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Kia’s Sportspace wagon idea is so damn gorgeous and close to excellent that we count just 3 items we don’t like about it. 1st, the big ventlike things in the rear fascia look out of place second, the rear license-plate mount requirements to be relocated from the otherwise gloriously spare tailgate and third, the front running-lamp/vent pieces appear to riff a bit as well hard from Volvo’s playbook. Seriously, that is it—we’d eat up the rest of the Sportspace in a single bite, chewing optional.
Now this is the portion where we tell you that the Sportspace is just one more piece of vaporware, one more heart-tugging preview of a Europe-market place-only station wagon that we’ll in no way be in a position to purchase. Properly, that’s only partially true, as far as we know. What we’re hunting at right here, people, is very probably the subsequent-generation Kia Optima mid-size sedan, gussied up in station-wagon clothes in a bid to capture the interest of European types at the 2015 Geneva auto show.
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Follow along with us here: The Optima sedan is at the moment sold in Europe in generally the same kind it is sold in right here, and a redesigned version of the car is due this year. It is quite easy to connect the 2 dots with a extremely straight line and assume that this is the new Optima, as we did when Kia teased the Sportspace last week.
Having shown the car in this kind, nonetheless, it would appear as although Kia is at least thinking about adding a liftback model to its European Optima lineup. We’re also glad it does not seem to be following the lead of corporate sibling Hyundai in dialing back the hotness of its mid-size offering. The present Optima wowed the automotive planet with its daring and remarkably upscale style in 2010, and the Sportspace is even a lot more impressive.
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Details surrounding the car’s powertrain and interior are forthcoming—we’ll know much more when we see it in particular person next month in Geneva. Our inner nerds have our fingers crossed for some sort of diesel-electric hybrid setup like that in the Optima T-Hybrid concept from the 2014 Paris auto show, but a turbocharged 2.-liter 4-cylinder would much better match the sporty vibe. It is practically definitely front-drive, but all-wheel drive would come in handy when traversing the snowy backdrop in the press images.
Should the next Optima spring forth from the scorching Sportspace comparatively intact, it would right away render Toyota’s newly stylized Camry boring, let alone the conservative 4-doors from Honda, Hyundai, and Chevrolet. The Kia would give even Mazda’s drop-dead-gorgeous 6 a run for its funds. We have our fingers crossed that we can get in on the wagon action—after all, the last Kia-badged station wagon sold in the U.S. was the somewhat dumpy Rio Cinco from the early 2000s, and that is a terrible way to close the book on the physique style.
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