Comments on: Mysterious Kia spy shots

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:33:46 +0000

The tires on this car are the same that are on the Kia future concept website. This is more than likely the Kia Koup that was unveiled at the 2008 New York Car Show.

By: gheyath

gheyath — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:34:57 +0000

YES ITS NEW SPECTRA AND FANTSTEK CAR

By: himi

himi — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:08:24 +0000

You’re right about it beeing a new Spectra. I heard Kia is developing this vehicle under the TD codename.

By: gheyath

gheyath — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:58:26 +0000

i thing its new spectra (cerato) and its sems nice car

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:59:10 +0000

I am now #34 in the US, my good friend is #7 in the Country

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:57:23 +0000

you sell the “sizzle” not the steak. You never sell the car itself. You sell the Value and benifits it gives the consumer. for example: just saying the car has ESC does nothing. most people have no clue what it does. The best thing to do is to tell a story for the major features of the car.

Now, it really comes down to the sales person selling his product and doing a great walk around on the car with mr or mrs customer. Some cars are easy liek the Sportage it has a great reputation for the new body style and most people if they heard of Kia have heard how great the Sportage is. Cars like the Optima, which fall a little short, take a lot more spice in my presentation to sell one. Here most people will pay the extra 30-50 dollars a month to drive a base model camry or altima than an Optima. Price only gets us so far.

I love Kia and have driven them for years but there is a lot of “better” products out there that make my job so much harder. ie; I used to work for FORD and Dodge

By: himi

himi — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:46:55 +0000

I don’t like to say this but it’s true Colby! How do the salesperson look at the competing car when you know it is better than the one you sell?

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:42:30 +0000

you are right. the new saturn looks amazing for its class. When saturn starts to sell that in the US it will leave the current spectra i the dust.

By: himi

himi — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:33:26 +0000

I think Saturn will start selling new compact hatchbacks based on Opel Astra soon in America. Do you know about that?
Astra is the best car in it’s class, together with Golf here in Europe and will represent a stiff competition to Korean and Japanese brands. The car is better than Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic which are both better cars than the current Spectra/Spectra5 in terms of driving, safety, power and fuel consumption rankings.

So Kia has to speed it up and bring this TD vehicle to US as soon as possible to compete with the newcomers.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:20:02 +0000

Yeah, Kia bring the cee’d and the pro’ceed to the U.S. market…it would sell nicely me thinks.

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:21:04 +0000

the grille looks liek the ceed’ grille with the two lines above and below the Kia emblem. the head lights look more aggersive than the ceed’ though. I hope it is a modified version of the ceed’ for the US market, if Kia was smart they would do that and also bring out the ceed’ hatchback and pro’ ceed for the US market as well to replace the current spectra and spectra5

By: himi

himi — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:30:22 +0000

The grille doesn’t seem to be H shaped…The car we see here is a Spectra successor and it’s development code name is TD.

By: JTZ

JTZ — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:31:07 +0000

Hmmm, the C pillars look similar to the KND-4. The grille is hard to tell, and I want let the cover fool me into thinking it looks like a Sonata. I can tell it doesn’t.

By: himi

himi — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:02:03 +0000

It does. Looks to be sportier end more edgy than Spectra. I hope Kia brings also a 5door to the market.

By: Jamayl (JTZ)

Jamayl (JTZ) — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:26:47 +0000

I can’t say for sure If I see Acura or not, but I’ll tell you one thing, It sure looks a LOT better than the 2009 Corolla.