2008 Kia KOUP Concept

Combining active abandon with a adventurous and glassy design, Kia Motors America (KMA) debuted the Kia KOUP abstraction at the 2008 New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) during a columnist appointment at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Illustrating the appearance and change of approaching Kia vehicles, the simple yet adventurous and advancing KOUP exoteric is complemented by its astute and glassy autogenous design. Originating from the Kia Motors America Architecture Center in Irvine, Calif., the Kia KOUP abstraction embodies Kia's aesthetics of "Exciting and Enabling" with its counterbalanced accommodation and aqueous architecture set to arm-twist an affecting active experience.

"The Kia KOUP abstraction represents the approaching of the Kia cast and its activating cartage that allege to our amount philosophies," said Tom Kearns, arch artist of KMA. "Kia strives to address to the affecting ancillary of car enthusiasts who seek chance and appetite to booty a bound into the approaching with appearance and avant-garde technology, and the KOUP finer delivers."

First Glance

Curb address begins with the KOUP's counterbalanced accommodation and aqueous design. From the tab-shaped and bent high grille to the high-tech and businesslike headlamps, the advanced fascia's anatomy gives the agent a adventurous and advancing stance.

The KOUP appearance an apprehensible yet activating block appearance forth its abandon stemming from its glowing, carbon cilia and atramentous chrome added LED lamp lenses.

While the KOUP's all-embracing anatomy is simple and precise, it makes a architecture account with absolute astriction created by a "swoosh" that swoops from the "C" colonnade forward, bottomward to the "A" colonnade and flares all the way aback about to the reardeck lid. A abaft accumbent lip forth the accouter lid tapers up against the alien ends to accommodated up with the agitate from the beltline. The rocker axle has a characteristic "check mark" appearance and arresting caster flares that accord the KOUP a strong, bargain stance. The abbreviate overhangs and advanced attitude reflect its composed and acknowledging character.