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While I'm sure Kia will get a version of whatever the RWD platformed Genesis utility vehicles are. I believe the Telluride is much closer to development, paired with the Hyundai 3 row crossover replacing the 3 row Santa Fe. From initial spy pics looks like a more traditional FWD platform
Can't really say the concept looks all that impressive from a styling standpoint. Will those fancy rear doors make it into production? Too plain and square but then again it could have ended up looking completely goofy like a clown car, so sometimes safe is better than risky in the SUV game. What's more impressive is the underpinnings. This should be a really good vehicle from a driving dynamics side. A proper rwd-based suv and that's important for Hyundai/Kia/Genesis to get to market quickly.
While I'm sure Kia will get a version of whatever the RWD platformed Genesis utility vehicles are. I believe the Telluride is much closer to development, paired with the Hyundai 3 row crossover replacing the 3 row Santa Fe. From initial spy pics looks like a more traditional FWD platform
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I agree that this looks like a FWD vehicle. In fact, the concept was FWD based with a transverse V-6 hybrid power train. It was the KIA North American chief of distribution, Orth Hedrick, who hinted to Motor 1 among others about the use of the K900 chassis. It could be that KIA is planning 2 new large SUV's. The suicide doors almost certainly won't make production.
A prototype of a large, three-row Kia SUV, shown in concept form at the 2016 Detroit auto show as the Kia Telluride, has already been spotted testing with little to no camo ahead of its expected market debut next year. The SUV was snapped by Instagram user saudi_shift, revealing the wide, GMC Yukon-like front fascia, tall hood and very vertical headlights of the upcoming model.
The Telluride concept was a bit of a surprise at the Detroit show two years ago, but it was not a new direction per se for Kia: The Korean brand offered the full-size Borrego SUV in the U.S. for a grand total of one model year in 2009 -- almost an undisputed record for a major automaker in the U.S. in the 21st century. The Borrego, with its optional 4.6-liter V8, fell victim to, among other things, the economic crisis, as well as the more modestly priced Kia Sorento, which offered about 80 percent of what the Borrego did and at a much easier-to-swallow price point for Kia buyers.
no but bring some stinger type slyling instead of this boring block that will sell as well as the borrego.
......or sell as well as the boring-block Suburbans and Escalades?
I know that some people don't like shoe-box styling (and I respect those opinions)....but a cardinal law of math/geometry is that a block is one of the most space-efficient designs possible....and SUVs are, among other things, supposed to be about interior space.
About two and a half years after the concept's debut in Detroit, the (mostly) production 2020 Kia Telluride has been revealed in New York for Fashion Week. The odd location for the reveal has to do with a partnership with fashion designer Brandon Maxwell who got Kia to donate to his childhood school district in Marfa, Texas, as part of the deal to display the SUV at the show. It has also been customized to fit Maxwell's Texas-themed line of fashion for spring and summer of 2019.
Although the production SUV is partly obscured by custom features such as the off-road bumpers, skid plates, auxiliary lights, ladder and spare tire, this is still our best look yet at the SUV. There's clearly a lot of influence from the old concept, but there's also been quite a bit of compromise for production. It's a clean design that's still pretty squared off. The headlight and grille design borrow heavily from the concept, and the taillights are pulled right from it. It's much taller now and more rounded. The rear hatch isn't upright and vertical anymore, the front fascia has been given an arc that softens it, and the proportions between the headlights and grille seem like they may still be in flux.
Kia is still keeping many of the technical details under wraps. The company says that the Telluride will have seating for up to 8 passengers, and that it's a few inches longer and wider than the current largest crossover in its line, the 7-passenger Sorento. It will also have a V6 under the hood. Availability and pricing still have yet to be announced
04-11-18 | 05:29 PM
