The fourth-generation Kia Optima has a new look and a new impressive list of standard features in the base model Si.

Kia Optima GT Road Test It's fair to say expectations about Kia have been building thanks to a string of improving vehicles from the Korean manufacturer. The pared back Optima mid-sized sedan range is the latest new model on-sale, offering a 2.4-litre Si and the GT 2.0-litre turbo-petrol we are testing here. Priced at $43,990 (plus on-road costs) but well eq...

Alistair Kennedy road tests and reviews the Kia Optima GT with specs, fuel consumption and verdict. We recently reported on Kia’s success in the 2016 JD Power Initial Quality Study (IQS), the USA car industry’s benchmark for new-vehicle quality. The South Korean company was number one. While the result will have surprised many it is anything but a surprise t...

With a more understated, but perhaps sophisticated, silhouette and a swag of standard features, the new fourth-generation Kia Optima has made a bold entrance into the mid-sized car market. As you may recall, the previous-generation Kia Optima was one of the key models offered by ‘new Kia’, a company that for some time now has been making genuinely stylish of...

COULD I be happy with a highly equipped – and I mean loaded – Korean car? It’s something I’ve long wondered, yet I always thought I knew the answer (erm, no). But along the way things have changed. First of all, today’s Korean car is a generally far more solid, much better handling machine that those of a decade ago. I’ve changed too. With kids, I’ve slowed...