Kia Picanto: Stop being cute
The new direction at Kia Picanto is right, says ChroniquesDuVasteMonde editor Barbara Voigt
Since I'm no longer right now. The whole world philosophizes about how feminine the future is. But successful automakers are proud to point out that one or the other model now becomes more distinctive, more aggressive, more dynamic, in short, even more masculine. Does anyone still think that the feminine taste depends on the saucer-kiss-kiss-child-scheme?
For me, for example, the new, emphatically more powerful Kia Picanto is more attractive to classes than its - quite successful - predecessor. He is standing next to me at the traffic light when I'm on a test drive with the new one. Kia Picanto the first is more like the basic car design of a small car. Quite different my model: trendy in Lime Green painted, with Kia-typical? Tigernasen? - Grille, chic interior and newly designed, bulligeren tail.
A true Schreyer, says Product Manager Matthias Troge. This refers to Kia chief designer Peter Schreyer, who switched from Audi / VW to the Koreans five years ago and whose design workshops were visibly mixed up.
The Kia Picanto looks all around higher quality, as his low budget price would suggest, and runs as uncomplicated as I would like from a "city car". Next year, according to Kia plans, 15,000 Picanto are on the road, a third of them as a three-door, which comes on the market here in autumn. I hear something more masculine. Well then. , ,
INFO: The Kia Picanto (3.60 m long, 1.60 m wide, 1.48 m high) drives with 85 hp up to 171 km / h fast and consumed as petrol engine with automatic start / stop from 4.1 l / 100 km (CO2 : 90 g / km). Entry price (69 hp / five-door): 9390 euros. From autumn also for LPG gas (82 hp).
