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Kia processing Sorento-based 3-row SUV with hybrid power
Kia three-row hybrid SUV nether improvement to rival XUV700, Safari. Launching successful 2027.
The all-new Kia SUV, codenamed MQ4i, volition beryllium based connected the Sorento sold overseas.
The Kia MQ4i volition person a petrol-hybrid powertrain with a 1.5-litre petrol engine. It volition astir apt beryllium the brand’s archetypal beardown hybrid successful India.
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expect the three-row MQ4i SUV to beryllium astir 4.8 metres long, with a wheelbase of astir 2,800mm – somewhat much than the XUV700’s 4,695mm magnitude and 2,750mm wheelbase
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Kia volition manufacture this SUV astatine its Anantapur installation successful Andhra Pradesh, which is expected to beryllium the parent works for this model. Though the SUV volition usage the level from the Sorento, it volition person a wholly antithetic apical chapeau and a unsocial name, too.
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New Kia three-row SUV volition spell connected merchantability successful India first
It volition person a Hyundai derivative, excessively
It volition travel with petrol-hybrid powertrain
Kia India plans to nutrient astir 50,000 units of this SUV annually for the home and overseas markets. The institution had an yearly accumulation capableness of 3,00,000 vehicles and expanded it to 4,30,000 units past year. Once the caller Sorento-based SUV comes connected watercourse successful 2027, the capableness could scope astir fractional a cardinal units.
Kia’s sister brand, Hyundai, is besides readying its ain three-row SUV with akin underpinnings. Codenamed Ni1i, this model, too, is expected to person a petrol-hybrid setup and volition rotation retired of Hyundai’s caller works adjacent Pune.
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