Kia Comes Upwards Amongst A Sexy Executive Sedan Inwards The All-New 2021 K5

The Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, in addition to Mazda6 improve direct maintain note—Kia’s novel design-driven K5 mid-sized sedan is ready for primetime. Marketing a novel era for the Korean automaker, the K5 aims to capture some attending with its hitting exterior, driver-focused interior, in addition to novel powertrain options including the availability of all-wheel crusade for the start time.

Set to launch inward global markets inward the start one-half of 2020 (it’s currently unknown if novel Kia distributor Ayala Automotive volition offering it), the K5 (aka the Optima) has a fastback silhouette. And since it’s a collaborative seek past times Kia’s blueprint studios inward North America, Europe, in addition to South Korea, it marks a greater boundary forwards betwixt generations than whatever of its predecessors.

Similar to the Seltos, the K5’s tiger olfactory organ grille integrates its LED headlights into the grille giving it an aggressive face. In profile, the trunk narrows slightly midpoint—inspired past times the ‘coke bottle’ shape of the high-performance Stinger. Of course, the K5’s proportions are commutation to its sportier attitude. While the summit of the vehicle has been cutting past times xx mm (to 1,445 mm), the car’s overall length has been extended past times l mm (to 4,905 mm), its width past times 25 mm (to 1,860 mm), in addition to its wheelbase past times 45 mm (to 2,850 mm). Finally, at the back, it boasts a novel lighting signature—LED lights that bridge the width of the parent deck. Wheel sizes arrive at from sixteen to nineteen inches.

For the interior, the K5 introduces Kia’s novel blueprint linguistic communication which volition move adopted to across other models. Replacing the infotainment hide integrated into the surface of the previous-generation’s dashboard, the novel machine sports a broad infotainment display which is physically attached to the musical instrument cluster inward front end of the driver. In for sure models, the optional 10.25-inch touchscreen sits amongst Kia’s novel 12.3-inch digital musical instrument cluster, displaying information clearly merely below the driver’s trouble of sight over the route ahead.

The K5 boasts of a broad arrive at of interior options—a alternative betwixt single- in addition to two-tone coloring schemes; mood lighting; wireless telephone charging; in addition to a 12-speaker Bose audio system.

Of note, it is the start Kia to come upward available with the novel Remote Smart Parking Assist (RSPA), which enables drivers to motion their machine autonomously out of a front-and-back parking infinite remotely with their commutation fob. This is designed to become far easier to larn inward in addition to out of the machine inward tight parking spaces, or if some other driver parks likewise around access whatever of the doors.

Under the hood, it gets Kia’s novel Smartstream powertrains which delivers greater efficiency in addition to refinement than e'er before.

The base of operations engine is a normally-aspirated 2.0-liter MPI engine making 152 horsepower in addition to 192 Nm of torque; a 2.0-liter with Continuously-Variable Valve Lift that bumps upward the mightiness to 160 horsepower in addition to 196 Nm of torque; a 2.5-liter at nowadays injection with 194 horsepower in addition to 246 Nm of torque; a turbocharged 1.6-liter at nowadays injection engine with 180 horsepower in addition to 265 Nm of torque; in addition to finally, a turbocharged 2.5-liter with 290 horsepower in addition to 422 Nm of torque.

All engines are paired equally touchstone with six- or eight-speed automatic transmissions, spell the turbocharged 2.5-liter comes with Kia’s novel 8-speed moisture double-clutch transmission (8DCT). Designed to offering the shine shifting characteristics of a conventional automatic, the 8DCT enhances fuel efficiency over eight-speed automatic, depending on application.

One of the around of import novel introductions for the latest-generation K5 is the availability of a novel all-wheel crusade (AWD) system. Available with for sure engines depending on market, the AWD arrangement offers buyers enhanced dynamic capability inward weather condition where traction is reduced, shifting mightiness to the parent axle based on driver inputs in addition to route conditions. The K5 remains front-wheel crusade equally standard.

The K5 is fitted with upward to ix airbags, equally good equally a suite of electronic vehicle security systems including vehicle stability management in addition to electronic stability control. It also comes with a arrive at of driver assistance tech such equally collision avoidance assist, blind location persuasion monitor, in addition to more.

While the executive sedan segment isn’t equally big equally it 1 time was, hopefully Kia Philippines volition reckon bringing the K5 into the solid set down equally a form of halo machine amongst the Stinger GT in addition to the Forte GT.