First Drive: 2014 Kia Cadenza
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Loaded up, just like I said, is pushing $40k. YOu still have options to check when you get to SX Limited, a trim that didn't exist when the Optima launched. You also have to load up the Cadenza with every option in order for it to get to $42k.
I expect the incentives to be right in line with what you see on other cars in its class. That is, if Kia does a better job of marketing this than Hyundai did with the Azera.
I expect the incentives to be right in line with what you see on other cars in its class. That is, if Kia does a better job of marketing this than Hyundai did with the Azera.
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The SX Limited is as high as you can go in the Optima. The only way to get the price higher than $34,500 is to add every single factory accessory and even then, it would only add $465 to the bottom line. $34,965 would be it, no higher. That would be MSRP and nobody pays MSRP. I don't think many consumers would define $34,965 as "pushing $40k".
In summation, the price is on par with its competition. I do wonder what the sales goals are.
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Like most new BMW's, this Kia has a serious overbite problem. Front end looks rediculous, but the rest of the package is fair.
Overall, I don't see anything special that will push this car out of dealer lots at an accelerated rate.
Overall, I don't see anything special that will push this car out of dealer lots at an accelerated rate.
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The Azera is selling about 1k cars per month in NA. I would guess the Cadenza will sell about the same, maybe a little less since the Azera name is more recognizable to consumers.
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Originally Posted by Lexus200
I thought auto makers had reached the limit of how many styling cues the could borrow, but KIA has proved me wrong. Should be called the Blender.
P.S. If that grille gets any more pinched in the center, BMW will bust a blood vessel.
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Now that you say that, i do vaguely recall a conversation about that. But i thought that was a pre-production model. Maybe i am wrong, but i was searching for the Cadenza's features and i couldn't find LED headlights in them. You have any links?
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Lol, i meant to be talking about DRLs in the beginning. But ya, regarding them, i couldn't find any spec sheets saying that the Cadenza had LED DRLs. Maybe i just suck at searching lol.
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Yes, I agree that, in some cases, the potential resale values of some (not all) American-market Hyundais and Kias are not up to some of their competitors. But that just proves my point.....long-outdated views of these vehicles, by the public, keeps holding down their values as used cars. We'll have to want and see how the Cadenza does in the marketplace. But it is clear that its cousin Azera's low sales were not due to being a substandard product, but simply by Hyundai's aggressive marketing/advertising of its own Genesis brother. The Genesis, in ads, was constantly being compared (rightly or wrongly) to ES and GS Lexus models, and a lot of people bought into it and simply by-passed the Azera.
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That's why a number of people, if they don't keep their cars for the entire vehicle's life, either trade in every three years or get three-year leases. The three-year mark in the life of many vehicles marks a major balance-point between depreciation, reliability, getting as much of your money's worth as possible, and the potential cost of getting into another new car.
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