Kia Has A Big Luxury SUV Bound For Detroit

by Aaron Cole

November 17th, 2020 1:19 PM

kia has a big luxury suv bound for detroit

Kia teased Tuesday a “future premium large SUV” it has in mind for the North American International Auto Show next week.

The gold-colored SUV is heavy on promises and short on details. According to the automaker, the concept is fitted with “state-of-the-art health-and-wellness technology,” but no word on powertrain.

So does that mean it’s powered like a “Flintstones” car, or something?

We’re guessing that it’s Genesis-sized, but that’s just a guess. Kia has a 3.8-liter V-6 and a 5-liter V-8 in the bag, so power would likely come from one of those options.

We’ll have to wait to see what the official specs are when the concept is unveiled next week. But we’re not going to work out in it, if that’s what Kia has in mind.

#Kia #NorthAmericanInternationalAutoShow #SUV

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Uncle Atom on Jan 06, 2016

Blood Pressure Monitor? Aromatherapy?

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- RideHeight on Jan 06, 2016
  
  Oxygen, wireless EKG vest and a little nitroglycerin dispenser in the console made by the Pez company.
  
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- Skink on Jan 07, 2016
  
  Narcan.
  
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GermanReliabilityMyth on Jan 06, 2016

I should clarify my earlier post. Luxury is the last resort for a manufacturer who is lazy, out of ideas or both. Instead of developing a manufacturing process for higher quality vehicles or coming up with innovative ideas, they pass this schlock off on us. More engine, more ride height, more Pep Boys (depending on how that goes) and more MSRP. Trying to promise plebs the chance to feel like high rollers with any vehicle in any brand's lineup is uninspired.

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Vulpine on Jan 06, 2016

Anyone think this might be the base platform for the Hyundai Santa Cruz?

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Vulpine on Jan 06, 2016

I think it's time for somebody to step forward and tell our government that a CUV is NOT a truck; it's a car-based station wagon.

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- Bball40dtw on Jan 06, 2016
  
  It doesn't really matter though.
  
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- RideHeight on Jan 06, 2016
  
  But Mr. Fox Goes to Washington could be a cute movie.
  
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- Vulpine on Jan 06, 2016
  
  @bball40dtw Wanna bet? Right now CUVs are about all that's saving the full-sized pickup trucks from major fuel economy fines.
  
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- Varezhka on Jan 06, 2016
  
  I wonder what *would* happen if these CUVs are reclassified as cars instead of trucks. Will we go back to the bad old days of BOF SUVs so that the automakers can avoid huge CAFE penalties? Or will we see price rise on CUVs (to offset the CAFE penalty costs), bringing people back to smaller cars?
  
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- Vulpine on Jan 06, 2016
  
  @Varezhka Personally, I think you'd see a sudden and VERY sharp resurgence of the true compact pickup truck by these brands with properly reduced capabilities for the ordinary daily driver and light-duty fleet work.
  
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