Kia Soul test drive since 2008 hatchback

Visiting Ken and Barbie

Kia Soul stylish teenager toy
In the photographs, Kia Soul looks expressive. If you connect imagination, then in this car you can see the features of the crossover.

The illusion is dispelled when you get next to the car and think about which keys this keychain is better to attach.

Soul keys are clearly not suitable. With all its appearance, the car makes it clear to create it strictly for the city. At the premiere test in Spain, KIA representatives said how they cut off: there would be no all-wheel drive version. Although the car was drawn with an eye on new -fangled crossovers, but it has nothing to do on the off -road. For the sake of a good photo, two of my colleagues drove Soul on a coastal beach near Valencia. Instead of a photo shoot, the guys for an hour and a half were engaged in firing Soul from the sand trap. Could swallow sand for longer, but journalists from other test cars arrived in time. Soul, bogged down on the very belly of Soul, was pulled out in his hands (the equipped mass of the car is only 1170 kg). According to the official classification of Soul, a 5-door hatchback with a overall length of 4105 mm. We note quite a few.

Meanwhile, the designers tried pretty. They really wanted everyone who would look at the car outside, I would like to remember childhood and drag the machine by the rope. Those who are inside, must have had a desire to mentally thank Ken and Barbie for an invitation to visit. In general, Soul is something between the largest toy dump truck and a cell phone with many multi -colored interchangeable panels. A good dozen varieties of body color will be offered to choose from customers. The problem will certainly arise with the choice of the color of the cabin of the cabin: you can prefer light gray with black, with abstract ornament or demonic red-black. Only 15 types of casing.

The car will go to the market in four trim levels: Soul, Soul+, Soul! (So \u200b\u200bwith an exclamation mark) and Soul Sport. The motor line consists of 1.6 liters of engines with a volume of 128 liters of turbodiesel. With. or 115 l. With. and gasoline in 124 liters. With. The car is aggregated by a 5-speed manual gearbox. Diesel modifications provide for the installation of a 4-speed machine. The question arises, where is the model with a gasoline engine equipped with an automatic KP? And not her! And it won't! KIA representatives were sincerely surprised at the fact that in Russia diesel engines are still suspicious, and city young ladies (and who else will buy Soul with a machine gun?) More often (if not always!) Prefer gasoline motors.

Do you know what the KIA marketing department retorted these facts? Quote: They do not have such facts. But they will certainly conduct their research on the Russian market. Let's hope that studies will be crowned with the appearance of modification with a gasoline engine and an automatic KP. After all, the plans for the future of KIA provides for the expansion of the Soul family. There is already an announcement about the imminent start of the production of a car with a two -liter diesel engine with a capacity of 143 liters. With. And it is right!

With those engines that Soul are now placed, there is clearly a shortage of dynamics. In the city, this is not so felt. On the suburban highway, Soul gives up positions and turns into a loser with an ion sign, a loser on the roof. In the first two gears, the car is still somehow tearing forward, and then all hope is in the wind. If he blows into the rear, then a good chance will appear to disperse the car to 170? 180 km/h.


Koreans promise to buyers Soul to offer more than 15 options for decoration of the cabin and 11 colors of the chipper coating

Kia Soul
Engine
Typebenzine G4FC working volume, cm31591 max. Power, l.? p. at about./min. 124/6300 max. moment, NM at about./min. 156/4200
Dynamics
Maximum speed, km/h180 acceleration 0100 km/h, C11
common data
Fuel consumption (EU), l/100 km7.6 volume of fuel tank, L48 Wheel base, mm2550 length, mm4105 width, mm1785 height, mm1610 Equipment mass, kg1170

The text Dantes Yankovsky
 

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