Kia birth rival Volkswagen Golf GTI

- Kia is planning to develop a new hatchback model to compete directly with the Volkswagen Golf GTI.Its leaders Kia has confirmed with Autocar newspaper reporter about the birth of a new high-performance car. "We are preparing baked line supercharged engine," said Soon-Nam Lee, director of marketing in foreign markets company Kia, confirmed. "We are improving the suspension and birth planning rival Volkswagen Golf GTI."According to Autocar, he recruits Soon-Nam implies, is the next-generation Kia Cee'd with designs influenced from the Koup concept was first launched in New York exhibition in 2008.
 
                                                   Kia Koup concept launched in 2008.Next year, 5-door models Kia Cee'd will step into the 4th birthday and need to be replaced. It is expected that the underlying engine block Cee'd GTI will be the Theta II turbocharged, 2.0-liter which is equipped with the latest-generation Kia Optima in the United States. However, instead of the two numbers 274 horsepower, 269 lb-ft similar to "senior" Optima, recruits Kia will only produce 220-230 horsepower.
For Kia, 2012 will be the time the company started distributing the sports car than to highlight the differences compared to the "brothers" Hyundai. "We will consider the number of production so that the most economical way," said Thomas Oh, senior vice president COO of Kia, said.
In addition, Mr. Soon-Nam also confirmed plans to assemble a new convertible car. "In Europe, especially Germany and the UK, customers are very popular cars convertibles, especially in the spring. We are planning to introduce a new convertible model based on the Soul in 2014, "said Soon-Nam explained.