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Kia Reveals All-New Rio Ahead of Paris Motor Show Premiere

September 1, 2016 – The all-new, fourth-generation Kia Rio will make its world premiere on 29 September in Paris, at the 2016 Mondial de l’Automobile. With a progressive new exterior and interior design, the Rio is revealed for the first time globally today through an exclusive set of images.

 

Design of the new Rio was led by Kia’s design centers in Germany and California, in close collaboration with the company’s global design headquarters in Namyang, Korea. The appearance of the new Rio is defined by straight lines and smooth surfacing, giving the car a distinctive, confident new look.

 

Progressive exterior design

At the front, the Rio wears the latest evolution of Kia’s ‘tiger-nose’ grille, now thinner in height and wider across the front of the car. Integrated bi-function projection headlamps – again, thinner and more sculpted than those of its predecessor – project a new U-shaped LED light signature. Changes to the front of the car, including moving the fog lamps’ position outwards within the front bumper, are designed to add greater visual width for a more stable overall look. The new Rio grows by 5 mm in width (to 1,725 mm), further adding to this effect.

 

In profile, the fourth-generation Rio’s lengthened, more balanced stance is achieved with a long bonnet and longer front overhang, a 10 mm longer wheelbase (up to 2,580 mm), a thinner, more upright C-pillar, and a shorter rear overhang. Overall, the new car is 15 mm longer than its predecessor (now 4,065 mm long), and 5 mm shorter in height (to 1,450 mm). Straight, clearly-defined lines run down the full length of the car’s shoulder and along its doors, further stretching the appearance of the car for a more stable, confident look.

 

The rear section of the Rio is now more upright, with a near-vertical rear windscreen and a shorter overhang. The straight line that runs from the grille, through the headlamps and along the top of the doors, continues around the back of the car, paired with thinner, more sculpted rear lamps, which now feature a new arrow-shaped LED light signature. Like the wider-looking ‘face’ of the car, the rear design of the new Rio gives it a stronger overall appearance.

 

Modern, driver-oriented cabin

The new Kia Rio will offer motorists a modern new cabin design, featuring sculptural forms and a more ergonomic layout than its predecessor.

 

Like the exterior, straight lines running the width of the dashboard characterize the shape of the interior, giving the cabin a wider appearance and increasing the sense of space for occupants.

 

The dashboard itself is now angled towards the driver, and at its center is a new infotainment system, a ‘floating’ HMI (human-machine interface), with a high-resolution touchscreen to power the Rio’s audio, navigation and new connectivity systems. The new HMI has allowed Kia to reduce the number of buttons on the center console.

 

The new Rio is available with a choice of black or grey cloth seat upholstery, or with black or grey artificial leather. A ‘Red Pack’ for the Rio gives buyers black with red artificial leather-trimmed seats throughout the cabin. The cabin itself features gloss black and metallic trim throughout, for a more modern finish.

 

Production starts at the end of 2016

The all-new Rio will offer buyers class-leading practicality and safety technology, the latest connectivity features, and more assured and engaging ride and handling characteristics.

 

The Kia Rio is the Korean manufacturer’s global best-selling model, with more than 473,000 sold around the world in 2015. The next generation will enter production towards the end of 2016 for Europe, with production timings for other regions to be announced closer to launch.

 

Kia’s 2016 Mondial de l’Automobile press conference will start at 14:45 CET on 29 September. Kia’s stand will be located in Hall 3 of the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.

 

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Topic Spy: Kia Rio 2017 (Spy)

Enorme passo avanti rispetto alla precedente e, imho, anche rispetto alla i20 dalla quale deriva.

 

io trovo che sia terribile! Un passo indietro allucinante. Linee anni 90, frontale bidimensionale, molto triste. Ecco penso che con questa generazione di utilitarie Hyundai e kia siano tornati agli inizi 2000 , ovviamente non come contenuti e finiture, ma come scialbezza e anonimitá (se si dice cosi ;)). Se la i20 la comprerei ancora, se sembra più sfiziosetta, questa proprio non la guarderei manco. Che peccato per kia

Vorrei vederla in altre foto, per ora non mi dispiace ma nemmeno mi fa impazzire, avrei preferito qualcosa di piu originale. Dentro sembra ben fatta.

la faincata è troppo banale imho

Al momento non mi entusiasma. Come per i20 nella vista laterale il muso risulta molto verticale (nuove norme urto pedone!?)

 

Internamente invece trovo brutta l'integrazione del sistema multimediale, o lo fai inegrato nella console o lo fai sospeso ma la scleta utilizzata non mi piace, in pratica è una via di mezzo, metà integrato e metà sospeso.

Modificato 1 Settembre 20169 anni fa da MotorPassion

linea ben fatta, ma poco originale (meno della precedente). Mi sembra un'ottima alternativa alla classica polo VW.

A me non sembra cosi' male. Da vedere in foto piu' realistiche.

Molto più simile alla sorella i20 come proporzioni generali rispetto al modello che va a sostituire!

Non mi sembra malaccio, secondo il mio gusto preferisco il montante C di questa rispetto la sorella Hyundai....

 

Auto senza slanci, ma è un seg. B, Tolte Punto e Ypsilon il resto non brilla per eleganza e  originalità... (IMHO)

 

Modificato 1 Settembre 20169 anni fa da nubironaSW

Sono rassegnato. Ogni nuovo modello che esce (di qualsiasi segmento) rimpiango sempre più il precedente a livello di design.

Vista lateralmente, sembra una di quelle macchinine che disegnavo da bambino.....

 

Siamo proprio sicuri che tutti chiedono elettrodomestici multimediali?