Kia Picanto News

By Tung Nguyen · 04 Jul 2023

Kia Australia has confirmed the punchy turbo-petrol Picanto GT will be discontinued with the facelift of the micro hatchback coming later this year.

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Kia confirms cheap small cars to stay in Aus

By Byron Mathioudakis · 17 Jun 2023

Kia has confirmed that it will double-down on its passenger-car offerings over the next few years, releasing replacements for its Picanto supermini and Cerato small cars through to the next decade.

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Here's what the 2024 Kia Picanto looks like

By Tom White · 06 Jun 2023

Despite losing the Rio, the smaller Picanto will continue in Australia - and here's what it will look like next year!

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Why is Australia's road toll still so bad?

By Laura Berry · 30 Apr 2023

Why is the annual national road toll increasing despite cars being safer than ever before? CarsGuide spoke to road safety policy makers and accident experts who know why more people are losing their lives, and they have revealed new tech coming to cars that will force us to slow down.

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List of the last manuals!

By Laura Berry · 26 Mar 2023

Manual gearboxes are being killed off by the soulless, unromantic savages who want a car with an automatic transmission. Which is nearly everybody. So, the car manufacturers are making hardly any manual cars now. But for the few beacons of hope trying to save this rare animal from extinction we’ve made a list of new cars still with manuals that are for sale in Australia. But for how much longer?

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2024 Kia Picanto facelift: what we know

By Byron Mathioudakis · 19 Mar 2023

With the ageing MG3 likely to vanish and the Suzuki Ignis’ future up in the air, Kia is set to take the high ground by offering the lowest-priced new car in Australia with the next Picanto.

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Need a $30K new car, SUV or ute? Read on!

By Byron Mathioudakis · 24 Feb 2023

Congratulations. You’ve secured $30,000 and need a new car.

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Kia Australia pricing increases for 2023

By Chris Thompson · 23 Jan 2023

Kia Australia has increased prices of some of its most popular models, with some of its most popular picks now hundreds or thousands of dollars more expensive.The pricing adjustments for new Kia cars came into effect on January 1, 2023, and affects models

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The secret formula to Kia's success

By Stephen Ottley · 21 Jan 2023

We wrote at the start of 2022 that it would be a pivotal year for the South Korean brand, testing whether all the work it had done in recent years would pay off in the sales charts. The answer was a resounding yes. Kia became Australia's third best-selling brand in 2022, capping (at least for now) the company's ascendancy from outsider to a key player in the market. As recently as 2017 Kia was on

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Time to downsize your house AND your car?

By Tony O'Kane · 06 Jan 2023

It seems that as society starts to shift toward smaller domiciles, so too should we be shifting to smaller cars – which is a bit of an issue given carmakers have been steadily subtracting light cars from their Australian showrooms, or pricing them deep into the $20K-plus region.

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