Kia Telluride 2019 – the flagship crossover Kia Telluride

The new crossover Kia Telluride (Kia Telluride / Telluride in) is officially presented on January 14, 2019 as part of the Detroit Auto Show (North American International Auto Show). Overview of the Kia Telluride car in 2019-2020 – the latest news, photos and videos, price and technical specifications of the recent sale of the technical characteristics of the flagship crossover of the KIA brand with a 5-meter body, 7-8-seater saloon, a roomy trunk and a powerful 295-horsepower petrol engine 3.8 V6 and GDI in the company with 8 automatic transmissions.

Kia Telluride production plan to establish a Kia Motors production plant in Georgia (West Point, Georgia, USA), which also produced the Kia Optima and Kia Sorento for the American market. According to preliminary information, sales of the new KIA Telluride crossover in America are scheduled for autumn 2019, and recently by mid-2020. The price of the Kia Telluride flagship has not yet been announced by the manufacturer, but according to our data, it will be at least $ 32,000.

The biggest crossover to date, KIA Motors is the playground, but Hyundai's big brother is the picket fence. While tellurium stands out on the Hyundai stockade a large body with a hint of brutality in the exterior design of the exterior and interior, as well as a more spacious interior and trunk. However, it is rather unfortunate that the production version of Kia's flagship crossover was not as bright, original and stylish as Kia's prototype Telluride concept was shown in 2016, also in Detroit. There's nothing to be done, concept cars are often much more interesting than the production version.

The design of the exterior and interior of the Kia Tellurida involved experts from the California studio (Kia KIA Design Center in Irvine).

The flagship crossover of the Korean company received a huge front hood with two longitudinal ribs, a signature “tiger nose” grille, large vertical headlights (full LED daytime running lights with stylish contours), an original front bumper with characteristic cuts of horizontal air ducts and LED foglights.

The side parts of the body on the 5-meter crossover flaunts a long hood, huge round cutouts in the wheel arches, large doors with a high window sill, a flat and long roof, heavy feed with a slightly noticeable slope of the C-pillar.

Model feed Kia Tellurida succeeded by the designers, perhaps the best. There is a large trunk lid with original surface, dainty inverted L-shaped marker lights, like hugging with a smell in the back (light emitting diode 3D graphics), a solid and powerful bumper, almost completely dressed in Black, resistant to minor plastic damage.

Unpainted plastic, by the way, covers the entire lower body along the edges of the crossover's front bumper and wheel arches, sills and lower doors, and of course the rear bumper.

• The external dimensions of the body of the Kia Tellurida 2019-2020 are 5001 mm long, 1989 mm wide, mm 1750 height 2900 wheelbase mm ground clearance mm 200-203.
• For the crossover, it has 18- and 20-inch alloy wheels with 245/60 R18 and 245/50 R20 tires.

The interior of the Kia flagship with the original name Telleride can be 7-seater (landing formula 2+2+3) and 8-seater (2+3+3). In the first case, in the second row there are two separate chairs, and the second is a solid sofa designed for three.

The luggage compartment can take from 595 liters from the back of the third row of seats to 1302 liters with the addition (behind the backs of the second row). By folding the backs of the third and second rows, you can get a huge trunk volume of 2050 liters with an absolutely flat floor surface. *

The Korean manufacturer is calling the interior of the new Kia Telluride crossover a “luxury life”… perhaps American buyers will be “brushed metal” and “wood” made of plastic for natural materials. It would be correct to call the salon simply high-quality, comfortable and modern.

The long list of equipment for the KIA Telluride crossover includes a multifunction steering wheel with leather trim and heated seats for the driver and front passenger, electric adjustment, heated and ventilated seats in the first and second row of seats, a head-up display, a multimedia system with a 10.25-inch color screen (Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, Bluetooth, reversing camera or 360-degree system), three-zone automatic climate control with ceiling vents for second-row passengers, Harman Kardon premium audio system with 10 speakers rated at 630 watts, seat trim, perforated nappa leather.

Specifications of Kia Tellurida 2019-2020.
In technical terms, the Telluride crossover copies the Palisade platform model from Hyundai. Available platforms with fully independent architecture front (MacPherson) and rear (multi-link) suspensions, transversely mounted under the hood diesel naturally aspirated 3.8 l Lambda II GDI engine with V6 engine (295 hp and 355 Nm) in company with 8 automatic transmission gears, front-wheel drive or optional all-wheel drive HTRAC (rear wheels are connected using a multi-plate clutch).

The Crossover is also equipped with a choice of driving modes with 4 main electronic driving settings – smart, Eco, Sport, comfort and two additional snow and AWD Lock for off-road driving with asphalt. Interestingly, the modes are so smart and Eco of the KIA Telluride crossover in exclusively front-wheel drive modes, comfort and snow, 80% of traction is transmitted to the front wheels, and 20% to the rear in sport mode, respectively, 65% to the front wheels and 35% to the rear, and four-wheel drive with electronics blocking mode divides the traction transmitted to the axles evenly.