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2025 Kia K5 Rolls Out With Revised Exterior Design, Larger Standard Engine
2025 Kia K5 Rolls Out With Revised Exterior Design, Larger Standard Engine

8 Feb 2024, 21:09 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The fastback-styled K5 sedan has received minor stylistic updates, a better interior, and a larger standard engine for model year 2025

 
The Updated 2024 Kia Carnival Is Here, Hybrid Variant Confirmed
The Updated 2024 Kia Carnival Is Here, Hybrid Variant Confirmed

27 Oct 2023, 09:11 UTC · By: Elena Luchian / After three years on the market looking the same, the 2024 Kia Carnival facelift sports a more daring design, in line with what the Kia lineup currently offers

 
Facelifted Kia K5 Breaks Cover, There's No Radical Change
Facelifted Kia K5 Breaks Cover, There's No Radical Change

26 Oct 2023, 13:24 UTC · By: Elena Luchian / After almost four years on the market, the fifth-generation former Optima/current K5 has finally been updated. The model received design cues

 
2024 Kia K5 Revealed With One Small Change Over 2023 Model, Costs $300 More Than Before
2024 Kia K5 Revealed With One Small Change Over 2023 Model, Costs $300 More Than Before

12 Jun 2023, 16:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The entry-level LXS grade may cost $300 more than the 2023 model originally did, yet it brings absolutely nothing new to the table

 
Kia Issues Safety Recall for the K5 Sedan Due to Incorrectly Installed Airbags
Kia Issues Safety Recall for the K5 Sedan Due to Incorrectly Installed Airbags

21 Mar 2023, 16:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Nearly 190k units of the K5 sedan, produced between the 2021 and 2023 model years, are called back to reinstall the side curtain airbags

 
Kia Recalls Sorento SUV and K5 Sedan to Replace Dual-Clutch Transmission
Kia Recalls Sorento SUV and K5 Sedan to Replace Dual-Clutch Transmission

14 Oct 2022, 16:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Late-model Sorentos and K5s equipped with the eight-speed DCT and 2.5-liter turbo are called back, with some of them to receive brand-new transmissions

 
2023 Kia K5 Drops LX Trim Level, LXS Opens the List at $25,090
2023 Kia K5 Drops LX Trim Level, LXS Opens the List at $25,090

16 Aug 2022, 14:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Kia's answer to the Hyundai Sonata isn't selling particularly well, which is why the South Korean automaker will reportedly drop it from the U.S. lineup

 
2023 Kia K5 Drops Base Trim Level
2023 Kia K5 Drops Base Trim Level

11 Jul 2022, 14:42 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Twinned with the Hyundai Sonata, the Kia K5 may be discontinued from the U.S. lineup in the near future, together with the Stinger

 
Death Knell Will Reportedly Sound for Two More Sedans in the U.S., Including a Sporty One
Death Knell Will Reportedly Sound for Two More Sedans in the U.S., Including a Sporty One

26 May 2022, 06:42 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / It's not only the Hyundai Sonata that will face the axe, but its platform-sharing sibling too, the Kia K5, and, unfortunately, the Stinger as well

 
Kia K5 Morphs Into RWD Supercharged V8 Monster to Fight Hellcats for KDM Glory
Kia K5 Morphs Into RWD Supercharged V8 Monster to Fight Hellcats for KDM Glory

30 Dec 2021, 09:45 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Timothy Adry Emmanuel, the virtual artist better known as “adry53customs” on social media, has received word that the “Korean domestic market is the next JDM”

 
Kia Smokes Previous Yearly Sales Record With a Month To Go
Kia Smokes Previous Yearly Sales Record With a Month To Go

1 Dec 2021, 17:43 UTC · By: Stephen Rivers / We've known for a while that Kia was challenging its rivals but these sales numbers prove that it's even further ahead than we expected

 
300-HP Honda Civic 1.5 CVT vs. Kia K5 GT Drag Race Concludes Rather Surprisingly
300-HP Honda Civic 1.5 CVT vs. Kia K5 GT Drag Race Concludes Rather Surprisingly

16 Aug 2021, 09:16 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The 290-horsepower Kia K5 GT isn't exactly slow, but a tuned Civic 1.5 turbo makes easy work of the mid-size sedan thanks to a 300-hp reflash

 
290 HP Kia K5 GT Drag Races BMW 330i, Power Gap Creates Surprising Results
290 HP Kia K5 GT Drag Races BMW 330i, Power Gap Creates Surprising Results

14 Jul 2021, 18:08 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Even though it's a heavy FWD car, the Kia K5 GT still managed to beat the more expensive xDrive 3 Series in some of the races

 
Brash Kia K5 Is Best Left Underground Where It Belongs
Brash Kia K5 Is Best Left Underground Where It Belongs

25 Jun 2021, 16:56 UTC · By: Cristian Gnaticov / Kia still claims that the K5 outperforms the BMW 330i, but we're not so sure that it applies to this particular example that has joined the low-rider squad.

 
2022 Kia K5 Updated With New Corporate Logo, More Options
2022 Kia K5 Updated With New Corporate Logo, More Options

3 Jun 2021, 14:16 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Kia's all-new K5 gets a little better for the 2022 model year, adding a few more creature comforts as well as the styling new Kia logo up front

 
Kia K5 Adventure Wagon Rendering Looks Ready to Rival the Audi Allroad
Kia K5 Adventure Wagon Rendering Looks Ready to Rival the Audi Allroad

28 Apr 2021, 16:14 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The old Kia Optima had a wagon version sold in Europe and Asia; the Russians over at Kolesa must have liked that because they rendered the K5 into an "Allroad"

 
Kia Muscle Car Rendering Looks Sharp, Mixes K5 Sedan and Camaro ZL1 1LE
Kia Muscle Car Rendering Looks Sharp, Mixes K5 Sedan and Camaro ZL1 1LE

19 Jan 2021, 21:27 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Kia has stopped messing around with coupes a long time ago, but there's just something cool about a muscle car from a brand that's not supposed to have any

 
Ford Mustang K5 Looks Like a South Korean Pony
Ford Mustang K5 Looks Like a South Korean Pony

18 Sep 2020, 20:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We can always use this rendering to show that choosing a futuristic rather than a retro design for the upcoming S650 Mustang wouldn’t be a bad idea

 
2021 K5 Is the Most Powerful Kia Mid-Size Sedan to Ever Walk This Earth
2021 K5 Is the Most Powerful Kia Mid-Size Sedan to Ever Walk This Earth

1 Jul 2020, 09:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Kia will be removing the Optima nameplate from its roster of cars, the sedan to be called from now on K5, and it just got revealed

 
2021 Kia Optima Renamed in the U.S., Please Welcome the All-New 2021 Kia K5
2021 Kia Optima Renamed in the U.S., Please Welcome the All-New 2021 Kia K5

20 May 2020, 21:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Kia Optima is apparently dead in the United States, and in its place, the South Korean moniker K5 will be used in this market