2017 Kia Picanto

2017 Kia Picanto

2017 Kia Picanto The all-new Kia Picanto city car made its public debut at the 2017 Geneva International Motor Show. The new Picanto will pass on sale across Europe from the start of Q2 2017.

Now in its 0.33-generation, the brand new Kia Picanto brings a new, more youthful and energetic individual to the A-section. Boasting an assertive new design and a first-rate, excessive-tech new cabin, the ultra-modern model also gives buyers greater capacity for customisation and guarantees to be the most flexible automobile in its elegance.

The new Picanto might be powered by way of one in all three petrol engines, which include Kia's new 1.0-litre turbocharged gas direct injection (T-GDI) electricity unit. When the brand new 1.Zero-litre T-GDI engine is going on sale at some stage in Q4 2017, it is going to be the maximum powerful engine ever supplied inside the Picanto, and the first time this vehicle has presented a turbocharged petrol engine.

Michael Cole, Chief Operating Officer of Kia Motors Europe, remarks: "The Picanto is one in every of Kia's high-quality-selling fashions round the world, and has a particularly robust fan base right here in Europe. Our European customers have instructed us that they love the design of the outgoing Picanto. They love its low jogging prices, its compact dimensions for metropolis driving, and the high level of system to be had for the money. The new version retains these strengths, and now offers a new degree of dynamism and overall performance, as well as introducing the modern-day technologies for in-vehicle connectivity and better protection. For those reasons we are confident that the new Picanto will help us similarly build our profile and marketplace percentage in this very aggressive phase."

Worldwide, more than 1.Four million of the cutting-edge-generation Picanto were sold because it become launched in 2011, with extra than three hundred,000 of those sold in Europe. Despite the car drawing near the end of its lifecycle in showrooms, Kia bought more than fifty five,000 Picanto fashions in Europe in 2016, representing yr-on-year income growth of 3 consistent with cent.

Exterior design

The all-new Kia Picanto has been created through Kia's layout centres in Namyang, Korea and Frankfurt, Germany, participating to design a younger, active look.

Briefed to supply an innovative, bold and amusing-looking city town automobile, designers have followed up on the mandate to full effect, giving the brand new Picanto a more assertive stance with bolder frame lines.

With the wheelbase prolonged to 2,400 mm (an growth of 15 mm), the wheels have been driven similarly out to the corners of the automobile for a 25 mm shorter the front overhang, making the auto appearance more planted on the street. Strong, immediately strains run horizontally across the the front of the automobile, emphasising the 'tiger-nostril' grille and angular new wrap-round headlamps. Vertical traces that embody the side intakes and lower grille enhance the Picanto's extra confident new 'face'.

In profile, the new Kia Picanto is characterised by one of a kind strains running alongside the aspect skirts, shoulder and around the wheel arches, and subtly-sculpted frame surfacing - once more, each supporting to create a extra assured on-street design and visually 'stretching' the car for a greater feel of ride balance - even though the Picanto is no longer than the outgoing model, at three,595 mm in length.

The new model adopts Kia's huge C-pillar as a layout motif, which stands more upright than that of the preceding version. Combined with an extended rear overhang - up 10 mm, to 520 mm - for a more assured posture.

The all-new Picanto will offers shoppers greater potential for customisation than ever earlier than, with a desire of eleven colourful paint finishes designed to make the car stand out. Among the six new colours available to shoppers are 'Lime Light', 'Shiny Red', 'Aurora Black' 'Pop Orange', 'Sparkling Silver' and 'Celestial Blue' pearlescent metallic paint finishes. The Picanto is equipped with 14-inch metallic wheels in its most basic shape, and customers can choose certainly one of 4 aluminium alloy wheel designs, starting from 14-inch to sixteen-inch in diameter.

The outdoors of the Kia Picanto is also complemented by way of new projection headlamps with LED indicators and LED daylight hours strolling lighting fixtures, and, from Q3 2017, a subtle shark-fin antenna on the roof to update the prevailing aerial.

For the first time, Kia can even provide the Picanto in a brand new 'GT-Line' specification, inspired through the sportier appearance of the employer's higher-performance 'GT' fashions, such as the Optima GT. In GT-Line specification, the outdoors of the new Picanto is completed with pink, silver and black highlights within the grille, side intakes, alongside the aspect skirts and in the rear valance, in addition to chrome-tipped twin exhausts.

Practicality and packaging

Despite its on-avenue footprint last the same as that of the outgoing model, the all-new Kia Picanto will provide customers fine-in-magnificence packaging efficiency, with most versatility as a result of its larger cabin and class-leading boot capability.

