The New Kia Forte Sport Sedan

Automaniac submitted on 07/02/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 9:52 AM
from: www.pressportal.com.au

Tags: Kia Forte

Kia Forte

The New Kia Forte Sport Sedan

What looks like official images of the upcoming replacement for the Kia Spectra & Cerato Sedan, the Kia Forte, has just appeared on clubforte.co.kr

With styling evident from the 2007 Kia Koup concept, the car is the work of Design Director Peter Schreyer, who previously worked at Audi for 25 years and created the award winning original Audi TT.

The car is due to be revealed in Korea on the 21st of August before going on sale shortly after in other markets. In America it will replace the current Spectra and within a couple of months of going on sale the 2 door Coupe variant should join it.

With the new Kia Soul also on sale late 2008 to early 2009 depending on market, Kia is certainly a brand on the move. The timing of these cars couldn’t be better, with large vehicle sales reducing in America. Notably, Kia was one of only a few brands that experienced a sales growth in the US for the month of June, with an increase of 7.6% over the same period last year.

Kia Australia is expecting the car to go on sale towards the end of 2008. by www.pressportal.com.au Read Article

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EL44 - 7/2/2008 1:13:42 PMView My AgentSpace

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Honda copycat!!

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222max - 7/2/2008 1:26:01 PM

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As with most Korean designs there's a little of everything in this as well. Some Lexus IS, also a little bit of Mitsubishi Lancer.

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monkeyrun - 7/2/2008 2:27:55 PM

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I thought it's an accord. Turns out it's a Lancer Accord hybrid.

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LACMAN - 7/2/2008 2:51:57 PMView My AgentSpace

+7 Boost

In my opinion, this looks like the Civic/New TSX done right.

-Nice job Kia

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1fstmach - 7/2/2008 3:41:57 PMView My AgentSpace

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Designs are sacred anymore haha

I think it is worlds above in design than the last Spectra, I was in Korea for 14 months so I got tired of seeing them

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IS3andME - 7/2/2008 4:25:38 PM

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Looks like the 1st gen TSX, just like Hyundai/Kia to do a Honda design. Remember they bough the tooling for the Acura Legend and starting building and selling Legends in Korea under Hyundai/Kia...

This is about a blatant as the Chinese copycats.

And I thought it was Jay Mays which is responsible for the Audi TT and the New Beetle.

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