IT WASN’T SO LONG AGO that the Kia badge was synonymous with cheap economy cars, built for value above all else; robust enough but bereft of thrills.

Economy cars are still its focus these days, but when the Korean company brought its funky new Soul to Australia in April of this year, it announced that it [...]

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DESPITE WHAT its name might suggest, Adult Swim isn’t a porn channel (sorry to disappoint). Adult Swim is a TV network in the United States that shares its channel space with Cartoon Network, and like its partner, it focuses on cartoons but with an edgier, more teen and adult-oriented style.

Kia Motors in America recently teamed [...]

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Along with prize money to the tune of US$20,000 and an invitation to the FIFA World Player Gala 2010, Frenchman Bruce Grannec has scored a 2009 Kia Soul for his winning efforts in the FIFA Interactive World Cup Final in Barcelona, Spain.

Beating out 530,000 online opponents from 52 countries around the world, Grannec made his [...]

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For the Shanghai Auto Show, Kia has decided that you can have your cake and eat it too. Now, being green no longer means losing your sense of individuality and the Kia SOUL Hybrid shown at Shanghai is out to prove it.

Kia’s boxy new hybrid disposes of the wind-cheating shape of the likes of Honda’s [...]

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Kia has been working hard at making the SOUL into something of a cultural or fashion icon.  And with all of its trendy accessories, colours and graphics options, it’s well on its way to carving just such a niche.

To help reinforce that image in the minds of its potential owners, the Korean carmaker has gone [...]

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Despite Kia’s modest expectations of only 400 Kia SOUL sales for the remainder of the year in Australia, the trendy little CUV is running out the doors of European dealerships, with 5000 units already sold – 13 percent more than Kia’s forecasts.

While the European market gets the same 1.6 litre petrol and diesel engines as [...]

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In 2009, Kia’s slogan “The Power to Surprise” could not be truer.  Official images and spy photos are popping up everywhere for stylish new models from the Korean automaker, and the company is even investigating a new, trendier naming system for its vehicles.

Little surprise then that Kia is pushing the 2009 SOUL with so much [...]

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