Mr Mike Mars here on the In Wheel Time show .
I got to get you down , Michael .
He has a review coming up , and what is that review going to be on ?
Mike . Well , let's hear this they're 2024 Kia .
Niro .
Niro Niro SX Touring . It's a touring car .
Touring car . It's a Niro , so I keep thinking of Greek mythology and Niro .
Yeah , I'm really not sure how they came up with that name .
Niro is burning . Once you think of it , you know Not Nero , but Niro .
Niro of it , you know , not narrow , but nero , nero , yeah , and in fact this is actually the second generation because it was , uh , this generation was introduced in 2023 . So this is kind of a carryover , going to do a little tweaking on it , tweak it kind of get it going . Comes in five available trim levels .
You got an lx , an ex , an ex touring sx , sx , touring . We happen to have the sx touring , so we're sitting at the top of the line and this is a really nice vehicle , so it is considered a small , compact SUV .
They kind of changed Everything's growing a little bit , so they're trying to get away , I think , from the compacts and the subcompacts and just say it's small . That way you don't have to worry about people getting insulted because they got the wrong thing .
I'm not sure .
Nope , but this one one because of the styling wall . It goes between a . It almost looks like a hatchback to some people , but it's not really a hatchback because of the styling on it , so it gives you a little more room in the back .
As far as the headroom in the back seat goes , it's not available with any r wheel all-wheel drive either , so it's got a couple of things here got led lighting all the way around , including the fog lights , got some gloss black body trim , including the rear spoiler and the roof rails . So it's got a nice combination .
Whatever color you get , it's got some nice black to kind of offset it there . Power lift , gate , power sunroof . We had we were on the optional 18 inch alloy wheels , which were also black .
So once we got into it we found out we had leather seating surfaces the front seats are heated and ventilated , as you would expect , or a car like this 10.25-inch touchscreen Now this is the bigger one because they're up in the trim level lines . But the strange thing is it's got a wireless charger .
But if you want to use Apple CarPlay or Android , you have to wire it . You can't use Bluetooth . Oh , it's kind of weird . It took me a little while to figure out why I couldn't connect Old-fashioned yes , but , like I say , it does have the wireless charging pad .
Now it also has a seven-speaker Harman Kardon system , so it's got plenty of tunes on it that you can crank it up . Now , up under the hood it's got a 1.6 liter inline four hybrid motor . This is a hybrid 139 horsepower , got 195 torque , equivalent with a six-speed automatic .
You put this all together and the EPA says in the city , you should be looking for 53 . The highway , 45 . Combined , you're looking at 49 . Now I drove this car 315 miles . I didn't have any issues with it as far as charging or keeping it going . I had to put a little gas in it and that was about it . It is very smooth and quiet around town .
I mean , this is a nice , easy driving city car . You get out on the highway , you're going to pick up a little bit of road noise . That I think is probably the tires , but I also think that you could turn up that hard and Carmen , and you didn't even notice it at all .
How about that ?
Now , if you get to looking at it , base model price is $28,315 for this car . Now the base trim price that we were driving , again top of the line $35,340 . Now as tested , the MSRP on this baby was $37,105 , wow . So if you're looking for something to compare it to , it's bigger .
But the honda crv hybrid kind of falls into that same hybrid , smaller type car . It is 34,050 , but again it's larger , smaller . So the toyota corolla cross , which is fairly new , has , uh , but it's closer in size . It's 28,220 dollars is what it's going to start at .
And I do want to mention that the Kia does have the 10-year 100,000-mile warranty , which I think is personally outstanding . So if you're looking for something in that smaller , compact SUV CUV category , there's a lot of competition there , but this is one of them you ought to look at .