Kia attaches great importance to the Indian market. On February 5th, 20 19, the completion ceremony of Kia Motors India Factory was held in ananta Poole District, Andhra Pradesh, India. The factory covers an area of 210.6 million square meters. Construction started in 2065, 438+07, and it was put into production in July this year. The annual production capacity is 300,000 vehicles, and the total investment is 654.38+0.654.38+0 billion US dollars (about 7.738 billion yuan).
The first model produced by this factory is Seltos. 20 19 August, Kia Motors launched the first local model Seltos in India, and its sales performance has been strong. By the end of 10, 20165438 had produced a total of 48625 vehicles, of which 40649 were sold in India and 6 155 were exported to Southeast Asia and Central and South America.
Recently, Kia has made new moves. Recently, at the 2020 New Delhi Auto Show in India, the Kia Sonet concept car was officially released. As a concept SUV, the production version of the new car will be released in the second half of this year, positioning it as a small SUV, mainly for markets such as India.
Combined with the earlier concept map and the real car map of the auto show, the overall appearance of the Kia Sonet concept car is still the current Kia family style, that is, more radical, smaller in size, and the overall design style is biased towards fashion sports, but the toughness of Kia Motors is still retained in the bones. Know how to drive. Never been to India. I don't know how to run on the road in India. On the front face, the Kia family's roaring front grille presents another form in the new car. The chrome trim at the bottom and the black LED headlights connected on both sides are very fierce. The front wall, large-size concave opening and slightly complicated decorative strip design of the lower air inlet.
Coming to the side of the car body, the proportion of Kia Sonet concept car is very compact. The design of short front/rear suspension with large-size wheels looks very sporty and the trend is waiting to go. Designers have also made great efforts. The shape of C-pillar is still very unique. Color division makes the C-pillar and rear spoiler integrated, with black roof and A/B pillar. This design looks like the window and the roof are integrated, and the tail is an independent side, which is full of fashion.
At the rear, it has a unique C-pillar design, and the rear window of the new car is also connected with the black decorative plate at the rear of the C-pillar, showing a polygonal body outline. Below the tailgate, the penetrating LED taillights and the simple tailgate panel look very chic. In the rear enclosure, the new car uses a large area of black decorative board, and is equipped with bilateral exhaust decoration.
At present, the official has not announced the interior of the Sonet concept car. According to foreign media, the new car will be equipped with 10.25 inch central control screen, built-in navigation system and UVO? Connect the vehicle-mounted machine and equip it with BOSE brand audio. The power system of the new car has not been announced, and the official only revealed that the car will match the iMT intelligent manual gearbox. (Figure: source motor1; Text: Do you know how to drive? Li Guohui? Edit)
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