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Next Picanto pictures Kia’s new supermini spied testing advanced of 2011 Geneva Motor Show debut.
Kia’s acquisitive its new supermini is the Pic of the bunch! Our spy columnist bent this mule on analysis abreast the firm’s European R&D address in Russelsheim, Germany, ability testing advanced of its barrage next year.

And while the Picanto is cutting a abundant disguise, the newcomer’s accommodation are conspicuously agnate to the car it replaces. But the all-new car’s boxlike appearance has been accustomed a austere bang of appearance by architecture bang-up Peter Schreyer and his team.

At the front, swept aback headlights and the accustomed tiger’s bill chrome grille are visible, while the accepted car’s kinked shoulderline is replaced with a steeply ascent one, giving the Picanto a added adventurous profile.

The car pictured actuality has 5 doors, and is acceptable to be offered in that bodystyle at launch, but Kia is currently evaluating whether to body an even cheaper three-door version.

Expect the Picanto to affection a analogously absorbing interior, with a applied yet beautiful architecture that echoes the recently-launched Sportage. And just like the SUV, which majors on amount for money, the Picanto will be arranged with kit like air conditioning, electric windows and an MP3-compatible stereo.  

Under the bonnet, the Kia will get the aforementioned all-new 1.0-litre petrol engine that emits 99g/km of carbon dioxide, which will admission at Paris in the 2011 archetypal year Hyundai i10. The Picanto uses the aforementioned belvedere as its Hyundai sister car.

The new Picanto will accomplish its all-around admission at the Geneva Motor Show next March. Prices are acceptable to abide awful competitive, with entry-level versions costing about £7,000 if it go on auction in the UK aboriginal next summer.