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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VICTORIA WILL BECOME the first state in Australia to make stability control a compulsory standard feature on all new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles sold from January 2011 onwards, a move that the state government says will drastically lower the road toll.

The Victorian Government is proposing an amendment to Victoria’s road safety legislation to [...]

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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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JUST AS KIA Australia Public Relations Manager Jonathan Fletcher predicted at the Australian launch of the 2009 Kia Soul, the Korean manufacturer’s funky new small car has achieved top honours in its Euro NCAP safety testing.

According to Euro NCAP, the Soul achieved maximum points in the program’s new testing scheme for child and adult protection [...]

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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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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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It’s a day late for us here in Oz (you know, that dateline thing), but we couldn’t resist posting up one of the more humorous April Fools gags that’s been circulating the internet.

The Kia Soul shown above is sporting the newly-developed Air Propulsion and Retardation Installation Line system (A.P.R.I.L) which allows the Soul to harness [...]

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Following successful debuts at International Motor Shows overseas, Kia has unveiled not just one, but five unique examples of its funky new Soul car. The Soul marks another design success for Kia Chief Design Officer Peter Schreyer - previously responsible for the first generation Audi TT [...]

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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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Proof that the Korean automotive onslaught has only just begun is the announcement by Kia Motor Corporation that its funky all-new five-door hatchback, the Kia Soul, is to be marketed globally after its release in February 2009. Both in name and in style, as the accompanying images show, the Soul [...]

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