KIA MOTORS has released a handful of images of the new Euro-market cee’d five-door hatch, a month ahead of the car’s official debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show.

Kia’s new corporate face has been grafted onto the c’eed’s nose, with the now-familiar chrome-edged ‘dogbone’ grille taking pride of place. Headlight clusters are redesigned as well, and [...]

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THREE YEARS SINCE the debut of the Cee’d badge overseas, Kia’s impressive German-designed and Slovakia-built hatch is coming in for a makeover.

Spied shakedown testing on the Nurburgring, these images of the European-market 2010 Kia Cee’d reveal a more sculpted bonnet, while the usual manufacturer camouflage obscures many of the finer details of the front and [...]

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UK-based Chad Racing and Kia Motors Belgium have teamed up to enter a pair of Kia pro_cee’d touring cars in the 2009 BTCS season, with testing over the past week producing “encouraging” lap times.

Weighing less than 950kg and powered by a 328kW (440hp) 2.0 litre engine tuned by renowned UK outfit Mountune, the BTCS Kia [...]

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With a pretty good track record for concepts up its sleeve, Kia is set to unveil its latest effort at the Geneva Motor Show: The Kia No 3. Whether that’s literally the word ‘no’ or the abbreviation of ‘number’, we can’t tell you.
In fact, there’s not much we can tell you about the No 3, [...]

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Kia has announced that full-scale production of six new Kia cee’d ISG models (Idle Stop & Go) has begun at its Zilina plant in Slovakia. European customers will be the first to receive the ISG equipped cars which can reduce fuel consumption by as much as 15 percent during city driving.

Kia has been investing large [...]

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In addition to debuting its highly-anticipated Soul crossover at the Paris Motor Show, Kia also brought along two hybrid concepts, a hydrogen-powered Sportage and the new Idle Stop & Go (ISG) equipped cee’d to demonstrate its budding green-car program.

The boxy Soul is being touted by many in the motoring press as being a potential sales [...]

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Kia is ‘going green’ with their 2009 European product line-up by producing an ‘eco’ version of their new cee’d. Based largely on the eco_cee’d concept car that Kia unveiled at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show the aim is to achieve better fuel consumption, with fewer emissions while offering an enjoyable driving experience.

The eco_cee’d concept combined [...]

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Yet another Frankfurt International Motor Show debutant has been announced. Kia Motors Corporation released an official preview image of their new Pro-cee’d three door hatch in late July and confirmed that the sporty new hatch will make its world premier in Frankfurt.

Based closely on the pro_cee’d concept seen at the Paris Motor Show in 2006, [...]

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The Kia cee’d hasn’t featured on CarUpdate yet and I have to confess that its all because of the name. You’re probably thinking that’s a faintly ridiculous reason but I just haven’t been able to come to grips with cee’d as a name. How do you say it? Should it sound like a sneeze? What [...]

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