The Kia Cerato Forte will soon enter its third lease of life, and if reports are to be believed, the new model may be more closely aligned to the cee’d than ever before. This set of two pictures reveal nothing more than a peek, but it’s clearly a four-door sedan that’s different from the hatch we saw yesterday.
Not much is known about the new Forte, seeing as it’s the first time the car has been spotted wandering outside of private test grounds. Going by the design of the headlamps and position of the fog lamps, it looks like the Forte may in fact share a broadly similar outlook as the cee’d. From the picture above (courtesy of thekoreancarblog), one can tell the presence of projector lights and wrap-around LED DRLs, as well as a set of dual-tone twin five-spoke alloy wheels.
Things become more obscure round the back with all the heavy masking, but the graphics look to differ from the cee’d in light of the different body styles. Otherwise, we’ll have to wait for more pictures of less covered prototypes to become available.
The same applies to the powertrain. For now, expect the Forte to share the same updated engines as the cee’d, beginning with Euro 6-compliant versions of the existing 1.0 litre turbocharged three-cylinder, 1.6 litre direct-injected four-cylinder and 1.4 litre MPI petrol engines, alongside 1.4 and 1.6 litre CRDi turbodiesels.
Back home, the second-generation C-segment sedan is offered in three trims, starting from the base 1.6 KX, 1.6 SX and range-topping 2.0L. The first two are powered by a 1.6 litre Gamma II engine producing 130 PS and 157 Nm, whereas the 2.0 litre Nu MPI lump makes 161 PS and 194 Nm. All variants share the same six-speed torque converter automatic transmission.
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Damm good looker. successor of Waja’s rival, the Kia Spectra.
This car sure will sell well in Malaysia.
Somehow I feel I already know how this new Forte would look like. Boring! Move on Kia, you are resting on your laurels.
many pipu mistaken kia for the Audi.
Its Hyundai not Kia. But both r siblings so I can see why the confusion. Anyways, Kia too copies design from others as well. In this case its from Focus.
will the new forte sales beat honda civic? nah, i doubt.
This K3 will Not beat the Civic in M’sia but it is giving the Civic a HARD time overseas.
K3 giving hard time for Civic in overseas? What a joke. If that’s true, K3 must also be giving hard time for Camry in overseas because Civic just outsold Camrys in USA for the first time in history. Please get your facts right and don’t be a KIA.
Clap clap clap. Comparing a Civic with a Camry. Now I can ask U to “get your facts right” FIRST B4 Yapping.
Dear 12yrsold, first and foremost you must change your KIA mentality to be a global player. In my post above, I wasn’t comparing Civic vs Camry. It’s a fact that Civic outsold Camry in the USA recently, please go read about it. The only hard time K3 is giving is to its own company KIA, due to poor sales ended up major discounts given out to push the car to the buyers.
Mitsu & Suzuki killed off. so Honda Foreva!
If it included 1.6T engine.
Oh wai… 2018 Kia Forte(Focus-2011) is coming… As usial no suprise under Naza still carry same old engine/transmission… Impossible to have 1.0T
The All New 2011 Kia Focus!
Since when Kia is a Focus? Care to explain??
You are talking to the person who says Malaysia got cheapest car prices in the world and cheapest Ron 95 in the world
Got the wrong john there, mate.
Since Kimchi became king of copy
Naza please bring in 1.4turbo version
Hope it designed like Stinger
I think the engine will same with new elantra turbo because they r same technology sharing in Korea