Kia Soul US-Spec
Here we have the first official images of the 2010 US-spec Kia Soul model. The Soul urban crossover will make it’s official US premiere at the upcoming Los Angeles Auto Show.
Engineered to accommodate an array of diesel and gasoline engines, the US-spec Soul model will only be available with a potent 2,0L in-line four engine. Developing 142 horsepower, the engine should provide plenty of punch, while still delivering a respectable gas mileage. When going on sale in US, the Soul will be available with either a five-speed manual or four-speed automatic transmissions.
Out of 136,000 Souls that Kia intends to produce annually at it’s Gwangju manufacturing facility in South Korea, 50,000 units will be shipped to the North American market. The Soul is expected to reach US market early next year with sales commencing in April 2009.
Below, you can see exclusive US-specs Soul pictures. In addition, I have enclosed a Canadian Soul accessory brochure, that first appeared at Canadian National Kia dealer meeting a few months ago. As you know, Soul crossover will be available with a range of exterior customizations. Many of them you can see here and possibly several others will not only reach Canadian, but US market as well.
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November 7th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
That color SHOULD be the most popular. I love it!
November 7th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I like that pic in which its in the dust. ANd it looks a bit more boxier in that pic…
November 7th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Looks good on all pictures. The one I like the most is the one with blue sky.
November 8th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Boris i noticed it looked boxy in the pics as well. not a bad thing, just never seen it look as such. can’t wait to get my hands on this little sucker.
November 8th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
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November 10th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Wonder if the EPA MPG tests have been recorded yet. Because you’re probably not going to be buying this based on the looks, but on the extra space and less gas.
November 11th, 2008 at 3:27 am
one review said that it gets approx. 31 MPG. not very competitive actually but fine for me. And I’m sure people will buy it for Design AND space, [besides price and warranty]. It looks great!
November 12th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Boris , what engine of the soul make 31Mpg ???????
November 12th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
It’s the 2,0 gasoline wih 142hp.
November 13th, 2008 at 2:16 am
Why on this site don’t we talk in the internationally recognized language for power, torque and fuel usage. Which is Kilowatts for power, Newton Metres for torque and Litres per 100 Kilometres for fuel usage.
Are we using horsepower and miles per gallon to suit the many US friends we have on this site, because we talk about engine size Cubic Centimetres, eg 2000cc or a 2 litre motor and not as 122 cubic inches. I know in certain counties they use PS for power but most of the rest of the world use a Metric dimension.
Notice I even spell ‘Metre’ as a metre, like most of the world except the US, where it is spelt ‘Meter’, which is a measuring device, not a “measurement”. Even the US gallon is smaller than the English or Imperial gallon, so depending where a car is tested there will always be some discrepancy in the MPG figures. That’s where Litres/100Kms is the same the world over, or even Kilomtres/Litre if you like.
So just for matter of interest, as a survey, what part of the world do you come from and what is your usual method of measurement, don’t worry about the spelling because your preferred language might not necessarily be English.
Sorry again Himi for getting off the subject again.
November 13th, 2008 at 3:34 am
its probably cuz the reviewers are usualy from US and they say MPG and hp…
November 13th, 2008 at 6:07 am
What’s the norm in Dubai Boris as a matter of interest.
November 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Not sure. Not many reviews mention fuel consumption here cuz no one really cares. L/100km is what one site used…
November 13th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
kW, Nm@rpm and l/100Kms are fine for me (Belgium-Europe) as are kph (or Kms/h) and 0-100 km/h in “x” seconds…
Here you have a good converter…
http://www.autoscoops.eu/tools/converter
November 13th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
On the other hand I’m also acquainted with speed in Mach, distance in Nautical miles and height in Flight levels (and Jet-A1 fuel in Kgs)
November 13th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
The USA has considered going metric, but it would be too confusing. I can’t stand the metric system, I have no use for it. I am from the USA, so I have that bias.
November 14th, 2008 at 2:22 am
I beg to differ there Greg, but I see where you’re coming from. We used to have the same system as the US here in Australia, which is a British system of measurement. It took a while for all of us Aussies to get used to metric, now it’s a bit of a mixture. But what could be more confusing with the measurement of distance for instance of yards, feet and inches. ie: 12 inches= 1 foot, 3 feet = 1 yard, 1760 yards = 1 mile, 5280 feet = 1mile and 63360 inches to a mile, and that’s only a start. Let alone the rest of it, 16 ounces = 1 pound. Pint, quarts and gallons, it’s endless.
