THE FACELIFTED KIA RIO - featuring the new family grille created by Chief Designer Peter Schreyer - will land in Australian showrooms in the fourth quarter of this year.

Sold in Korea as the Pride, the Rio is the company’s volume-selling entry-level model. The refreshed styling of the update will bring the little Kia in line [...]

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With the trickle of ‘doom and gloom’ news items that are hitting our inboxes rapidly turning into a flood, it is refreshing to learn that not all manufacturers appear to be feeling the pain - yet.

Kia has announced an increase in global September sales, with sales for the month up 2.7 percent on the same [...]

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Toyota has just announced that in conjunction with its luxury brand Lexus it has sold more than 1 million petrol-electric hybrids. The one we all know and love (we don’t but you might…) is the Prius which first saw the light of day in 1997 when it was launched in Japan.

The Prius has gone on [...]

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Kia first introduced us to their Rio petrol-electric hybrid at the Geneva Motor Show and while another hybrid is hardly big news the fact that it promises to be one of the first ‘affordable’ hybrids is.

Based on the Kia Rio sedan it combines a 66Kw 1.4-litre petrol engine with a 12kW, 95 Nm AC synchronised [...]

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