Next month’s Geneva Motor Show will see the world premiere of the new Kia Ceed, and after doggedly sticking to lowercase letters and an apostrophe in its name for two generations, the family hatchback will finally have a relatively normal name.
That’s not to say that it will be a more boring car to look at, however – the teaser sketch provided shows a car with a more dynamic look, borrowing more than a few cues from the sporty Stinger. There are sweptback headlights with four-dot daytime running lights flanking a slim “tiger nose” grille, while a trio of air intakes feature underneath. It’s a look that’s shared with the recently-unveiled Forte/Cerato.
Of course, we’ve already seen the Ceed completely undisguised before – the car will have a longer bonnet (giving the car less of an MPV-like monobox look), a simpler side window graphic, slim trapezoidal tail lights and a number plate recess that has been moved from the bumper to the tailgate.
The five-door hatch will form part of a revised Ceed range, which will ditch the pro_cee’d three-door model. That name, again without the weird punctuations, will instead be used on a low-slung shooting brake previewed by the Proceed Concept, sitting alongside the more traditional Sportswagon. There will also be a crossover model, following in the footsteps of the Picanto X-Line, plus a hot GT model.
Expect the Ceed to soldier on with updated 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.
GALLERY: Kia Proceed Concept
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KIA tigers had improved tremendously since the Sephia `99 glorious days.
This 2018 KIA Ceed looks alone already won me over. Common KIA, when can I trade in my Rio. I’ll prefer the 1.6 turbo.
agreed kia is a better buy than some of the japs…the sad truth malaysian still see kia as those old naza citra and ria days when its actually evolved alrrady to be on par or better than most japs marque
true that. so jeles of those kia spectra when i owned a waja.. see where the koreans are nw
in a way it’s good that many still see KIA as bad car…to keep Naza from rising KIA price too much
They alredi did. Cerato now higher than Civic prices.
The kia ceed will they open to malaysia market? Or it is only available in europe countries? The ceed designed by the germans and it looks cool and sporty