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Kia-world blog provides you one of the largest Kia Kee Sports Coupe concept  image galleries on the web! Take a look at the part one, the beautifull exterior image gallery!

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Are you ready for some interior shots? Just follow the link: Kia KEE interior!

Our second part of image gallery enables you to look at some details inside of Kia Coupe Sport concept car!

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Kia Motors has been appointed an ‘Official Supplier’ to the Slovakian Ministry of the
Interior and awarded a contract to supply locally-manufactured Kia cee’d vehicles to the country’s police forces until 2010.

To mark this significant fleet order, Kia is displaying the first cee’d Police patrol car, complete with overall white and green-stripes livery and roof-top lights pod, at Frankfurt.

The first batch of 350 cee’d police patrol cars are scheduled for delivery by year-end. Over the next three years, up to 4,000 Kia vehicles could be ordered as part of the Interior Ministry’s re-equipment programme.

Kia Kee Sports Coupe makes worldwide premiere today!

Many say that the world premiere of the all-new Kia Kee sports coupe concept at the Frankfurt International Motor Show in Germany this week is a landmark moment for Kia’s evolution into a major global automotive company.

The Kee concept vehicle is a 4,3 metre long 2-door coupe with svelte, newly proportioned lines resulting from a slightly lengthened greenhouse. It is a new interpretation of a 2+2 coupe with an imposing road presence that demonstrates an uncluttered, pure and timeless execution and represents a new design ethos for Kia.

The concept car features broad stance and a low profile, with three unique exterior elements – the strong and powerful frontal design with its distinctive headlamps and eye-catching LED cluster, a dynamic profile with striking greenhouse treatment and 20-inch diameter alloy wheels. Measuring 4,324 mm long, the Kia Kee is powered by a next generation 2-litre, V-6 gasoline engine producing 200 ps, mated to a six-speed automatic transmission.

“The new Kia Kee is a clear and emphatic statement that the future of the Kia brand is set to be one that will excite and surprise an entirely new audience of consumers,” commented Peter Schreyer, Chief Design Officer Kia Motors.

“In making this design departure for Kia it was essential to my thinking that we did not lose sight of the fact that the Kia brand must continue to appeal to customers in the mainstream. It would have been easy to present an extreme supercar at Frankfurt that would attract plenty of attention, but could have no place in Kia’s future. Our sports coupe concept is not simply a flight of fancy but represents an affordable dream for sports car lovers.” [Source: Kia]

Kia mulls alliance with Germany’s Karmann!

Acording to Reuters, South Korea’s Kia Motors Corporation is considering working together with German automotive supplier Karmann on a convertible car, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.

“We are talking with Karmann about a cooperation,” the paper quoted Kia design head Peter Schreyer as saying in a preview of it’s Tuesday edition.

Karmann is already working on the roof construction for the convertible, which would be based on the sports model of the Kia middle-class Cee’d car, the paper said.

[Source: Reuters]

Now this is the news Kia enthusiasts were waiting for! After seeing a beautifull Kia Ex_cee’d concept car last year, we were praying for it to come into production!

After a very positive public reception at 2006 Paris Auto Show, we published a report about Kia canceling Ex_cee’d developement because of the high developement costs! The report was confirmed at that time.

But now, more than eight months later, rumors are spreading that Kia officials finnally changed their minds and gave the Ex_cee’d a green light!

Car manufacturer Kia Motors is launching a brand awareness on Microsoft’s automotive portal MSN Car Channel.

The pan-European digital campaign launches on Thursday to promote Kia as the exclusive online sponsor for the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show.

The one month campaign will appear on MSN’s Car Channel in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

The deal includes display ads sized 728×90 and 300×250 with an integrated sponsorship logo, as well as video and photo ads.

Kia has been working with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions for the past eight months on strategic communications.

Kia Motors Europe general manager of marketing and PR Panu Vainamo said: “We have advertised across the MSN network since 2006 and with our online sponsorship of the Frankfurt Motor show being a key focus for our communications strategy this year, we chose to work with Microsoft’s multinational team to leverage this to ensure our online campaigns are truly integrated and, most importantly, meet the needs of a key, engaged online audience in Europe.”

Kia also became the official partner of the FIFA Women’s World Cup China 2007 last week following on from its title as FIFA’s official automobile sponsor.

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NEW: Follow the link to see some astonishing concept cars at this years Frankfurt Motor Show!

We will concentrate on Kia debuts at 2007 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show, but that doesn’t mean we are not going to report at least of some happening at Frankfurt. You already had a chance to look at some of the upcoming concept and production cars at our Frankfurt image gallery. We update it regularly!

Today, we can show you a video of something blue, enviormental friendly and made by Kia’s sister company Hyundai. This is an i-Blue hydrogen concept car that Kia-world blog reported about a few days ago. Enjoy!

