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Mr Mike Mars here on the In Wheel Time show.
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I got to get you down, Michael.
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He has a review coming up, and what is that review going to be on?
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Mike.
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Well, let's hear this they're 2024 Kia.
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Niro.
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Niro Niro SX Touring.
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It's a touring car.
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Touring car.
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It's a Niro, so I keep thinking of Greek mythology and Niro.
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Yeah, I'm really not sure how they came up with that name.
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Niro is burning.
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Once you think of it, you know Not Nero, but Niro.
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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.
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So this is kind of a carryover, going to do a little tweaking on it, tweak it kind of get it going.
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Comes in five available trim levels.
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You got an lx, an ex, an ex touring sx, sx, touring.
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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.
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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.
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That way you don't have to worry about people getting insulted because they got the wrong thing.
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I'm not sure.
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Nope, but this one one because of the styling wall.
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It goes between a.
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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.
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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.
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So it's got a nice combination.
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Whatever color you get, it's got some nice black to kind of offset it there.
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Power lift, gate, power sunroof.
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We had we were on the optional 18 inch alloy wheels, which were also black.
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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.
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But the strange thing is it's got a wireless charger.
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But if you want to use Apple CarPlay or Android, you have to wire it.
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You can't use Bluetooth.
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Oh, it's kind of weird.
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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.
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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.
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Now, up under the hood it's got a 1.6 liter inline four hybrid motor.
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This is a hybrid 139 horsepower, got 195 torque, equivalent with a six-speed automatic.
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You put this all together and the EPA says in the city, you should be looking for 53.
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The highway, 45.
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Combined, you're looking at 49.
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Now I drove this car 315 miles.
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I didn't have any issues with it as far as charging or keeping it going.
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I had to put a little gas in it and that was about it.
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It is very smooth and quiet around town.
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I mean, this is a nice, easy driving city car.
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You get out on the highway, you're going to pick up a little bit of road noise.
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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.
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How about that?
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Now, if you get to looking at it, base model price is $28,315 for this car.
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Now the base trim price that we were driving, again top of the line $35,340.
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Now as tested, the MSRP on this baby was $37,105, wow.
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So if you're looking for something to compare it to, it's bigger.
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But the honda crv hybrid kind of falls into that same hybrid, smaller type car.
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It is 34,050, but again it's larger, smaller.
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So the toyota corolla cross, which is fairly new, has, uh, but it's closer in size.
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It's 28,220 dollars is what it's going to start at.
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And I do want to mention that the Kia does have the 10-year 100,000-mile warranty, which I think is personally outstanding.
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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.
