Comments on: Kia Soulster concept receives a 2009 Concept truck of the year award

By: SHARON

SHARON — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:35:50 +0000

This is great, my husband loves his Rio and has been waiting for KIA to make a truck

By: bonnie

bonnie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:21:11 +0000

like this vehicle a lot — was hoping that a small truck would come out when toyota made it’s tonkatoy type truck i thought it would be great if they made a mini version of it — so this is the next best thing.

By: Greg da chajee

Greg da chajee — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:10:12 +0000

The average person does not care about the engine, looks and fuel mileage..as long as it moves and its pretty or cool..ooohh shiny!!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:03:25 +0000

Excellent MT review-thanks for putting it in there.

By: HyundaiSmoke

HyundaiSmoke — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:57:14 +0000

Oh Ok Bryan. Motor Trend almost had an Orgasam for this car by the way. The only complaints about this car is the form most auto journalists is the: “Crude 2.0 Engine.”
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“KIA has a potential Halo car on its hands with the SOUL, the fit and finish is excellent. Though, we have a problem with the crude engines available. Also, KIA could have been the leader in the pack if it had a 5 speed Auto available. We hope KIA heeds our suggestions with a refreshed future SOUL model, becuase in a sea of blandness the SOULs funky styling is a breath of fresh air. The KIA Soul should be enough to make Toyota very concerned about their Scion line, and with the changes we have suggested, this car will be the leader in the pack.”
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-MotorTrend

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:00:49 +0000

Busy with work and other websites. Forgive me in all confidence.

By: HyundaiSmoke

HyundaiSmoke — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:16:34 +0000

Theres many Soul reviews out there. Where have you been at?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:36:52 +0000

What evidence do we have that the new Kia Soulster would be the king of rally cars,,,yet? Do we know that much about it’s ability to hold corners, accelerate in to and through them, etc. Just asking.

By: HyundaiSmoke

HyundaiSmoke — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:43:22 +0000

I know that Bornloser, but in limited quantities this thing with AWD can be the king of rally cars. Of course AWD would be a limited quantity model anyway.
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The Platform is Current gen Rio, but the drivetrain is next Gen tech. Boris, If KIA was to put an Audi A3 AWD system in there it might work.

By: himi

himi — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:13:55 +0000

Glad to hear you’re ok JoshLofty!!
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Well, there are very encouraging news coming from Kia. It is very likely that Soulster is going to be built, thanks to awesome feedback that Kia received about it so far. We shall see soon!

By: Bornloser

Bornloser — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:09:08 +0000

Can’t really see why you would want AWD? It’s not really an off-road vehicle…

By: BJD (Boris)

BJD (Boris) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:10:18 +0000

the soul’s drivetrain isnt designed to handle AWD. its a modified Rio platform

By: HyundaiSmoke

HyundaiSmoke — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:47:18 +0000

AWD should be at least entertained as an Option Package, considering Hyundai/KIAs contract with Haldex. The Competing Suzuki SX4 B-segment crossover has AWD as an option. Why not the Soul? As a Matter of fact, I hate RWD and the Genesis should have had a AWD option as well.
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Then again, since the next gen Amanti will get AWD first they probably wont put it on the Soul, for a least right now.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:40:17 +0000

Yep, adding 4WD would up the cost ante too much I’m afraid. No 4WD and no AWD, oh, we’ll be all right. It looks outrageous, though, awesome even. Build it and add it to your ever-growing wonderful worldwide stable of vehicles, Kia!

By: jtz

jtz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:18:06 +0000

To Joshy First, I ‘m glad your ok. 2nd if it was for that accident, your mother would have never gotten a Sportage sometimes things happen for a reason

I’m guessing the production model is in the wind tunnel and we should see it on spy shots late 2009. it shouldn’t take that long since it’s based off the Soul and all just with a bed at the back. But to give this more spunk, I wish it could have 4WD though. But that would cost to much to build a platform to handle 4WD.