After ten successful years, Kia has decided to replace his luxury sedan Opirus a new model Cadenza. The car was first on South Koreans using the new platform the company’s Type-N, where drive is sold to the front wheels. Kia Cadenza Duty is 4 965 mm, which is more than Opirus, but at the same time the new sedan has a shorter wheelbase which facilitates maneuvering. The width of the new sedan is just 1 mm. greater than the old one, and its height is reduced by 11 mm to 1 475 mm. Cadenza can also boast lower weight Opirus, in this whole 130 kilograms. The appearance of the Cadenza and the interior is extremely clean and stylish, which is quite normal, given that they are the work of former chief designer at Audi, Peter Szrejer. He is the front of the car called “tiger’s nose, probably because of the shape of the grid, it is precisely this style will be new models of Kia, which will appear in the next few years. Kia Cadenza will initially be available with petrol, 3.6-liter, V6 engine, whose power is 290 h.p. and maximal torque reaches 338 Nm at 5 000 rev/min. It is combined with six-speed automatic transmission car and it can accelerate from 0-100 km/h for 7.2 sec and a top speed of 230 kilometers per hour, while average fuel consumption is 9.36l/100km run. At a later stage will be introduced two petrol engine with capacity 165 and 204 h.p.
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