Happy New Year 2013

We’re fully charged for 2013 and we hope our fans are too. We wish you a happy new year.

-From Kia family to yours

Looking Back at 2012 of Kia Fans

We have spotted some of the great photos of our fans through this year. We look forward to seeing YOURS in 2013! Thank you all!

Kevin Aprilio dan Si Putih

Prih Prawesti Febriani - detikOto

Kevin Aprilio (Gusmun-detikhot)

'Lamborghini' Milik Kevin Viera

Jakarta - Personel Vierra, Kevin Aprilio rupanya senang dengan yang berkulit putih. Eits, jangan berpikir macam-macam dulu, maksudnya mobil.

Ya, Kevin menggemari mobil-mobil yang berwarna putih bersih. Beberapa waktu lalu, Kevin memodifikasi mobil Honda Cielo lansiran tahun 1996 miliknya menjadi sebuah Lamborghini Gallardo. Pastinya berwarna putih.

Kini dia terlihat memakai mobil putih juga, tapi sebuah SUV Korea, KIA Sportage. Dia pun terlihat senang berpose dengan mobilnya itu.

Ketika ditanya urusan cewek, Kevin mengaku sudah puluhan kali menjalin asmara. Sejak masih kecil, ia sudah sering dekat dengan perempuan.

"Mengagumi, kalau melihat perempuan itu selalu bergairah, tegang, ada getaran kalau disapa, malu tapi bergetar rasanya," ungkap Kevin saat ditemui di DahSyat RCTI, Jakarta Barat, Kamis (4/10/2012).

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Kia Sportage Sabet Car Of The Year ICLA 2012

Septian Pamungkas - Okezone

Sabtu, 14 Juli 2012 10:04 wib

F: Kia Sportage (Septian P / Okezone)

JAKARTA – KIA All New Picanto dan KIA All New Sportage berhasil meraih penghargaan pada acara Indonesia Car Lifestyle Award (ICLA) 2012 yang diselenggarakan oleh salah satu situs automotif online.

KIA All New Picanto, yang dinominasikan pada kategori Best in Class berhasil meraih penghargaan sebagai Best City Car. Dan KIA All New Sportage yang dinominasikan pada kategori yang sama (Best in Class) dan pada kategori Best in Specialty berhasil meraih 3 (tiga) penghargaan yakni Best Compact SUV, Best Design dan Best Budget.

Moment yang paling membahagiakan adalah ketika diakhir acara tersebut, KIA All New Sportage akhirnya dinobatkan menjadi Car of the Year Indonesia Car Lifestyle Award (ICLA) 2012. Kemenangan ini membuktikan bahwa KIA Sportage yang merupakan produk asal Korea mampu bersaing dan layak dibanggakan.

"Kami sangat bangga sebab KIA All New Sportage bisa memperoleh penghargaan tertinggi. Apalagi, dalam ajang ini, tim BosMobil telah menguji ketangguhan mobil dengan sangat maksimal seperti melakukan perjalanan dengan jarak yang jauh dan juga pengujian dengan jalan yang sulit ditempuh seperti ke puncak gunung Suroloyo," ujar Bapak Hartanto Sukmono, Marketing Director PT. KIA Mobil Indonesia, dalam siaran persnya.

Penghargaan ini dilakukan dengan metode voting untuk setiap kategori dengan total pemilih sebanyak 32.000 orang. Museum Rekor Indonesia (MURI) pun memasukkan ajang ini sebagai rekor pemilihan mobil terbaik secara online dengan jumlah pemilih yang terbanyak.
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Watch Kia’s Paris Motor Show Press Conference Live

September 26th, 2012 Posted in Events,Videos   

• By Kia BUZZ Editorial Team

▶Name: 2012 Paris Motor Show
▶Press Days: Thursday, September 27 – Friday, September 28
▶Public Days: Saturday, September 29 – Sunday, October 14
▶Venue: Porte de Versailles, Paris
▶The live stream will begin at 17:30 (5:30pm) CET on September 27, 2012

Don’t miss your chance to the world premiere of the All-New Kia Carens and pro_cee’d live at the 2012 Paris Motor Show.

Kia Motors homepage.

Kia Launches $13 Million Global Humanitarian Project

September 3rd, 2012 Posted in Events,News,Social Responsibility,Videos   

• By Kia BUZZ Editorial Team

Kia Motors Corporation expanded its corporate social responsibility activities this month by launching its Green Light Project, a global social mobility program that will seek to improve the accessibility of health and education for disadvantaged youth in ailing regions.

The project’s official launch ceremony took place earlier this month at the future site of the Maendeleo Secondary School situated in the Madale area of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (East Africa). Kia Motors Corporation and SBS, a national TV and radio network in South Korea, funded the construction of the school, which will serve as the Green Light Project’s official base camp.

