Published the first pictures of the new Kia Picanto

2017 Kia Picanto revealed, without waiting for the Geneva motor show.

Korean company Kia has revealed details of third generation city car Picanto 2017 model year, without waiting for the official debut of the car at the Geneva motor show in March this year.

The wheelbase of the new citicar increased by 15 mm, and the total length of the car remained the same — 3 595 mm, but despite this, the cabin has added legroom and head of the passenger rear seat. At the request of the manufacturer, the chassis uses high-strength steel is two times harder former, with the result that the company expects that Picanto will be the safest model in the segment “A”.

Range will be headed by a version equipped with a 1.0-liter turbocharged engine T-GDI with a power of 99 HP with a torque of 172 Nm. Paired with a five-speed manual transmission the unit is able to disperse the sports version of the new “baby” Kia from 0 to 100 km/h in 10.1 seconds and reach maximum speed of 180 km/h.

The rest of the range includes models with 66-horsepower 1.0-liter 83-horsepower 1.2-liter petrol engines, paired with a five-speed manual transmission. According to the statement of Kia’s 1.0-litre unit, equipped with a system stop/start, will emit 89g/km of CO2. But for the 1.2-liter unit available four-speed automatic transmission.

To improve handling, engineers added a more rigid front and rear sway bars, upgraded rear torsion beam, making it lighter, and the steering rack was 13 percent “faster” and has now 2.8 turns lock to lock.

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