2017 Kia Optima Sportswagon

2017 Kia Optima Sportswagon

2017 Kia Optima Sportswagon The all-new Kia Optima Sportswagon, Kia's first ever D-phase tourer, makes its worldwide most reliable at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show (86th Salon International de l'Automobile).

Inspired via the 2015 Kia SportSpace Concept - proven for the first time on the 2015 Geneva Motor Show - the Optima Sportswagon gives the hanging exterior layout and excessive nice interior of the 2016 Optima saloon, with the introduced practicality and enchantment of a tourer bodystyle.

Michael Cole, Chief Operating Officer, Kia Motors Europe, commented: "The Optima has come to outline Kia globally, and is credited with kick-starting the emblem's design-led transformation. The SportSpace idea from 2015 turned into a clean aim of where we wanted to take the Optima subsequent, and the Sportswagon provides an additional stage of style and practicality to the well-received saloon."

Cole introduced: "This is an important product for Kia in Europe, and it'll boom our presence in this extremely vital phase. In Europe, two thirds of all sales inside the D-segment, and three quarters of all fleet income in this elegance, are made from tourers, so the Optima Sportswagon will play a critical function in attracting new personal and corporate customers to the logo. This is an critical conquest product for Kia."

The Optima Sportswagon may be available with a preference of green and responsive petrol and diesel powertrains, including a high-powered GT model. The Optima Sportswagon is prepared with quite a number progressive safety assistance and infotainment functions, making sure most occupant protection, comfort and leisure.

The Kia Optima Sportswagon is because of cross on sale across Europe in Q4 2016.

The all-new Kia Optima Sportswagon: Kia's first-ever D-phase tourer

Inspired with the aid of the Kia SportSpace idea proven on the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, the Optima Sportswagon is Kia's first foray into the competitive D-phase tourer phase. A very well sensible automobile for regular use, the Optima Sportswagon will also be a number of the maximum fashionable cars in its class, with an extended, lean and dynamic profile. The Sportswagon retains the identical width (1,860 mm) and length (four,855 mm) as the saloon, and grows by 5 mm in height (to at least one,470 mm) to house the multiplied boot.

The new Optima Sportswagon capabilities the equal sharp strains and clean bodywork that has come to outline the contemporary Kia fashions. While the the front of the auto remains similar to the Optima saloon, its sturdy, rising shoulder and gently sloping, swept-again cabin keep for longer to provide its one of a kind tourer body form.

The overhang at the rear adds more visual volume to the lower back of the automobile, though this extra mass is disguised elegantly via the raked rear window and tapering roofline, giving the Sportswagon a honestly athletic stance in a typically conservative section.

At the rear of the automobile, wide LED taillights wrap around the corners of the bodywork. The rear bumper homes a unmarried oval exhaust and capabilities an integrated air diffuser, for a sporty end.

The Optima Sportswagon might be available in Europe in a desire of nine paint hues, and will experience on alloy wheels ranging from 16- to 18-inches in diameter.

Choice of petrol and diesel electricity with manual or computerized transmissions

The front-wheel drive Optima Sportswagon might be to be had with a variety of Euro 6-compliant petrol and diesel engines while it is going on sale throughout Europe. The Optima Sportswagon gives the choice of both a 1.7-litre CRDi diesel or 2.Zero-litre CVVL petrol engine, even as GT models are geared up with Kia's new excessive-powered 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol direct injection engine.

Upgraded for its software inside the Optima saloon and carried over unchanged inside the Sportswagon, the 1.7-litre CRDi diesel engine will account for the majority of European sales. The engine benefits from a sequence of modifications, ensuing in more strength output and torque, and reduced emissions. Producing 141 playstation  and340 Nm torque, the upgraded 1.7-litre diesel engine will offer low CO2 emissions and high economic system, pending very last homologation later in 2016.

The 1.7-litre CRDi engine is available with a six-speed manual transmission or Kia's new seven-pace double-snatch transmission, capable of dealing with the higher torque outputs of the turbodiesel engine and engineered to offer a sportier using experience with easy and on the spot tools modifications.

The Kia Optima Sportswagon is also available with a 2.0-litre CVVL petrol engine, presenting continuously variable valve lift generation for smooth shipping of its 163 ps strength output and eager accelerative reaction. The 2.0-litre CVVL petrol engine may be distinct with both six-velocity guide or computerized transmissions. The high-powered Optima Sportswagon GT functions Kia's new 2.0-litre T-GDI GT petrol engine, which transmits engine power through a six-pace automatic.

Kia Optima Sportswagon on-sale from Q4 2016

The Kia Optima Sportswagon will cross on sale across Europe in Q4 2016, with the business enterprise's unique 7-Year, one hundred,000 mile assurance as fashionable. For European markets, the Optima Sportswagon could be built at Kia's Hwasung production facility in Korea.