Now metric is all multiples of 10, 100 or a 1000, but I won’t go into it because you’re not really interested and you don’t have to be, unless of course you become a doctor or a scientist or a chemist, where it’s all grams, milligrams, litres, millilitres and millimetres etc, even in the US.
That’s the end on that subject, let’s get back to talking about Kia’s.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Ha-ha, OzyTone, you’re right, I work in the medical field and it is all measured in multiples of 10, 100, 1000 milligrams, etc. It can take a bit of getting used to, indeed. Jolly-good day!
November 14th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Good on you Bryan, I’m glad I’ve got someone with me on this. I know I wasn’t going to say too much more about this subject, but it’s funny that here in Oz, even the kids will say there height in feet and inches and their weight in kilograms. Distance on the highway is usually in kilometres, like the next town is so many k’s down the road. So we are a bit of a mixture with some things, but petrol, milk, and even your beer is in litres and millilitres….no problem.
Thing that alerted me to the metric system having some substance and rationalization, was when speaking to a German friend of mine just before we went metric, he said, “1 cubic metre of fresh water weighs exactly 1 tonne or 1000 kilograms”. So there’s an immediate relationship between volume (length, width and height) and a weight of a basic substance such as water. Not the British/US measurement of 1 gallon of water weighs 62.5 pounds??…or was that a cubic foot, I can’t remember. All I do remember was when at school you had to know all this stuff, useless as it may be, and the back of our 1 of our school books was covered all these facts on lengths, weights and volumes. I don’t know about the US, but it was here.
November 15th, 2008 at 5:19 am
3rd through 6th grade math books all had one chapter covering basic metric. There are elective classes I could take that involve learning in-depth metric, but I am not signed up for any of those electives. My electives for 9th grade are Computer Aided drafting, power mechanics, auto shop for the consumer, and entrepreneurship.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hi Greg, good going buddy. Just for a matter of interest what CAD system does your school have??
Now that’s my forte, that’s my expertise, CAD/CAM, both Computer Aided Draughting and Computer Aided Manufacture or Machining in my case. Most schools, I guess have Autocad as a starter system, which is good for 2D draughting.
November 15th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Greg and OzyTone, I used to be a Technical Illustrator-Engineering for The Boeing Company in Everett, WA. It was similar to drafting, we’d draw up different tubing and wiring and attach points and structure for Boeing’s 747, 767 and 777 jetliners. Great job to have, challenging and rewarding. But in the mid 1990’s management had some trouble convincing us to dive in and learn computer-aided drawing. We had drawn in ink on mylar for so long. I didn’t mind learning CAD, because, for one thing, erasing structure, tubing, and wiring went so much faster on the computer, it isn’t even funny! We used a system developed by Boeing called BOGART, an acronym for Boeing Graphic Arts. It was a combination of scanned-in raster and we’d then use CAD vector for adding new lines in. Later we dabbled in CATIA. We didn’t develop CATIA models(the different system engineers did) but we did download them in to our drawing frame and manipulate them to the orientation we needed them to be in. We would then make all the callouts active and move them where we needed to fit them in. There were plenty of opportunites to be creative, though. I was laid off in 2003 from that job and then implemented The Trade Act to get re-training in the medical field. 40,000+ of us were laid off from Boeing in that layoff in 2002-2003! I’m now a Respiratory Therapist in SE Arizona and enjoying a sunny climate, and helping scads of Arizonans get better from respiratory ailments and just try and cope with things like asthma and COPD. It is more rewarding than drawing airplane wiring and tubing…but if Mr.Boeing would’ve had me I would’ve gladly stayed until I was in my 60’s and retired from there. Just twasn’t to be, gentlemen. I like my job and area to live in now better, though.
November 15th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I don’t blame you. I would’ve moved to Arizona, too. The CAD program is AutoCAD 2002 LT. I have really gotten the hang of it. I have a steady 99% in that class.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Good going, Greg. No need to tell you to keep it up, sounds like you’ve got it in that subject. That’s a worthwhile area to keep studying in, I can say that from experience.
November 16th, 2008 at 3:48 am
Doe anyone have a date when they will be sold at U.S. dealerships? I am do up for a vehicle and so much want a a soul, should I put ever last once into my existing and it will be out by July
November 16th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
My understanding is that the Soul will appear at dealerships in America in March. Obviously that might depend on where in the country you are. Maybe April for some areas.
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
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