Comments on: First images of Kia Forte interior

By: K-Sport (Boris)

K-Sport (Boris) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:11:49 +0000

—–why do you think these are still concepts?—–
this isnt a concept and I dont know who said this is a concept. this is the production version and will start selling in Korea in august.

By: JoshyLofty

JoshyLofty — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:01:41 +0000

why do you think these are still concepts? they look production ready to me! and not far off from whats in vehicles suck as mazda & so on… so whats the deal there???

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:39:18 +0000

I’m here, just not posting. I am very busy. CONSTANTLY building computers and selling cars, and maintaining my websites, and sleeping, and eating, and I don’t even know what I am going to do when school starts again. So far, I am loving new Spe……Forte.

By: K-Sport (Boris)

K-Sport (Boris) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:19:09 +0000

hmm. havent seen greg in a while…

By: K-Sport (Boris)

K-Sport (Boris) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:45:19 +0000

BTW, the steering wheel in the forte resembles that of the soul and cee’d plus. we might be seeing more of these steerings in Kia’s smaller cars.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:44:28 +0000

Sedona Man: I think the top and 3rd picture (unless you mean the dash picture as “top”) are of the same vehicle. The text and hazard triangle you seen on them are on the protective plastic film that is over the radio display, it’s removed during the PDI process. The screen looks to be the same size in all the pictures, and I’d guess it to be the size of an old cassette tape. I think if it got navigation it’d have a larger screen. All 3 of the new set of pictures appear to have the same radio set up (display and buttons), it’s the HVAC (climate control) controls that are different- the 1st and 3rd are probably the same vehicle (both show auto climate control), the 2nd being a different one (manual climate control). And the 4th picture (being 2 pictures in one image) is from one of the test mules. Also, in the 2nd picture, the only PDI plastic I see is on what is either the foot rest or brake pedal (bottom left corner, it’s white with a diagonal blue line, and a series of two black horizontal lines in vertical columns- the white and blue is the plastic, the black is the rubber pieces that help give your foot traction to stay in place). You can see the gas/ accelerator pedal in the top picture: it probably doesn’t have the PDI plastic on it, and it’s one horizontal line in a vertical column.

By: K-Sport (Boris)

K-Sport (Boris) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:19:46 +0000

It should have nav,

By: JTZ (Jamayl)

JTZ (Jamayl) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:39:23 +0000

I like the screen that looks like a navagation. Speaking of navagation, now the Spectra 5 is deleted right, will if that was replaced by the Soul and the Spectra 5 was above the sedan, then will the Soul have nav then? Just a thought.

By: K-Sport (Boris)

K-Sport (Boris) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:00:15 +0000

wher’d u get these pix himi.

By: K-Sport (Boris)

K-Sport (Boris) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:27:05 +0000

very much could be.

By: Sedona Man

Sedona Man — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:24:46 +0000

Is that a nav screen in the top photo?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:18:05 +0000

I might start saving some money. This car looks great on the outside and the inside. And I would be purchasing one with a manual (read: equipped with a human foot operated clutch) transmission, but finally getting the “Sportmatic” transmission is a great upgrade. This also shows automatic climate control, which will be a nice upgrade. The only difference I see in the older pics (the bottom two) and the top set is the color of the radio face, being black on greenish yellow in the old and white on orange in the new. The gearshift knob in the old set looks like it could be the same as the one in the new set. My guess would be if this were a US production model it’d be the EX, the LX hasn’t had automatic climate control in any US vehicle.

By: K-Sport (Boris)

K-Sport (Boris) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:54:59 +0000

Alright! At last! So here we go. LCD screen. Manumatic tranny. barrel type gauges. USB and AUX jacks. really beutiful!