LAST AUTO NEWS – KIA RAY
Last Auto account – Kia Ray Striking abstraction previews constituent amalgam technology for new ancestors car.
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Meet the abstraction car that shines new ablaze on Kia’s Prius rival. This is the Ray – and it boasts a constituent amalgam powertrain that will accomplish it assimilate the all-new Cee’d auto in 2012.
Revealed at the Chicago Motor Show, it appearance a 151bhp 1.4-litre absolute injectionpetrol engine additional by a 78kW electric motor and a lithium-ionbattery. It is akin to a CVT automated gearbox and is able of travelling up to 50 afar on electricity alone, or has a absolute ambit of 746 afar application the petrol engine too.
Incredibly, Kia claims the Ray can acknowledgment 202mpg in constituent mode, yet has a top acceleration of 109mph.
The head-turning physique is the plan of architecture bang-up Peter Schreyer, who ahead formed for Audi area he bound the TT, and appearance a glace appearance with a annoyance accessory of just 0.25 acknowledgment to its low ride heigh and long, top tail. It aswell gets an amid underfloor and low rolling attrition tyres with abbreviate 195-section tyres with 20-inch wheels.
Composite cobweb seats advice to accumulate weight down in the cabin, while admission to the aback is by rear-hinged ‘suicide’ doors. Other accurate appearance cover a Microsoft infotainment arrangement that allows users to baddest music and accomplish buzz calls via articulation activation.
The Ray aswell gets solar panels which ability a fan to accumulate the autogenous air-conditioned in hot conditions.
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