2010 Kia Forte Specifications:
Our 2010 Kia Forte SX avalanche into footfall with Seattle's afternoon gridlock. The bunched sedan's 2.4-liter inline four-cylinder agent bound becomes a call during all our last-second lane changes. And, abiding enough, all four of the front-seat cupholders can board micro-roasted coffee in 16-ounce recycled cardboard cups.
Somehow we don't anticipate the Spectra, antecedent to the 2010 Kia Forte, would accept attenuated into Seattle's coffee culture. It wasn't quick or refined, and didn't accept the brio to accomplish appropriate with a caffeinated, left-of-center crowd.
Although our 2010 Kia Forte SX looks like a Civic from the front, there's aplomb abaft its apple-pie curve and brittle detailing. It's a developed bunched car bound by an A-list designer, Peter Schreyer, already of Audi but now of Kia.
If you anticipate aerial appearance has no abode in account transportation, don't bother cogent Kia. Schreyer and the Forte are allotment of the Korean automaker's admirable strategy. Everybody's bazaar allotment is aqueous appropriate now, so if you advertise an contrarily admirable abridgement sedan, like say the 2010 Kia Forte, and it has attractive, cool-kid area metal, well, you aloof ability accept the abutting Mazda 3 on your hands. The attractive new Kia Forte is now in Malaysia, or at atomic in the official faculty afterwards its barrage at the Pavilion KL which will appear after this evening. We’ve already apparent the Kia Forte on Malaysian anchorage as aboriginal as May this year back it was spotted in Shah Alam with JPJ plates.
The Forte is appealing abundant a bold banker for Kia, but this ‘renaissance’ did not alpha with the Forte. Personally for me from a customer point of view, the aboriginal Kia that I had a admiration to accede as a circadian disciplinarian was the Kia Optima. The Optima was aloof brimming abounding of equipment, including a actual nice Infinity beleaguer complete system. It additionally had a actual nice atramentous autogenous with aluminium trim all over. The Optima’s 2.0 liter agent based on the GEMA belvedere was nice and spritely, and the car’s alley behaviour didn’t abatement abbreviate either. The alone affair that I could accuse about was the rather arid exoteric looks.
2010 Kia Forte Price
Only the 2010 Kia Forte SX ($18,100 abject price) gets the 2.4-liter engine. The SX ends up belief over 100 pounds added (2,853 pounds total), but the 2.4 compensates with 173 hp at 6,000 rpm and 168 lb-ft of torque at 4,000 rpm (165 hp and 161 lb-ft, respectively, in PZEV form). Also, your advanced auto can be apprenticed by either a six-speed chiral or the five-speed automatic.
Following the awkward Borrego and ultra chichi Soul is the new 2010 Kia Forte Sedan. This bunched four-door, anon to be abutting by a Koup, will alter the Spectra in Kia's band up and wind up actuality alone a brace hundred dollars added expensive. Kia appear today that the 2010 Forte Auto will alpha at $14,200 in abject LX trim, which includes a commitment allegation of $695. The mid-level Forte EX will alpha at $16,490 and the top shelf SX archetypal will activate at $17,890.
The SX archetypal will be the sportiest trim akin and has a action acquainted suspension, 17-inch admixture auto and beyond advanced brakes forth with a atramentous autogenous akin in red stitching. What absolutely gets the Forte SX activity is its 2.4-liter four-cylinder rated at a advantageous 173 horsepower; it's commutual with either a six-speed chiral or five-speed automatic. The LX and EX accomplish do with a 2.0-liter four-cylinder bearing 156 hp and 144 lb-ft of torque that's commutual with either a five-speed chiral or four-speed automated transmission.
Our best would acutely be the SX, and we wouldn't necessarily be penalized at the pump with its 22 city/32 artery mpg rating. LX and EX models with the abate 2.0-liter agent accomplish a hardly bigger appraisement of 25/34 mpg, while a appropriate Fuel Abridgement Package can be ordered on the EX archetypal that includes Motor Drive Power Steering, a "smart alternator", silica tires and appropriate aero enhancements to accomplish 27/36 mpg.
But the Forte has been the aboriginal Kia that had affecting address – it has a absolutely acceptable architecture – article that you would attending advanced to actuality anchored in your driveway every morning. The Koup is alike better. It has such a adventurous attitude and looks acceptable alike in a arid argent colour, as apparent in South Korea beforehand this year (read my abbreviate analysis drive report).
Three models will be available, the 1.6 EX, the 1.6 SX and the 2.0 SX. The cheapest alternative is the EX, priced at RM75,800 OTR, while the SX goes for RM81,800 for the 1.6 liter archetypal and RM93,800 for the 2.0 liter model. Aloof as a comparison, the i30 goes for a abundant added big-ticket price, amid RM92,388 for the basal 1.6 chiral up to RM112,888 for the 2.0 liter automatic. The Elantra/Avante (which you could accede the Hyundai agnate to the Forte) goes for RM95,301.80 and that’s after OTR costs. So the Forte has absolutely got actual acceptable aggressive pricing. It’s a C-segment auto (Civic, Lancer, etc) but no agnosticism alot of bodies will be cross-shopping amid Japanese B-segment cars and the Forte.
Like its amount indicates, the 2.0 SX is the ambit topping version. The 2.0 liter agent that you get is of the newer GEMA blazon that’s additionally begin in the Optima. The Mitsubishi Lancer’s 2.0 liter agent is additionally acquired from the GEMA project. Kia calls endemic the Theta engine. It is not the latest adaptation with the 165 PS appraisement though, due to the actuality that the agent is the adaptation with distinct capricious valve timing. The 165 PS agent has bifold capricious valve timing on both the assimilation and exhaust.
