Kia’s 2020 Seltos is about to enter the SUV world competition

By, 2019-06-22

The all new Kia Seltos made its official debut in India, and it’s due out globally by the end of 2019.

Kia mentioned earlier that Seltos is made for young, tech-savvy buyers. It wears a rugged-looking front end characterized by a tall, upright grille flanked by thin lights that stretch into the hood. It shares a handful of key styling cues with existing members of the Kia portfolio without completely copying another car.

It’s not a bigger Soul, or a Telluride that shrank after washing it!! The Seltos is relatively small and cheap, but it’s not spartan. Because it’s openly aimed at Millennials, it offers a long list of standard and optional tech features including a 10.25-inch touchscreen with a split-screen function for the infotainment system, a head-up display, as well as a feature Kia calls Sound Mood lighting. It’s an ambient lighting system that turns the cabin into a nightclub on wheels — minus the burly security guards and the overpriced drinks– by pulsing to the beat of the music playing from the stereo.

The passengers have eight lighting colors and six themes to choose from. When the party is over, the UVO app lets users remotely access information about the Seltos (like diagnostic data), and about the trips they’ve taken recently. It’s compatible with Apple and Android devices.

The all new car from Kia is not going to go head-to-head with a Porsche Cayenne Coupe, but we’re hoping it will be more dynamic to drive than other cars in its competitive set.

Kia hasn’t published information about the GCC-spec Seltos; we don’t even know if the model is coming to the GCC.

Globally, it will be available with a turbocharged, 1.6-liter four-cylinder rated at 177 horsepower, a naturally aspirated, 2.0-liter with 149 hp on tap, and a 136-hp, 1.6-liter turbodiesel. All three engines will shift through an automatic transmission, but Kia hasn’t revealed whether the Seltos will be front-wheel drive-only, or if some variants will be available with all-wheel drive. Kia will manufacture the Seltos in India and in its home country of South Korea.

It is a very suffisticated car that I am personally wish to see it in Qatar.