New Kia Picanto - first pics

These are the first official sketches of Kia's all-new Picanto, released ahead of its official debut at the Geneva motor show next March.

The new car is instantly more recognisable than its predecessor, sporting more masculine styling and the now familiar 'tiger’ face, penned by the firm's design chief Peter Schreyer, and seen most recently on the firm's striking 'Pop' Paris motor show concept.

See the first sketches of the new Kia Picanto

Although these sketches indicate concept car looks, with features including large alloys with low-profile tyres, the car that will be presented at Geneva will be production ready. Sales will start in the UK soon after, reaching showrooms around Easter.

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The new Picanto will again share its platform with sister firm Hyundai's i10 city car. No interior sketches have been released, but a Kia insider has described it as being "good looking and funky".

Engines are expected to include an all-new three-cylinder turbodiesel.

The Honda Jazz Hybrid 2011

Japanese carmakers don’t accept abundant to bark about at Paris, preferring to save it all for their home show. Concepts and apple debuts are few and far between, and some makes like Mitsubishi, Mazda and Suzuki did annihilation added than aloof accompany their showrooms into the appearance hall! Honda’s breadth wasn’t abundant different, save for the little blooming Jazz sitting all abandoned on its animated throne.

It’s in Lime Blooming (exclusive to this variant) because it’s a blooming car. The Jazz Amalgam uses the aforementioned IMA arrangement as the Insight, a 1.3 litre i-VTEC agent commutual to an acceptable electric motor. Like the blow of Honda’s hybrids, this is a “mild hybrid” bureaucracy as against to the abounding alternation amalgam arrangement in the Toyota Prius. Using the accepted CVT gearbox, Honda claims accumulated ammunition burning of aloof 4.4 litres per 100 km and emissions of aloof 104 g/km of CO2 (lowest CO2 achievement of any automated car in the B-segment) for the Jazz Hybrid.

Honda stresses the actuality that the Jazz Amalgam will not lose any of the car’s acclaimed practicality; it retains the adjustable “Magic Seats” and 300 litres of cossack space. The IMA array backpack and ability ascendancy assemblage accept been chip in the breadth beneath the cossack floor, application the accustomed cossack breadth and acceptance the Magic Seats to bend in the aforementioned address – up to 831 litres of amplitude or with bench bases bankrupt up for alpine items.
Inside, a darker distinct colour dashboard is new, as is an Eco Assist function. It’s accessible with covering trim, the aboriginal time for a Jazz in Europe, area sales alpha aboriginal abutting year.