The Picanto meets the growing fashion toward 5-door models within the A-section, with Kia discontinuing the 3-door model for the third technology car. Offering most practicality, the new model is no large than the model it replaces, at 1,485 mm in peak, three,595 mm lengthy and 1,595 mm huge. The new platform boasts an extended wheelbase and longer rear overhang, however, liberating up extra space inside the cabin and boot (the the front overhang is reduced by means of 25 mm, to 675 mm).

Inside, the brand new Picanto provides occupants with more leg- and head-room than first-class-promoting rivals in the A-section, even as a decrease step peak makes for simpler ingress and egress. The base of the dashboard has been moved upwards by means of 15 mm for greater knee and leg area for the front passengers. The new Picanto is to be had with either 4 or five seats, with the rear bench split into both two or three seats depending on consumer choice (1.2-litre models are five-seat only).

The new central armrest for front passengers can slide to and fro up to 55 mm - a primary inside the class - and covers a small storage compartment designed to house a one-litre water bottle or a sunglasses case. At the base of the centre console is an open double-shelf tray to shop cell gadgets and different small objects, with retractable twin cupholders which can fold away to yield more storage area.

Beneath the sun visors within the the front of the cabin, the vanity reflect also capabilities brilliant new LED lights and a strip of mood lighting. By imparting the surrounding glow of a makeup room replicate, the Kia Picanto's new vanity replicate makes it simpler for occupants to use makeup, check their hair-style, or adjust their hat, headband or tie.

The boot grows from two hundred litres (VDA) to a most 255 litres - the maximum of any automobile in the class - and also features a -step boot floor, which may be raised or lowered with the aid of a hundred forty five mm to create extra space as required, as well as create an underneath-floor garage location. The 60:40 cut up-folding rear seats may be folded down completely flat with a one-touch lever, for optimum ease of use. This also boosts cargo potential to one,010 litres.

Comfort tiers are also stepped forward. Where the seats in many A-segment competitors offer one-piece returned rests with included headrests, the new Picanto offers customers fully-adjustable headrests, which pass up and down and tilt backwards and forwards. The Picanto's new seats are also more relaxed for longer trips, featuring the equal seat-base materials and production discovered in larger Kia fashions (including the brand new Optima). In the rear, the attitude of the back relaxation is more reclined - from 25 to 27 levels - for a greater secure posture, and slightly greater outstanding side bolsters at the rear bench further enhance consolation and aid during faster cornering.

Technology

Buyers of the brand new Kia Picanto may have access to some of the most advanced infotainment and comfort technology available inside the A-phase, while still taking part in the equal excessive price for cash predicted of a Kia vehicle.

The big, 'floating' 7.Zero-inch HMI touchscreen on the centre of the dashboard houses a navigation device with three-D map, and is available with Apple CarPlay™ and Android Auto™ for complete smartphone integration. A rear-view parking digicam with dynamic guidelines is likewise on offer to customers who want an additional level of guarantee when completing parking manoeuvres. An optionally available wi-fi smartphone charger and USB port, positioned at the base of the centre console, make certain drivers can maintain cellular devices charged at the move.

Safety and frame

The new Picanto is the most secure A-phase automobile Kia has ever made, proposing double the percentage of Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) as compared to the outgoing version and a spread of active safety technologies.

With a more potent frame than ever earlier than, 44% of the brand new Kia Picanto's bodyshell is cast in AHSS (up from 22 according to cent), lowering frame-in-white weight with the aid of 23 kg even as improving tensile power by way of 12 in keeping with cent. The new, stronger metal has been used to boost the ground pan, roof rails and engine bay, in addition to the A- and B-pillars, strengthening the middle shape of the automobile. The new bodyshell also uses greater than eight times the quantity of structural adhesive found in the outgoing model (sixty seven metres of joins in the course of the shape are now reinforced with the adhesive). Overall, static torsional stiffness has been stepped forward by using 32 in line with cent.

The stronger, lighter frame is supported by six general airbags (the front, front facet and curtain airbags), and an optional knee airbag, as well as a number lively protection capabilities. These encompass standard Vehicle Stability Management (VSM) with Electronic Stability Control (ESC) to make certain stability under braking and cornering, detecting a loss in traction and the usage of ESC to assist the driver preserve the automobile on path.

In addition, the brand new Picanto can be available with Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) - a key technology followed to beautify protection inside the predominantly city and concrete environments wherein most people of customers pressure their Picanto. An oblique Tyre Pressure Monitoring System is likewise to be had.