Kia unveils CUB Concept in Seoul in Seoul Motor Show

While New York Auto Show held the Seoul Motor Show. And while Korean brands presents innovations at American, reserved their biggest domestic news for the event with a series of concept cars. We have seen the SsangYong LIV-1, and Hyundai unveiled earlier some pictures of his concept car HDN-9. Now it is the turn to Kia.

The other group brand Hyundai presents the Kia CUB. Designed by the team of Peter Schreyer, the CUB is less than 4 meters long, has no B-pillars and features rear doors that give suicidal type full access to the passenger compartment. Despite its compact appearance, Kia presents him as “a 4-door coupe with the emphasis on performance and functionality.” Come on, a compact full-blown type Volkswagen GTI.

The Kia CUB is a realistic proposal almost a sports compact that could foreshadow the future Kia Rio.

With a casual exterior design, refined and somewhat sporty, Kia CUB recovers some aspects seen in the Kia Kee 2+2, 2007, as the two side air intakes below the bumper.

Onboard, the cabin has four seats very sleek design with a central console and a dashboard reduced to their minimum. Viewing this design and knowing that comes from Audi, Peter Schreyer is impossible not to draw parallels between Audi’s creations and the interior of the Kia, have much in common (minimalism, emphasis on the choice of materials, etc.).

In terms of gadgets themselves of a concept car, the flywheel can read biorhythms CUB’s driver and the information board computer is projected on a screen without the driver having to press any buttons, for a camera that captures your movements responsible for projecting the desired information.

Much more realistic is the mechanics of the Kia CUB. This is the 4-cylinder 1.6-liter gasoline direct injection, which equips the Kia pro_cee’d GT and Kia cee’d GT. It has a twin-turbo, develops 204 hp and 265 Nm of torque. Finally, the Kia CUB is a realistic proposal almost a sports compact that could foreshadow the future Kia Rio.