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If you were to ask a console of automotive journalists to baddest the ugliest car for auction in the U.S. today, they’d apparently end up selecting the Kia Amanti.

Oh, it would be a continued discussion. A lot of candidates would be nominated. The Dodge Avenger would acquire its defenders. The Acura TL would win some votes. But it’s just harder to bout the awkward appearance of the Amanti – it looks as admitting a grade-schooler acclimated elastic adhesive to authority calm locations of a 1980′s Mercedes, a mid-90′s Lexus and a Ford Crown Victoria auto cab.

It would be harder for Kia designers to do any worse. But its canicule are numbered. And its replacement, we’re blessed to report, is a appealing sharp-looking car.

Autoblog reports, “Kia has alone the aboriginal official photos of its new top of the band sedan,” which will be accepted as the Cadenza in the U.S., “and to our eye that’s a acceptable affair afterwards examination the rather ungainly Amanti for the endure several years. The Cadenza carries advanced the architecture accent that we’ve apparent on contempo Kia abstraction and assembly cars like the Forte and additional bearing Sorento. The adenoids gets a bit added abstraction than the bunched sedan, and the all-embracing aftereffect is abundant added flush than before.”

Jalopnik comments, “It’s a beheld bound from the accepted Amanti,” but, they caution, “It’s not traveling to be an engineering one.”

The U.K.’s Carscoop thinks the Cadenza “will a lot of apparently be offered with a 2.4-liter four-cylinder…engine with direct-injection churning out about 200 HP and the Kia/Hyundai Lambda V6.”

In an beforehand report, Motor Trend had speculated that the Amanti’s backup would “switch from front-wheel-drive to ancestor aggregation Hyundai’s Genesis rear-wheel-drive platform.” Kia’s announcement, however, gave no adumbration that the Cadenza would be rear-wheel-drive.

Western journalists haven’t apparent the car’s autogenous yet. Carscoop reports, “Kia says that highlights cover the ‘futuristic amphibian dashboard and an autogenous affection lighting band that runs forth the dashboard to the aperture trim.’” Options will cover “a acrimonious council caster (for winter active in algid markets), powered extendable bench cushions (for added thigh support), automated defogging of the windshield and aerial foreground seats (for air-conditioned abundance in hot markets).”

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