Road Test: 2012 Kia Sorento LX V6

A family road trip in the Canadian Rockies explores the capabilities of Kia’s Sorento in my Toronto Star Wheels piece here, or after the jump.

Is Kia ready to take on the Germans?

If you’re ready for a REAR-drive Kia sports sedan, read my latest entry at MSN Autos Canada’s Passing Lane blog. Full post after the jump.

Autonews: Koreans take spotlight in Chicago

Hyundai and Kia dominate the American mid-west; Nissan sent us an Invitation for Geneva; Civic fix comes early; and Mercedes is looking to go 911 hunting—it’s all in my weekly Autonews column at Toronto Star Wheels. Full column after the jump.

2011 in Review: The best car I drove for <$40k

By John LeBlanc Korean cars aren’t the punch line to a bad joke anymore. Rising from their former positioning as backwater makers of bottom-feeder cars with lowball sticker prices and extra-long warranties, the Hyundai and Kia sister brands have turned into builders of some of the most reliable, safe, smartly-styled, technically advanced and value priced […]

The Crank: Can Kia transcend beyond its price-point marketing?

  Arguably—and even with no new cars to present—Kia’s presser at last week’s L.A. show was the best in a long day’s worth of corporate droning on.   For starters, Kia promised 15 salient points in a media-friendly 15 minutes, getting us all up-to-date on the tsunami of new models, the progress of its recently-opened […]

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