Under the slogan “A World to Move Together,’’ the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group has been staging various Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in recent years to become a global leader respected both at home and abroad.

Not only Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors but also other affiliates of the group including the auto parts firm Hyundai Mobis have been engaging in various activities ranging from community chest drives to relief measures in foreign countries. (more…)

This year’s IAA will see the world debut of the production ready Pro_cee’d – the three-door incarnation of the Cee’d family. It will also see the unveiling of the first Peter Schreyer vision for the look of future Kia product, the Sports Coupe Concept, Kee.

Interested in Kia at 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show?

Stay connected to Kia-world blog, as we will be the first one to report about the new Kia concept car and other Kia activities at IAA 2007. 

Kia Motors Corp., South Korea’s second-largest automaker, said Monday it aims to sell 19 per cent more vehicles in 2007 in Europe than in 2006, driven by higher demand for its hatchback model C’eed.

Kia has set its 2007 sales target in Europe at 391,000 vehicles, compared with 328,584 sold in 2006, the company said ahead of an international auto show in Frankfurt this week.

Early this year, Kia began selling the five-door C’eed hatchback in Europe and sold about 80,000 units by the end of August, the company said.

Buoyed by the high demand, Kia raised its 2008 sales target of C’eed car in Europe to 200,000 units from the previous target of 150,000 units, according to the company.

Also on Monday, Kia completed building an 11-story European headquarters here, as the automaker is aiming at capturing 2.7 percent of the automobile market in Europe by 2010.

We have decided to report about most interesting concept and production  cars at 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show!  Follow the link to see the gallery! 

Link: 2007 IAA FRANKFURT MOTOR SHOW IMAGE GALLERY! Updated daily!

If you are interested in Kia reviews, this is the best web site to get them at one place! We have added a Reviews & test drive reports page to Kia-world blog recently.

Right now, we have a Cee’d, Rondo and Optima sections but we are planning to gradually expand reviews offering to all models in Kia lineup!

You can help us expand the number of revievs. Feel free to suggest any Kia test drive you find on the web!

Kia Motors announced today that it will be an Official Partner of the FIFA Women’s World Cup China 2007 as part of its status as FIFA Partner and official automobile of FIFA (in conjunction with its sister company Hyundai Motor). Kia is supplying official vehicles from its wide-ranging model line-up to the Women’s World Cup Organizing Committee and seeks to boost its brand recognition through commercial displays at the event venues and A-board advertisements in the stadiums.

The Women’s World Cup China 2007 is scheduled to kick off on September 10th with the champion to be crowned on September 30th. The matches will take place throughout China in the cities of Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin and Wuhan. The event marks Kia’s second sponsorship of a FIFA championship on the heels of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Korea that runs through September 9th.

Building on its current partnership with FIFA, Kia Motors has also committed itself to supporting the development of Chinese football as a whole by serving as an official partner of the Chinese Football Association until 2010. Kia will comprehensively support all levels of men’s and women’s football including the China National Teams, National Olympic Teams and Youth National Football Teams.

Yong-Hwan Kim, Senior Executive Vice President & COO of Kia Motors, said, “Kia Motors views the active participation in football marketing as an integral part of our vision to become a formidable player on the global automotive stage. In line our young and energetic brand identity we have made a strategic effort to ramp up our presence in major sports sponsorships to boost Kia’s brand awareness worldwide.

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The Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group, Korea’s largest automobile manufacturer, announced today that it has donated 200,000 EUR to support relief efforts for victims of the catastrophic fires that raged across Greece from late August to early September.

The funds were donated at a ceremony held on September 4th, at the Greece Ministry of Economy and Finance. The donation was handed over to George Alogoskoufis, Greek Minister of Economy and Finance, by Hank Lee, Kia Motors Europe President.

Speaking from Seoul, Korea, Yong-Hwan Kim, Senior Executive Vice President and COO of Kia Motors, said, “All of our employees, executives and partners around the world share in the grief and suffering of the victims, especially those who have lost their loved ones in this horrific tragedy. It is our sincere hope that our assistance will play a small part in helping Greece on its road to recovery.”

In the past, Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group has been an active participant in providing emergency assistance to various disaster relief efforts around the world in the form of funds, ambulances, relief goods and other aid.

The Group donated $200,000 to the Philippine government following the devastating landslide in February of this year; and also donated US$534,000 to India and US$150,000 each to the authorities in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka following the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia in December 2004. It also provided US$370,000 worth of free vehicle repairs and parts supply to the affected nations, while 5,000 local Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group employees and dealers joined in the relief effort.

Other recent disaster relief donations include US$100,000 to support relief efforts for victims of the catastrophic earthquake that hit Indonesia in May 2006, while the Group also provided support for victims of the Iran and Algeria earthquakes in 2003 as well as the Pakistan earthquake in 2005.