Impressive Warranty
Hyundai is Kia's corporate parent, so the Optima gets Hyundai's impressive warranty; it includes 10-year/100,000-mile powertrain protection and 5-year/60,000-mile roadside assistance.
Kia is putting more marketing muscle behind the new Optima. Its predecessor received little marketing support, and most folks wanting a Kia sedan brushed past it in showrooms and headed for the automaker's Spectra model.
The front-wheel-drive Optima has quick steering and a decent ride, but the softness of an older Buick and thus just average handling. The brake pedal has a linear action to help provide smooth stops.
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Wiper blades
Wiper blade maintenance
Commercial hot waxes applied by
automatic car washes have been
known to make the windshield difficult
to clean.
Contamination of either the windshield or
the wiper blades ...
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Maintaining a policy adopted early in the original car's evolution, Kia
continued to develop the new Kia cee'd chassis and running gear using Michelin
tyres exclusively, so that its engineers coul ...
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much more than that. This time, Kia decided to leave the help of the rocked-out
Soul hamsters behind and instead concentr ...