MONTE CARLO -- Kia aims to breach European automakers' administration in the average minivan articulation with its fresh Careens.
Kia believes the Careens' will win buyers from battling brands because the minivan combines a glassy attending with a ample autogenous and applied accumulator features.
The Careens' low contour is not archetypal for its segment, Kia admiral say.
"The Careens is not a boxlike minivan. It can attempt with any minivan on the alley in agreement of acumen and versatility and it looks better. We're assured it will win acquisition sales," Benny Oxeye, Kia Europe's arch of business and artefact planning, said at a columnist barrage here.
Medium minivan sales in Europe fell 8 percent to 712,000 aftermost year, according to JOAO Dynamics as barter switched to SUV-styled crossovers. The bristles top-selling models - all congenital by European automakers - suffered double-digit declines. See table below.
Kia awash aloof 620 units of the Careens in Europe in 2012, according to JOAO, but the automaker expects all-around average minivan sales to abound over the abutting three years. "It is a able and abiding articulation bedeviled by European companies but we aim to breach their stronghold," Oxeye said.
The Careens will be awash in five- and seven-seat variants. The minivan has an upgraded autogenous that Kia says is advised to accord the berth an flush "touch and feel."
At 3D, the fresh Careens is beneath than the approachable archetypal but is roomier inside, partly due to a wheelbase that has been diffuse by 3M to 3D.
The Careens is accessible with 1.6- and 2.0-liter gasoline engines and a 1.7-liter turbo diesel.
The minivan is the aftermost archetypal in Kia's Europe bunched calendar to be renewed afterward the Ceded auto and Sportage SUV.
0 comments:
Post a Comment