Kia has unveiled a new logo as it enters a year of transformation with the Plan S long-term strategy.
The company has also changed its slogan to ‘Movement that inspires’. The Kia KY MPV arriving next year will be the first ‘new’ Kia car in India to feature the updated slogan and logo. It gets a minimalist design, resembling a handwritten signature with an unbroken line forming the lettering.
It was just last week that ElectricVehicleWeb revealed that the Kia compact MPV that is being developed is codenamed ‘Kia KY.’ The new Kia MPV (represented in the display image) would be launched in January 2022, as per an official Kia Motors document EVW accessed.
The Kia KY MPV would be a compact 7-seater. As with the Seltos and Sonet, it would adopt a global name for the MPV, and like the Carnival, an SUV-inspired design should be observed in the people mover.
The Kia KY MPV would ride on the same platform as the Kia Seltos (Kia SP2) and the second-gen Hyundai Creta (Hyundai SU2).
The new Kia MPV is likely to share powertrains with the Kia Seltos, which is available with a 1.5-litre N/A MPI petrol engine (115 PS/144 Nm), a 1.4-litre turbocharged GDI petrol engine (140 PS/242 Nm) and a 1.5-litre turbocharged CRDi diesel engine (115 PS/250 Nm).
The Kia KY at some stage in its lifecycle should also receive a fully-electric version.
The Kia KY MPV would slot below the third-gen Kia Carnival (Kia YP) and will be manufactured at the Anantapur factory. The company has set an annual sales target of 76,000 units for this model, 50,000 units of which would go to local customers.
The remaining units would be allocated to export markets, which would mostly, or only, be emerging markets.
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