The Toyota Alphard and Vellfire have been Malaysian’s go-to MPV for many years but you’d be a fool to not consider the fourth-generation 2022 Kia Carnival. If you’re not brand conscious and you’re looking for a family MPV, the 2022 CKD Kia Carnival is an MPV to consider. Also read: If you're shopping for an MPV, here's why you should consider the Kia Carnival Here’s what our colleague Greg has to say about the locally assembled Kia Carnival: Also read: Review: Forget recond Alphards, the 2022 Ki

Technically the 2022 Kia Carnival (KA4) sits uncontested in Malaysia. Well yes it's an MPV, with lots of seats and a couple of sliding doors, but it's the only one you can buy new in its price range that's built solely for the people-carrying business that's not a sanitised version of a commercial van. We already love the 11-seater, Korean-imported (CBU) variant that came to Malaysia first. It's far more difficult to sieve the negatives in the locally-assembled (CKD Kulim, Kedah) 7- and 8-seater

11-seater Kia Carnival set to be CKD soon To be sold alongside 7-, 8-seater variants Set for export to Thailand and other ASEAN countries too The 2022 Kia Carnival 11-seater – first introduced in Malaysia fully-imported (CBU) from Korea – will soon be locally-assembled (CKD Kulim, Kedah) here, to be sold alongside the CKD 7- and 8-seater variants. It will also be exported to the Thailand and ASEAN markets. "CKD programmes for the 11-seater has been initiated, basically for export to ASEAN countr

The cost to locally-assemble (CKD) a new model have tripled in the last 10 years, says Kia distributor Dinamikjaya Motors, whose parent company Bermaz Auto holds 33.3 percent of Kia Malaysia, the manufacturing arm of the Korean marque here. While Kia Malaysia and Bermaz Auto declined to reveal the amount invested into local manufacturing, we understand that it is a low-mid range 8-digit sum, in Ringgit. Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Executive Chairman Dato' Sri Ben Yeoh explained tha

A little more than eight months after announcing itself as the new distributors for Kia, Dinamikjaya Motors Sdn. Bhd. has introduced the all-new 2022 Kia Carnival in Malaysia. The 11-seater MPV is the first all-new Kia model introduced by the new distributor which took over from Naza. Prices for the local-spec Carnival has not been announced yet but the 11-seater is available for public viewing at Carlist Drive Auto Fair 2021 at the Setia City Convention Centre this weekend from 3-5-December 202

Since Naza Kia Malaysia updated the 2020 Kia Grand Carnival to an 11-seater MPV, the car’s interior experienced a massive downgrade. Gone were the comfortable leather seats and in its place were beige fabric ones. But it seems there is now an option to upgrade them to black leather. Uploaded on a Facebook post over the weekend, a Kia dealer in Seri Kembangan showed off black leather seats in the new 11-seater Grand Carnival. AZ Master Motor is apparently offering to upgrade the new Grand Carniva