2016 KIA Optima best sedan car in Kingdom
2016 KIA Optima best sedan car in Kingdom
May 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM
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May 7, 2016 | 12:00 AM
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The all new KIA Optima 2016 has won a new prize to be added to its international awards as it has been chosen by PR Arabia Auto Awards as the best sedan car for this year according to voting of the specialized committee which put it at the top of this category’s pyramid due to the integrated features through which KIA Optima 2016 starts up.
Sheikh Abdulsalam Mohammed Al-Jabr, VP for the Marketing and Sales of Al-Jabr Motors Co., KIA Motors Dealer in the Kingdom, and S.J Youn (General Manager Marketing KIA RHQ Dubai), have received the prize during the annual celebration of the prizes’ distribution which recently had been held in Jeddah and attended by a big gathering of officials and those interested in Auto sector.
Sheikh Abdulsalam assured in this occasion that KIA Optima car’s winning of this prize is an extension of several prizes that have been won by the car worldwide and the last one of them was the International Red Dot Design Award, “and today comes another affirmation of excellence and value of this car from the Kingdom which has received the new model with a huge welcoming that was obvious through the tangible buoyant demand of our valuable customers to obtain this masterpiece which has been forged by KIA Motors in a finite perfection and creativity,” said Sheikh Abdulsalam.
“All the categories of KIA Motors’ cars have become locally and worldwide occupying the first ranks regarding the buoyant demand of customers and sweeping of the prizes which is an obvious indicator of KIA Motors in achieving its planned goal to reach with the commercial brand (KIA) to the top of the auto-industry at the international level,” Al-Jabr added.
The new KIA optima car has been developed and improved by the international design teams of KIA Company in Namyangju (Korea), Irvine (California, United States of America) and Frankfort (Germany) the creative Peter Schreyer who was responsible for the previous generations of the KIA Optima as well. The new model, which its length has reached 4.86 meter and undergone minor changes in the dimensions, is characterized by sophisticated surface features and precisely drawn edges and a further taller appearance and that made it to be further splendid and present in the road than its predecessors and partially that is attributed to the windows’ lines which are increased in length besides the addition of a third lateral window behind the rear door and the shape (A) and (C) of the pillars, which are most smoothly withdrawn to the rear, were retained and that bestows the appearance of the sport sedan upon the model, furthermore they attract the signals that located in the rear at the sides of the KIA Optima car, to give it an additional depth and a new sophisticated appearance for the signals. — SG