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Giacuzzo is one of the first tuning companies that released a sporty kit for Kia’s highly succesfull Cee’d.

Added sportpackage gives Cee’d a clean and sporty look. It has now more road presence than ever. Giacuzzo kit lowers the car for 35mm, includes 225/35 R19 tires, front, rear spoiler and a set of side skirts. All the parts are painted to match the Cee’d exterior.

Those looking for more than just styling upgrades, Giacuzzo tuned the engine too! Thanks to the chip tuning Cee’d customers benefit from a 136 HP oilburner cranking out 290 Nm of torque. That’s 21 HP and 35 Nm of torque more than Kia’s serial 1,6 litre diesel engine.

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First sales statistics reveal that Kia has a winner on its hands. The company received thousands of orders for the all-new cee’d hatchback since its launch. At the moment, Slovakian factory does not work at full capacity, but production will gradually expand during the coming months.

When fully operational, Kia’s first Euroean factory will be capable of producing as much as 300.000 new vehicles. Majority of the vehicles will belong to cee’d family, but the plant was designed to build at least two other models. It is very likely that Kia will move the production of Sportage SUV from Korea sometime by the end of 2009.

Back to Kia cee’d. The all-new cee’d features dynamic exterior design, which is attractive to European consumer’s tastes. Those looking forsportier versions of the cee’d will have to wait until Kia brings a hotter, 200-hp cee’d to the market. If you can’t wait for it, you can buy a sporty kit and fit it to the cee’d right now.

Incus XR body kit is available in most European countries and can be fited to the vehicle. The XR kit from INCUS includes a redesigned front bumper with more agressive air intake, as well as updated sporty grille. At rear, there’s an updated bumper with integrated tail-pipes (looks really attractive and sounds nice as well), while side of the car also features the “skirts”.

The cee’d XR also features redesigned alloy-wheels and XR badging in the grille!

Here are some images of the XR body kit, built by INCUS: