adopted a additional SUV-like visual appeal.

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To enhance the new SUV form, Kia has added a variety of styling features borrowed from the Sorento SUV. The Carnival shares a comparable chrome fin on its C-pillar, near-identical LED daytime working lights, refreshing working boards and new front and rear skid plates. 

Kia has also moved the Carnival’s A-pillar rearwards, lengthened its bonnet and shortened its front overhang. The MPV’s wheelbase has amplified, also, which the corporation suggests has enhanced the quantity of accessible passenger area.

Kia is but to expose facts on the new Carnival’s platform and powertrains and inside. Even so, the past-technology product shared the identical underpinnings as the outgoing Sorento SUV, and we hope Kia will adopt the identical tactic with this new product. 

As these types of, purchasers will very likely be presented the identical 199bhp two.two-litre diesel four-cylinder diesel engine together with a detuned version of the V6 petrol identified in the Stinger GT-S – as they’re the engines which market the very best in the US and Asian marketplaces. Kia has also hinted that the new Carnival is not likely to aspect either a hybrid or PHEV powertrain.

We’re also anticipating the new Carnival to adopt some of the technological innovation identified on the fourth-technology Sorento. The variety-topping product should aspect leather upholstery, climate control, a multifunction steering wheel and adaptive cruise control, together with Kia’s latest ten.twenty five-inch infotainment method and twelve.three-inch electronic instrument panel.

The 2nd-technology Carnival was recognised as the Sedona in Britain. It was marketed concerning 2006 and 2014, but it was pulled from the Uk current market in 2012 due to declining sales figures. Despite this, the Carnival carried out very well in other marketplaces, with additional than two million examples becoming marketed globally considering the fact that the model’s introduction in 1998.

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