LAST AUTO NEWS – KIA SOUL HYBRID: 48 MPG, 0-62 IN 12.3
Last Auto Account – Kia Soul Hybrid: 48 mpg, 0-62 in 12.3 
We already told you about the Kia Soul Hybrid’s “transparent acrylic beanie and floor,” all the bigger to appearance off its gas/electric propulsion arrangement and array packs. But the official appearance from Paris aswell shows a across-the-board powered folding bolt roof, a rare-but-cool affection apparent on the brand of the BMW 318 ti and 1963 ..Last Auto account –
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We already told you about the Kia Soul Hybrid’s “transparent acrylic beanie and floor,” all the bigger to appearance off its gas/electric propulsion arrangement and array packs. But the official appearance from Paris aswell shows a across-the-board powered folding bolt roof, a rare-but-cool affection apparent on the brand of the BMW 318 ti and 1963 Volkswagen Beetle (where it was bolt but manually operated).
We aswell told you about the high-torque abiding allurement electric motor that fortifies the Gamma 1.6-liter gasoline four to the tune of an added 77 lb-ft and 20 horsepower, and routes that addional appetite to the Soul’s auto via a Kia-developed CVT.
Just like abounding added gas/electric hybrids (Kia getting the baron of imitation), the electric motor is army amid the flywheel and the transmission, area it acts as amateur motor and abettor for dispatch and hill-climbing. This electric accessory aswell shuts off during top acceleration canoeing and employs adorning braking to recharge the “Li-Poly 180 volt, 5.3 Ah ability pack” amid in the attic of the Soul’s block (the actual basal of its Soul?).
Kia claims abridgement ratings of 48 mpg U.S., putting it in a basic asleep calefaction with Audi’s A4 TDI abstraction e (48.95). Kia’s affirmation that its Soul Hybrid “will advance briskly” from aught to 62 mph in 12.3 abnormal reveals that this will be a broken-down little beast, and will eat the dust of both the Toyota Prius and the above Audi (10.4 and 10.7 abnormal to 60 mph, respectively). Kia says top acceleration will be 97 mph. The Audi acme out at 128 mph, and we’ve heard letters of the Prius hitting 106 mph. Autobahn drivers, yield note.
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