The ceremony drew an attendance of 700 local residents and was attended by Kia Motors Corporation’s Director of Management Strategy, Mr. Gui-Hyun Choi, and Ms. Jin-Ok Yang, the Secretary General of Good Neighbors, an international humanitarian non-government organization in General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UN ECOSOC).

Good Neighbors has been collaborating with Kia Motors to execute its Green Light Project activities such as the secondary school’s construction and deployment of four donated Kia K2700 trucks, which will be retrofitted for use as school and village transportation as well as mobile libraries and health clinics. Kia plans to give USD13 million of funding for the project in the 2012 fiscal year.

The Green Light Project adopts Kia Motors’ corporate social responsibility values of mobility and challenge, which were introduced last year as core principles to develop programs that will help lift social, economic, transport and health restrictions in poverty-stricken areas and give new hope to disadvantaged individuals.

October is the target month for the school’s finished construction along with an adjacent community center named the Green Light Program Center. The school will consist of four classrooms, two laboratories and one library. The community center will serve as multifunctional annex and base camp for the Green Light Project’s social awareness activities, afterschool classes, material storage, and dispatch station for the four Kia K2700 trucks.

All the facilities at the Maendeleo Secondary School will be in full operation starting from next year, and the goal is to have them independently operated by local community participants within the next five years.

“A green light is the universal transit symbol to move forward, and as an automotive company, our Green Light Project will provide mobility to individuals in both a literal and figurative sense. Our Kia K2700 trucks will offer safe transportation to local residents who are isolated from healthcare and education services, and the Maendeleo Secondary School and its neighboring Green Light Program Center will empower individuals to challenge and move past restrictions that are keeping them from living a more fulfilling life,” said Thomas Oh, Executive Vice President and COO of Kia Motors Corporation.

In addition to Kia Motors, Good Neighbors and SBS, the project is also supported by 70 volunteers from Kia’s Happy Move Global Young Volunteers, Korea’s largest private volunteer group, which rallies support for various humanitarian causes. Volunteers will help with an assortment of activities including school construction, bus stop creation, and supporting educational classes at the school.

Kia plans to expand the Green Light Project to other countries and regions through the cooperation of its global network, and its next project will take place in the southeast African nation of Malawi. That program will be a cooperative project with Food for the Hungry International – Korea (KFHI), a global non-profit organization that focuses on poverty needs that relate to food, water resource development, primary healthcare and income enhancement.

Learn More

See what other activities Kia has been doing from previous BUZZ postings:

• Kia Motors’ 2010 Global End Poverty Campaign

• Happy Move program happily moved Slovakia

• 2008 Lhotse Youth Expedition

Explore All Things Sportage with this New App

August 7th, 2012 Posted in Design & Technology,Vehicle Models   

• By Kia BUZZ Editorial Team

If you’re a past, current or potential Kia Sportage owner who enjoys exploring car info interactively then you’ll love our new Kia Sportage iPad app. It’s developed by the same award winning app team that brought you the Picanto and Rio iPad apps.

First Impressions

When we fired up this app on our iPad, we were wondering if our digital design team could top themselves again. After all, they set a high standard with the Kia Rio app, which recently received the highly sought-after “best of the best” award in the communication design category from the Red Dot Design Awards, one of the largest and most-acclaimed international design competitions.

At a quick glance you might dismiss this app as a standard e-publication style brochure, but once you start navigating the content, you’d be surprised at the immersiveness of the interactivity. The Sportage iPad app answers virtually all frequently asked questions one might have about the vehicle, from detailed tech specs to design philosophy. All of these answers are spelled out and displayed in sharp viewing quality across some very slick and realistic simulations.

App features:

• Available for iPad
• European and general market specification
• 360° exterior / interior view
• Customization tool to view available colors and wheels options
• 3D intro movie and interactive elements to experience features & benefits
• Photo & video gallery
• Kia company and design story content

The app starts with an awesome featured video, of an orange Sportage racing through a Gotham-like city.

Going ‘underneath the hood’ is an understatement to describe the interactive x-ray cutaways that show off some of key performance features of the Sportage.

Check out some of the Sportage’s safety features such as the rear-view camera display (RCD) and electro-chromic mirror (ECM)

As the old safety belts commercials used to say, “You can learn a lot from a dummy” and this one is demoing some the unique seat protection features of the Sportage.

If you think this Sportage app only features the latest model, you’re mistaken – there is a groovy little video highlighting its design history and transformation from 1996 – A must see for any Sportage owner.

Want to learn more?

• If you still have not checked out the Sportage app, click here to download it for free from the iTunes store.

• For our Rio app review, go to our previous post Experience the Kia Rio via Interactive Apps

Tell us what you think

You can definitely lose track of time exploring the ins and outs of the Sportage through this app, but don’t take our word for it. Check it out for yourself, give it the full hands-on review and tell us what you think in the comments section below.