2015 Kia K900 V-8

The 2015 K900 could function as the automobile that shifts Kia eternally. The automobile that elevates what is a worth-oriented business name to the most effective grade of high-end automakers. It may occur. But it likely won't.

It's not that the big, back-push K900 isn't a superb luxury car --it is great, along with a great automobile --it's simply not that great. This really is Kia's next measure up the stature ladder, but it's maybe not a jump to the most effective. Kia nevertheless isn't an "aspirational business name," but it's not a trading name for which one should settle. After attempting to sell automobiles in Usa for twenty years, Kia is a carmaker that purchasers can depend on. And now they're able to rely on Kia to promote them a large luxurious sedan.

2015 Kia K900 V-8

The K900 is nearer in dimension to a BMW 7-string than it's to some 5-set, and at $66,400 for the v8 version, it's priced in the neighborhood of a 550i.

The K900 isn't, strictly talking, Kia's edition of the Equus. But it's near. Close enough they share transmissions, engines, and much of the chassis suspension parts and layout. Simply V-8-powered K900s will be accessible this springtime when the vehicle starts. A v6 version, Kia guarantees, will follow several months afterwards.

The K900 seems like a somewhat overinflated Cadenza, which it self has the look of a thick-shouldered Optima. The K900 is fine, and several details such as the LED components living in the headlight pails are intriguing.

It Has Luxurious Items

A 9.2-inch navigation display controls the midpoint of the dashboard. The cottage is appealing and looks nicely assembled, even though there's nothing in the layout that appears especially identifying.

2015 Kia K900 V-8

The center display shows a tidy bird's-eye mosaic of what's encompassing the automobile when it backs-up (related to Nissan's program), the automobile emits a nice chime as it begins or shuts down, as well as the back seats--when outfitted using the full boat VIP bundle--are roomy, provide electricity recline, are warmed and ventilated, and flank a back centre armrest scattered with different environmental managements. The front seats are power-flexible thrones. Lodging are what this automobile does finest.

Competent, although Not Involving

The 420-hp, 5.0-liter direct-injected V8 idles in digital quiet. It requires a minute to determine the goof ball shift wand--1 of the worst reasons for modern BMWs is now on the list of worst reasons for a Kia, also--but the 8-velocity automatic transmission works so unobtrusively that it might require an MRI to find the shifts.

The K900 may not sense rapidly, but nevertheless, it shouldn't be sluggish.

These links are far more considering smothering the pavement to passing than participating it, although multiple aluminum links are used by the all - independent suspension at every corner. The journey is constantly controlled but never thrilling.

The remarkable differences: In Athletics, the dampers look somewhat stiffer, but the throttle reaction is not any sharper. The trip goes a little floatier in Standard or Eco, to where it feels as though it's been shot packed with lidocaine and the throttle response is dulled by Eco.

Your Own Limousine

The K900 is a digital sensory-deprivation chamber on four-wheels, nearer to an oldschool Cadillac than any new Cadillac away from the XTS. There's some thing to be mentioned for comforting isolation, but nevertheless, it shouldn't be mistaken for 21st century luxury. A lot of large luxury vehicles are out there that better equilibrium relaxation with reactivity.

2015 Kia K900 V-8

The K900 may be just the right automobile for joyful Optima owners to maneuver into after they reach the Powerball. But it is a luxury car when a lot of the rivalry has shifted to aluminium constructed around a steel construction. There's some limo in its Deoxyribonucleic Acid that retains it from really being a true driver's automobile.

This isn't an automobile which the close-term future of the firm rides. But in the long run, it shows--along with automobiles such as the GT4 Stinger sports car theory--that Kia isn't heading to be met with being only trustworthy.

2015 KIA K900 V8 - Exterior and Interior Walkaround - 2013 LA Auto Show