Comments on: Image review of 7 differently customized Kia Souls at Paris Auto Show

By: PhilP10

PhilP10 — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:34:53 +0000

I love these.. its hard to choose a favorite. I like the Vanilla Soul, Black Soul, and Java brown Soul the most.

By: Ksport(Boris)

Ksport(Boris) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:58:55 +0000

Then the rio wasnt drifting I guess. its was making fast turns on an icy road and swinging out its tail.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:53:37 +0000

no i havent but technically its not drifting unless somehow they found a donor RWD vehicle and did a conversion like the Formula Drift scion… tail draggin with the handbrake or with trays on the rear tires isnt drifting… just making sure thats understood~

By: Ksport(Boris)

Ksport(Boris) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:07:34 +0000

pat, have you seen the rio drifting vids on youtube and facebook? but i wouldnt drift soul cuz its taller and probably has a higher centre of gravity. I would really appretiate AWD.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:53:10 +0000

i get the point about the weather, but wats with the drifting and sliding in to turns thing???? drifting is strictly done with a rwd car… rallycross is mostly done with awd, but you wouldnt do that in a car with such a tiny motor… anyways, my favorite is the black one… gotta love the simplicity of black and white!!!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:28:51 +0000

AWD isn’t necessary, IMO. If you like to slip and slide in to turns and do a lot of drifting, then that’s different. OR if you live in difficult weather conditions, then AWD can be nice. I still love the one in Tomato Red, I might change the wheels to a fancier type, though. Love that red, though!

By: JTZ

JTZ — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:22:09 +0000

I like that black one with the white on there. I’ll take the Soul over that rip off Scion XD any day even if it doesn’t have AWD.

By: himi

himi — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:16:18 +0000

I was told that h-grille will be optional and I strongly believe that to be the truth. We have seen many images with the grille missing so there must be something on this. Also note that these Souls you see above are the top of the range cars with most of the accessories included and the grille is among them.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:06:46 +0000

it almost seems that the schreyer grille is standard in some form. Who confirmed that it isn’t standard?

By: himi

himi — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:40:53 +0000

Don’t know Boris. Perhaps someone could photoshop the image.
I have always liked sporty cars with white alloy-wheels so I’m really happy to see white ones. Nobody actually mentioned they will be available on Soul.

By: Ksport(Boris)

Ksport(Boris) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:20 +0000

I wonder if the 7 spoke wheels on the vanilla shake look good on the black burner.

By: himi

himi — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:53:06 +0000

I’d go with the black Soul and white strip on it’s bonnet. All of them looks very good, but I wonder why Kia excluded to show a Latte green and orange Soul. Those two would also have a lot of attention at the show.

By: Ksport(Boris)

Ksport(Boris) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:35:42 +0000

I’ll take the burner as my favorite.