Kia Optima Review

the car industry is sprinting forwards and looking backwards, the Germans are really quiet concerned by the Japanese and the Japanese are fixated on the South Koreans looming like this in the rear-view mirror. Take one look at the new Kia Optima, And you can see the South Koreans i am just joking for the position any more.

Right pulled out to over take the optimal is in just Its one of the best looking South Korean cars on the market its the one of the sexiest mind stream cars on the sale In Australia. But the substance to make the style. You get a high tech, direct injection 2.4 liter four, with 148 kilowatts and 215 newton meters, plus a silky Smooth padel shifted six feet order.

The new optimus absolutely packed with advanced safety features. You get six air bags and electronic ability control and bunch of all the electronic safety features that you also get high intensity light imitating diode bi est piton running watches that make you more visible to other road users I mean it was just a year or so ago that hardly the Germans had that, yeah the dynamics package is excellent.

Forty five series tires offer great grip and the overall chassis tune is pretty good for Australia. The brakes are massive basically they're unkillable. The Optima's not a race car obviously, and you'll be disappointed if you drive it like one. But it's pretty satisfying to drive five up to about seven tenth, the steering feels very light initially but once you are climatise to the cavies a fibular feed back going on so it's a precise driving experience.

The cockpit is instantly comfortable. And everything that you look at as the driver is towards you. Even the instruments and the controls on the center stack are tilted back this way facing you, which is exactly how you want it if you're driving the car. There's heating and air conditioning for the driver's sake, plus eight power adjustments, so it's dead easy to get comfortable.

And it's not a If the passengers are neglected. If you are passenger the Optimar is spacious and civilized in fact its almost de civilized There's a lot of room back here. Realistically, this car is tailor-made for families, even families with big, strapping Teenage sons there is no danger what so ever of any one have the ride in the back with the knees up in their eyes.

There is lot of kia often for $37 grand. You get an iPod emulating 7 speaker sound system, bluetooth, a panoramic glass roof, all the safety and a trip computer and even a chilled glove box. Because, let's face it, nobody wants hot gloves. The Optima has one of the neatest reversing camera installations around.

Super conveniently integrated into the central rear-vision mirror and a dead set life saver potentially. parents with young kids. You get a 5 year, unlimited kilometer warranty in a market where the the overwhelming majority of competitors cap theirs at 3 years and 100,000 k's. Australians buy LG fridges and Samsung TV's by the truckload.

And the Kia Optima is exactly probably the same proposition. You can have one of these, comprehensively equipped, or you can buy a more expensive Japanese car with fewer features that it also doesn't look as good. If I was a Toyota Camry or a Honda Accord, I'd just face facts and move over into the slow lane.

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