Kia has a dual-cab ute coming, codenamed TK and anticipated in Australia round 2025, and we will now expose the ‘non-negotiable’ pieces Kia Australia has injected into this system forward of the car’s release.

Talking with CarExpert at a up to date media match, Roland Rivero, common supervisor for product making plans at Kia Australia, mentioned that there have been 3 key pieces that have been non-negotiable for the staff.

“A large number of paintings has begun already round 12-18 months in the past. So it’s been an overly in depth program. And we welcome it as a result of with numerous product Australia hasn’t ever been introduced on this early within the construction piece,” mentioned Mr Rivero.

“So without a doubt from Kia’s viewpoint, Australia is a big marketplace, a very powerful marketplace that they want to communicate to and pay attention to with admire to the improvement of this product.

“We laid out to HQ [Kia global product development] one of the non-negotiables….they have been 3500kg braked towing capability, over 1000kg payload and a five-star ANCAP ranking.”

At this level we all know the ute will likely be diesel-only, a minimum of for the Australian marketplace. A petroleum model will likely be offered in different markets, however is not going to make it to Australia.

For Kia’s ute to correctly compete it’ll want to have a minimum of 470Nm of torque given the most recent entrant, the Mitsubishi Triton sits on the decrease finish of the band compared to the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux, either one of which recreation a 500Nm four-cylinder diesel powertrain.

A V6 would even be a pleasing to have, given Ford and Volkswagen are these days the one manufacturers to provide a V6 diesel method to dual-cab ute consumers on this phase.

There are a few six-cylinder diesel engines throughout the Hyundai Motor Staff: a three.0-litre V6 with 189kW and 560Nm used within the Korean-market Kia Mohave, and the Genesis GV80’s 3.0-litre inline-six with 204kW and 588Nm.

One among Kia’s focal issues for this product is the fleet marketplace and it’s understood the corporate is pushing onerous to verify it hits the entire contact issues required by way of that marketplace. Such things as the seven-year guaranty and five-star ANCAP ranking will likely be interesting to very large organisations with strict necessities.

Kia could also be running on a complete electrical dual-cab ute that’s anticipated to additionally fill the space required by way of fleets short of inexperienced paintings car choices.

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