Kia Picanto’s minor facelift has given a new car name to the domestic market, Morning Urban. This car name best reflects Picanto’s leather. There are many fashionable elements in the entire car. From a visual point of view, the Picanto front has a lot of changes. , It has a fully-designed water tank shield, a new LED light set and a new sports bumper, and the water tank shield grille has also been changed, and there is a chrome decoration under the front bumper.
The same styling change, when you come to the back, you can see the design and the front of the car echo each other. There is a full LED light-shaped taillight group, there is a splitter under the rear bumper, which looks like a fake tailpipe, there are also new reflectors, and a double tailpipe that looks like a dummy. Other visual features include a new 16-inch aluminum ring, and additional chrome-plated door decorations.
Entering the cockpit, you will find many new decorations, plus an updated entertainment information system with an 8-inch display screen, built-in Bluetooth and other multi-pole systems. Blue connects the two systems when allowed. In addition, there is a smaller 4.4-inch display in the center of the instrument during integration.
As for the power system, there is only one engine available in the Korean market that is a 1.0-liter naturally aspirated gasoline engine with a maximum horsepower of 75 hp and a maximum torque of 95 Newton meters. The matching gearbox has a 5-speed manual and 4-speed automatic transmission .
Kia has updated its smallest product, the Picanto city car, with many upgrades to the interior, a series of more efficient engines and moderate style modifications.
The most popular rival in Volkswagen is equipped with a total of three new powertrains. Although the size and power output are roughly the same, they are the latest generation of "Smartstream" units designed to improve efficiency.
Two naturally aspirated gasoline engines (1.0-liter engine with 66 horsepower and 1.2 engine with 83 horsepower) started the series, switching from multi-port injection to dual-port fuel injection. It is said that this combined with improved exhaust gas recirculation lines, optimized intake valve timing and improved thermal management can make them more efficient.
At the top of the list is the 99-horsepower turbocharged 1.0-liter engine with a new 350bar high-pressure injection system and improved cooling. Picanto can also be equipped with a new five-speed automatic manual gearbox, which claims to have the convenience of a normal automatic gearbox and reduce fuel consumption and costs. The efficiency figures for the new units have not yet been announced.
The changes in appearance are concentrated on the sporty GT-Line and the rugged X-Line models. These features include updated bumpers, redesigned headlights and LED taillights, and a customized version of Picanto's "tiger nose" grille. The rest of the series benefited from new colors and alloy wheel options.
The previous Picanto’s 7.0-inch infotainment touch screen has now been replaced with an 8.0-inch. As the standard configuration of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, it can also pair with two different Bluetooth devices at the same time. The system has the latest version of Kia's UVO telematics function and an upgraded application-based system that can provide a variety of real-time Web-based functions. For example, the user can check the location of the car and send the route guide to the satellite navigation system through the mobile phone.
Source: WapCar