Kia Soul Reserve Automobile debuts for USTCC array
Kia has added a fourth trim to the Essence line, but this one is only for medical professionals. Customized by Go Go Gear as well as called the GoGo Gear Soul, a little black wonder will perform reserve car dutie s at all rounds of the 2010 Nitto Tires U.S. Touring Car Championship.
Removing to the scene of a collision fast will be aided by upgraded tires as well as cessation, Borla exhaust, Konig wheels, a reduced ram intake, strobe lights as well as a light bar. Click on a pic above for the better view, as well as check out a sum in a press recover after the jump.
[Source: Kia]Show full PR textKIA MOTORS AM ERICA DEBUTS OFFICIAL ESSENCE SAFETY AUTOMOBILE THIS WEEKEND
C ustomized Soul Sport to Serve as Official Safety Car for Nitto Tires U.S. Furloughed Automobile Championship for 2010 Competition Deteriorate
• Soul competition customized by GOGOGEAR promotions to pace a field during Infineon Speedway
• Fuel-efficient Soul to be showcased at 7 USTCC events
IRVINE, Calif., March 19, 2010 – Kia Motors America (KMA) will entrance a ra rely mutated Essence urban passenger vehicle as a Central Safety Car of the U.S. Furloughed Car Championship (USTCC) circuit authorised by a Inhabitant Automobile Competition Association (NASA) during a season opener race on Impetus 21 during Infineon Speedway in Sonoma, Calif. Formed off of the Essence competition, which receives 30 MPG/hwy and mutated by GOGOGEAR promotions for this purpose, this specially equipped vehicle features an upgraded suspension and tires for handling during a USTCC competition series whilst a strobe lights inside a headlights, taillights and the light club have been alittle of a same components used upon most police and emergency response cars.
“To further denote its unsentimental capabilities, Soul is assisting the Kia Motors code with its U.S. entrance into a universe of motorsports this year by augmenting the vehicle’s profile as well as recognition among automotive as well as racing enthusiasts,” said Michael Sprague, clamp president, marketing of KMA. “You hav e created recognition within the motorsports community during our initial motorsports season in the GRAND-AM Continental Tire Sports Car Plea Series as well as demeanour brazen to destiny motorsports initiatives.”
Initial seen at SEMA 2009, the mutated Soul sport features enhanced aerodynamics, low attrition synthetic Mobil 1 engine oil, a law free upsurge Borla exhaust, a light weight Optima battery, Whelen Engineering strobe lights, light weight Konig wheels, low resistance tires as good as a short impel intake by Takeda to further enhance efficiency.
In further to the March 21 race at Infineon Speedway, the GOGOGEAR Soul is scheduled to pace the following events:
• April 24-25, Thunderhill Raceway; Willows, Calif.
• May 22, Thunderhill Raceway; Willows, Calif.
• Jun 26-27, Infineon Raceway; Sonoma Calif.
• July 31-August 1, AutoClub Speedway; Fontana, Calif.
• August 21, Thunderhill Raceway; Willows, Calif.
• Oct 9-10, Infineon Raceway; Sonoma Calif.
A USTCC array, sanctioned by NASA, is modeled after European furloughed automobile races as well as facilities production-based sedans that have been modified for maximum performance, including extended framework as well as suspensions. NASA organizes activities for determined and achieved racers with competition cars and high performance street-driven vehicles. Its programs allow enthusiasts to enjoy a full performance capabilities of their performance vehicles in the protected as well as tranquil environment. For more information, revisit: www.drivenasa.com.
About Kia Soul
Available in four trims, Soul, Soul+, Soul! (exclaim) as well as Soul sport, Kia Motors’ affordable luminousradiance vehicle offers an tasteful starting price next $14,000 . Four special book Souls, formed on the Essence trim, also have been being expelled throughout the year, including the Denim Essence, Ignition Soul as well as many notlongago Shade Fire breathing monster Soul. Offering consumers even some-more ways to personalize Soul, each special edition comes with the own singular exterior tone and wrapping.
A uniquely styled Essence offers an endless list of standard safety facilities, togetherwith front seat active headrests, twin front advanced airbags, front seat-mounted as well as full-length side screen airbags, an Antilock Brake System (ABS), Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Traction Control System (TCS), Electronic Brake Distribution (EBD), Brake Assist Complement (BAS) as well as a Tire Pressure Monitoring Complement (TPMS). Front and rear crumple zones, side-impact door beams, an impact-absorbing steering mainstay and Lower Anchors and Tethers for Young kids (LATCH) system also come customary.
Kia Motors in 2010
Kia Motors is in a midst of a dramatic, design-led transformation, that has been delivering boldly styled vehicles in multiform critical segments at exactly a right time, contributing to the brand’s continued gains in U.S. marketplace share. The vehicle line features the invogue Gift compact sedan as we ll as two-door Forte Koup, the rarely personalizable Soul, organic Rondo CUV, award-winning Sedona minivan, purposeful Optima midsize sedan and versatile yet fuel-efficient Rio and Rio5 subcompacts. A launch of the all-new 2011 Sorento CUV, a official car of a NBA and a first vehicle to be assembled at Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia , Kia’s initial U.S.-based manufacturing comforts in West Indicate, Ga., further enhances a lineup.
About Kia Motors America
Kia Motors America (KMA) is the marketing and distribution arm of Kia Motors Corporation formed in Seoul, South Korea. KMA offers a complete line of vehicles by more than 670 dealers throughout a Joined States. For 2009, KMA available its 15th consecutive year of increased U.S. market share and notlongago completed the best entertain of sales ever. Kia Motors subscribes to a truth of building high worth, high peculiarity, protected as well as energetic vehicles. Kia Motors prides itself upon producing vehicles that are exciting as well as enabling as well as evoke a Kia tagline “The Energy to Warn.”
Kia Motors America is a “Official Automotive Partner of the NBA.” Information about Kia Motors America as well as the full vehicle line-up is accessible during the Web site – www.kia.com. For media information, togetherwith photography, visit www.kiamedia.com.
