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Kia Soul gets fired up with limited-edition Ignition
Kia wants you to consider its 2010 Soul a template ripe for customization, and if you can't think of funky things to do with it, Kia will be glad to help you. This is the Kia Ignition Soul – the second special edition after the 1,200 Denim Souls released earlier this year – in "scorching" Ignition Orange, with offset black striping and blacked-out 18-inch rims, an alloy gas cap, and a rear spoiler. It starts at $17,500 for the manual, making it $200 more than the Denim. But you won't complain about equipment: upgraded stereo, ... Read more →
REPORT: Kia Soul Denim to be limited to 1,200 units, start at $17,300 Jeremy Korzeniewski
According to Kia-World.net, pricing for the Korean automaker's new Soul Denim, which we inadvertently stumbled upon in the land of coffee while testing the equally new Forte, will begin at ...
VIDEO: Soul Train: Stunt time with Kia down at the docks Chris Shunk
Do you remember those Transformers fan videos in which fanboys with a lot of time and not a lot of friends made stop-frame action sequences with their toys? The creative types at Kia must have ...
Keep Your Pants On: Kia Denim Soul on its way John Neff
We're clearly fans of the Kia Soul, in case you couldn't tell after reading our recent reviews of the Korean brand's new urban road warrior. One of our few gripes is that we can't order a Soul ...
Review: 2010 Kia Soul deserves to be breakout hit for brand Dan Roth
Greeting the Kia Soul with low expectations didn't make sense. Perhaps the details of the funkwagon's story seemed overly familiar at first blush – Kia wants, nay, needs to be more than ...
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VIDEO: Kia Soul aces Euro NCAP crash tests 6 months ago on Autoblog
There is no rating yet for the Kia Soul in the U.S., but in Europe the car did the business: the Soul scored five stars on the NCAP frontal offset, side impact and pole crash tests, doing no worse than "marginal" in just two areas. In the frontal offset test the windshield doesn't crack and ...
First Drive: 2010 Kia Soul Sport makes the scene in Miami 9 months ago on Autoblog
As far back as 2005, Kia tasked itself with becoming Korea's sporty automaker, leaving parent Hyundai to become a more affordable luxury brand. Then-chief operating officer Len Hunt admitted that while Kia's value proposition was clear, its products largely failed to connect with buyers on an ...
VIDEO: Kia Soul reinterprets the Hampster Dance 9 months ago on Autoblog
The original Hampster Dance was born in 1998 and featured an endless loop of four hamsters dancing to the song "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller. One of the first internet memes to really explode in popularity, the Hampster Dance and its simple animated GIFs look positively low tech by today's ...
Detroit 2009: Kia Soul'ster guns for fun and frolic 11 months ago on Autoblog
The Kia Soul has people talking. Specifically, you. Kia's media presentation here in Detroit highlighted feedback from the Autoblog commentariat. No, we didn't know in advance, but you won't hear us complaining either. However, the star of the show for Kia wasn't the Soul -- it's a new concept ...
Leakage: 2010 Kia Soul starting at $13,995 11 months ago on Autoblog
A little birdie sent us a memo addressed to Kia dealers outlining the prices and specifications for the 2010 Kia Soul, due to hit dealers this April. The base model, equipped with the 122 hp, 1.6-liter inline-four and mated to a five-speed manual gearbox will be sold at an introductory price of ...
Paris 2008: In love with Kia's funky Soul 1 year ago on Autoblog
The Scion xB may have written the book on small-and-boxy, but it appears that Kia may add another volume to the work with the Soul. We have no idea how the new Soul will go on the road, or how it will hold up – either materially or financially – but taking a seat in the giant shoe on ...
Paris Preview: More Kia Soul images, engine specs 1 year ago on Autoblog
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Kia Soul In the lead up to the Kia Soul's production debut at the Paris Motor Show, we've seen dozens of images, a trio of concepts and a spy shot or two, but today we finally get a taste of what Kia's answer to the Scion xB will be packing underhood. When ...
Officially Official: Kia Soul coming to U.S. in April 2009 1 year ago on Autoblog
Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Kia Soul. In April of 2009, the Scion xB will finally get some stiff competition from Kia in the form of the Soul. As reported previously, the new model will debut at the Paris Motor Show in October, measuring 161 inches long, 70 inches wide and 63 ...
More Kia Soul images revealed in London 1 year ago on Autoblog
Click above for a hi-res gallery of the Kia Soul While the production Kia Soul won't be revealed until later this year at the Paris Motor Show, the opening of the London show brings the release of more official images from the automaker. One thing's certain: it'll be hip to be square in 2009, when ...
Kia Soul gets its emo on, visits Vans Warped Tour 1 year ago on Autoblog
Looking startlingly like a Vans shoe, preproduction versions of Kia's Soul will be doing their roadie routine with the Vans Warped Tour in the U.S. this summer. The front and rear of the car will be hidden under camo tape done up like Vans trademark checkerboard pattern, and dark windows will keep ...
2009 Kia Soul bares itself ahead of Paris 1 year ago on Autoblog
Click above to enlarge Kia has released the first official image of the production Soul. And that's pretty much it. The press release accompanying it is several paragraphs of filler that tells you exactly nothing of value, other than that the car keeps "it's" concept forebear's name and will be ...
Production Kia Soul gets impromptu online reveal 1 year ago on Autoblog
We got our first look at what the production Kia Soul will look like during the Geneva Motor Show where the South Korean automaker unveiled a trio of tuner Soul concepts. The actual production five-door hatch, however, may have just been unceremoniously debuted online over at Kia-World.net, which ...
Geneva 2008: Kia bears its SOULs 1 year ago on Autoblog
Click above for a high-res gallery of all the Kia SOUL concepts. The production version of the Kia SOUL is on its way, and is likely to make its official debut sometime later this year. As an appetizer for what's to come, Kia unveiled three SOUL concepts in Geneva that supposedly speak directly to ...
Geneva '08 Preview: Kia SOUL Burner comes early 1 year ago on Autoblog
The product leakage continues as we're packing our bags for Geneva. This time, Autoweek.nl has released images of the Kia SOUL Burner Concept, one of three concepts that the Korean automaker will be unveiling in southern Switzerland. The SOUL is obviously taking aim at the Scion xB, which took the ...
Kia gives its blessing to U.S. Soul 2 years ago on Autoblog
At the 2006 Detroit Auto Show, Kia unveiled its Soul to the world, or at least its Soul concept (photo above). Now the Korean automaker says it's ready to put its Soul up for sale in the U.S. In show car form, the Soul was a four-door crossover powered by a 2-liter 4-cylinder with dimensions very ...
Autoblog Podcast #157: Mike Levine trucks along with us.
Mike Levine from PickupTrucks.com joins Chris, Sam, and Dan this week and gets a chance to talk about cars, too!
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