Every once in a while, there comes an unassuming car that manages to exceed expectations. And the most recent one would be the 2022 Kia Carnival. Well, not unassuming in its road presence and sheer size, but in the sense that it is a Kia and an MPV, intended as a people carrier/family car. In my time with the 2022 Kia Carnival, I have grown rather fond of it, and I don’t even have 9 children. This 11-seater MPV is currently fully-imported (CBU from Korea) with local assembly plans starting later

Sure, we trail behind Thailand and Indonesia in introducing the model but at long last, we have the all-new 2022 Kia Carnival in Malaysia, which is now open for booking though prices haven't been announced at the time of publication. Kia's distributors here – Dinamikjaya Motors Sdn. Bhd. – will be introducing the fourth-generation (codenamed KA4) MPV in its sole 11-seater guise. It's a much larger model than its predecessor (YP), measuring 40 mm longer than before at 5,155 mm, 10 mm girthier at

Although the Hyundai H-1 still leads Thailand's 11-seater MPV January-June 2021 sales chart, the 2021 Kia Carnival is quickly catching up, as latest data posted by Headlight Magazine shows. Hyundai sold 911 units of the H-1 in the five-month period. Although the numbers are still strong, sales dropped in May as the brand only sold 125 units of the H-1 then - the lowest in a month thus far this year. Although it started rather slowly, the Carnival has been consistently outselling the H-1 every mo

Malaysians - particularly the older generation - have a knack of calling reasonably-luxurious cars as 'big' cars. If you belong to a rather traditional family, you'll be golden with something large like a Toyota Alphard. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why some see it as something to strive for. But the Koreans called - they have the 2021 Kia Carnival to show you. If you've been in the third-generation (YP) model and found that to be big (we know we did), then the fourth-generation (KA4) ampli

The newly formed Kia manufacturing joint venture made between Bermaz Auto Berhad and Kia Motors Corporation - Kia Malaysia Sdn Bhd (KMSB) - will become Kia’s regional manufacturing hub. It will be Kia's first manufacturing joint venture plant in Asia outside of China. Apart from China and Korea, Kia has only two other manufacturing facilities in Asia. The one in India is wholly owned by Kia Motor while the one in Vietnam is owned by Truong Hai Auto Corp (Thaco). Kia does not hold any stake in th

Mercedes-Benz User Experience, or MBUX for short, is the company’s latest and greatest infotainment to date. How so? For starters, you can speak to the infotainment system, issuing commands like “Hey Mercedes, I’m feeling warm” and the car would then lower the air-conditioning temperature. All these can be done without the driver touching the air-conditioning controls. This is made possible by Linguatronic, Mercedes-Benz’s own ‘Siri’ voice command system. Then there’s the completely revamped use