2009 Kia Picanto 1.0 LX City Review,Start Up, Engine, and In Depth Tour

As far as launching new cars goes, basing your latest model on the established class leader, then making it better looking, makes a lot of sense. The latest product from Kia does just that.
The new Picanto takes its platform and engines from Hyundai's highly acclaimed i10 and serves as a long overdue replacement for the previous version of the city car, which alongside Peter Schreyer designed newcomers such as the C'eed and Sportage, was looking decidedly like a product of old school Kia; cheap and not ashamed of it.
The new car is 60mm longer than the one it replaces and has a 15mm longer wheelbase. It is available from launch as a five-door model, with the three-door following later in the year.
It looks solid too, with perfect panel gaps (quite an achievement when you open the doors and bootlid to find they are as light as a feather), a sharp nose, swollen wheel arches and confident rear light treatment. In a class where "cute and cuddly" is the norm, it certainly stands out.
Inside, the dash treatment is neat, with a silver strip running around the heating controls and over the glovebox adding a welcome splash of colour. The seats are comfortable, the dials easy to read and the stalks, while made of hard plastic, feel as though they'll stand the test of time.More a feature of the class than a criticism of the Picanto, the boot is tiny. Kia quotes 200 litres, which it says is a 27 per cent increase over the old model's, but you're still going to struggle to fit anything more than a weekly supermarket shop in there. Families with pushchairs take note.
The reward is a surprisingly spacious interior, especially up front where the windscreen stretches forward in the style of a mini-MPV. Those thin doors mean there's sufficient width inside that you don't constantly bang elbows with your passenger and there's enough headroom to get Princess Beatrice to a royal wedding.
With that height comes a lot of glass, which can turn this small car into a bit of a greenhouse when the sun's shining. How frustrating then that Kia has left air-con off the standard kit list for the entry-level model. With it, the £7,995 Picanto 1 with the company's three-cylinder, 1.0-litre engine would be the default choice in its class, doing absolutely everything a car of this type needs to.
That new engine is quiet, characterful and extremely economical. Admittedly, 68bhp at 6,200rpm could never be described as anything more than adequate, but along with 99g/km of CO2 and Combined consumption of 67.3mpg it makes for an appealing enough package and the light and accurate five-speed manual 'box means that the frequently needed gear changes are no chore.
To get this model with air-con you must upgrade to "2" trim, at which point it's bundled with Bluetooth phone connectivity, electric rear windows, automatic headlights, rear speakers and MP3 connectivity. All of a sudden the Picanto has become a £9,595 car. Alternatively, you can currently buy Hyundai's basic i10 Classic, which uses a 1.2-litre engine and comes with air-con and MP3 connectivity for £6,995. You'll get Hyundai's five-year warranty rather than Kia's seven-year alternative, but still reap the financial rewards of 61.4mpg on the Combined cycle and CO2 emissions of 108g/km.
Spend even more at your Kia dealership and you can have your Picanto with the new 1.25-litre four-cylinder engine, available as either a five-speed manual (£10,195) or a four-speed auto (£10,795). We tried the manual version and found it a more enjoyable device than the 1.0-litre thanks to the engine's extra torque (89lb ft versus 70lb ft), which means you don't need to change gear quite as much, nor get more than 4,000rpm on the clock until any meaningful acceleration occurs. It's still no rocketship, but the engine's 84bhp at 6,000rpm makes lighter work of any out of town action and still returns 65.7mpg on the Combined cycle and 100g/km of CO2.

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This’s the best city car

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i love this car...

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328,000 km and still running perfectly!

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good city car!

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I own the same model which presently flying 352,000 khms trouble free!!!!

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2009 Kia Picanto 1.0 LX City Klima with MP3 Radio

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Which country is this car in?

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Pretty car but best the 1.1

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Its a little good car

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Hat kia picanto 1 oder 2 rückleuchten

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How much

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