Friday, March 20, 2015

2014 Kia Forte Koup Turbo

Four-door sedan and Koup rolling on the heels of a five-door hatch, the Kia Forte is the third in the series again in 2014 debutante. Despite his clean style that compete with the Honda Civic coupe and Scion tC and the contemporary, the second-generation two-door Forte still more conservative pose strike, our sister company, let's say, more hyundai by innovative-feed Veloster.

The new car shares with his brother only the hood and front fenders and long, wider and Forte Koup last longer, adding more interior space, including critical, behind two inches of legroom. Moreover, this less-practical body style is a great practical help end car body with a wider opening. A larger ship usually means swollen empty weight, but can often reduce the Kia such a gain higher strength steel Koup was vaccinated. Once you have an example in this case if we will know our scale.


redesign brings with him a pair of new direct injection engines. As base Koup EX natural as last year's 2.4-liter 173-horsepower 2.0-liter four will do the same aspirate. Our last drive 201-hp, 1.6-liter turbo four, the Veloster Turbo and Kia wedges itself into the conversation with a sporty compact hatchback turbo-charged engine shared with its Forte5 SX Koup SX was limited. Minutiae junkies note: This first ever two-door that Kia was force-fed.

As do most modern gas turbocharger, Koup SX Gamma four 1750 4500 rpm 195 lb-ft of churning, serves up a wide range of torque on a nice platter. Continuously variable valve timing on the intake and exhaust side as you're taken SX what gear the engine is not particularly fussy and will come more flexibility adds a six-speed manual paddle .; Tick ​​a box and ponies need such a big thing for the six-speed automatic. There is an old numb clutch pedal and shift feel a so-so; Automatic transmission is not smooth enough, especially from hasty. Auto also offers generously sized steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters or manually controlled through the gear lever.

Blown, but not wasted

Kia says the SX turbo own custom exhaust note, but it sounds quite tame by the standards of the binary output sporty coupe. Good or bad, on the contrary Focus ST and VW GTI, Forte artificial or not develop sucking sound.

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