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Kia Motors Nigeria has reintroduced its car loan scheme with Access Bank.

Tagged Kia Access Bank Joint Vehicle Acquisition Scheme, Kia said it was introduced to bridge the gap between customers’ desire to own a new car and their budget.

“To ensure that the process goes as smoothly as possible, the finance scheme has provided a flexible acquisition scheme that fits all,” Kia said.

The finance scheme has flexible four-year repayment tenure, free insurance, discounted price, low-interest rate and competitive equated monthly installments. The 2018 Kia Rio and other range of vehicles are covered in the finance scheme. Customers can have access to this scheme at over 20 Kia sales and service outlets in the country and all Access Bank branches nationwide.

Kia Motors in a statement quoted Access Bank Executive Director, Personal Banking Division Victor Etuokwu as saying: “The finance scheme is aimed at making all customers own a brand-new car with ease and tailor-made payment options. The joint promotion offers a subsidised insurance and registration fee, with improved access to an auto loan to enable customers to drive their dream car.”

Kia Motors Nigeria Vice President Debanja Paul said: “This partnership represents another step forward in our strategy to ensure our customers have consistently available, transparent and competitive financing. Kia’s vehicles offer modern design and reliability at an affordable cost. And with our special auto finance scheme with Access Bank, it’s never been easier to take home your very own brand-new Kia.

“The partnership provides the opportunity for customers to walk into any Kia showroom or Access Bank branch across the country and get an on the spot finance solution. The on-site financing service means that you have access to both the cars and the financing solution under the same roof to make owning a KIA hassle-free. Kia Motors Nigeria promotes a customer-driven corporate culture by providing the best quality and exceptional service with all values centered on the customers. For over a decade it has embraced every opportunity to exceed customers’ expectations with steadfast passion and creative thinking geared towards owning a best-in-class car at an affordable price and flexible ownership scheme.”

Kia Motors Nigeria Marketing Manager Jimoh Olawale said: “We understand that buying your car will be one of the most significant purchases you will make, so it is important that you consider all the available options. We’ll provide you with key information on our products to help make that decision easier. With our fixed interest rates and flexibility of finance plans your new Kia has never been more accessible. Applying for a finance plan through your local Kia showroom or Access bank branch is easy; you will be provided a tailor-made support that perfectly fits into your budget to help you in choosing the right plan for your needs.”

The new Kia ProCeed will be unveiled on September 13, and make its  debut at the 2018 Mondial de l’Auto in Paris on October 2.

The car merges stunning design with the space and versatility of a tourer in a five-door shooting brake body.

The new ProCeed follows the design blueprint laid down by the 2017 Kia Proceed Concept, and will offer drivers an unparalleled combination of design and versatility.

Designed, developed and engineered exclusively for Europe, it represents a unique proposition in the mid-size family car segment.

For the fourth year, Kia has been recognised as the number one non-premium brand by J. D. Power in the Initial Quality Study (IQS), with a reported 72 problems per 100 vehicles.

Kia maintained its leadership position with segment-leading performances from the Sorento (Midsize SUV) and Rio (Small Car), while Optima (Midsize Car), Sportage (Small SUV) and Sedona (Minivan) placed second and the Forte (Compact Car) placed third in their categories.

After winning IQS awards in 2015, 2016 and last year, Soul was again the highest rated compact multi-purpose vehicle in the study.

Kia Motors America Chief Operating Officer and EVP Michael Cole said: “Ranking number one among all mass market brands for four consecutive years leaves no doubt as to the world-class quality and craftsmanship instilled in every car and SUV that Kia builds. With two segment winners and five additional models finishing in the top three of their respective categories, the evidence of Kia’s progression and focus on the ownership experience is overwhelming.”

The 2018 U.S. IQS is based on responses from 75,712 purchasers and lessees of new 2018 model-year vehicles who were surveyed after 90 days of ownership.

Vehicles were evaluated on driving experience, engine and transmission performance and a broad range of quality issues reported by vehicle owners.

Kia Motors Corporation is celebrating its volunteer activities across the globe.

Kia’s Green Light Volunteer Week, which runs until May 30, will see thousands of its employees around the world volunteering in their local communities.

In South Korea, Kia employees are taking part in a Green Light Card campaign. Volunteers from Kia’s manufacturing and R&D facilities, as well as the company’s global headquarters in Seoul, have been handing out Green Light Cards to children to promote road safety awareness and prevent traffic accidents. Affixed to children’s school bags, the Green Light Card acts as a high-visibility safety sign, reflecting the light from car headlamps to make students more visible to drivers when crossing roads.

“Giving back is in the heart of our business, it forms part of our core values. To celebrate our ongoing global CSR projects, alongside our international operations, we’ve created the Volunteer Week – to continue our great momentum of giving back to communities all over the world. This Volunteer Week will have activity in our home country of South Korea and is being expanded across the globe to form a mass festival of corporate social responsibility activities,” said Kyehwan Roh, CSR management team leader.

More than 1,000 Kia employees have created 80,000 Green Light Cards for school students at over 600 elementary schools across South Korea, and are helping to pin the cards onto children’s bags. Kia plans to extend the Green Light Card program to all elementary schools in South Korea, distributing the Green Light Cards to about 600,000 first graders by 2020.

Kia’s manufacturing plants in Europe, China, Mexico and the United States are also participating in the company’s Green Light Volunteer Week.

Seven hundred employees of Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (KMMG)- the company’s North American production base – have volunteered to take part in a ‘CAN FOOD’ campaign, donating canned food to a charity which feeds lower-income residents in the nearby community.

Employees from Kia Motors Slovakia (KMS), Kia Motors Mexico (KMM) and Dongfeng Yueda Kia Automoblie Co. (DYK) in China also carried out their own volunteer activities in their neigh6bouring communities.

Kia has triumphed again in the Red Dot Awards, securing three prestigious awards for design. The new Stinger fast-back sedan, the Stonic compact crossover and the third-generation Picanto city car won in their respective categories.

The international jury of design experts awarded the Stinger the ‘Best of the Best’ title, praising the car for its pioneering design.

The trio of victories adds to Kia’s continuing success, with the company having won a remarkable 21 Red Dot Awards since the Kia Soul first took victory in 2009. The latest awards follow Kia’s triple iF Design Award win earlier in 2018.

“Our global design team can be incredibly proud of their latest triple triumph. It highlights Kia’s passion for design quality and ingenuity, which has once again been lauded by a panel of international design experts,” said Peter Schreyer, the President and Chief Design Officer of Kia Motors Corporation.

“Winning the ‘Red Dot: Best of the Best’ for the fourth time is truly exceptional. With its modern take on the classic gran turismo style, the Kia Stinger is further proof of Kia’s high design standards,” Schreyer added.

The Stinger, designed at Kia’s European design centre in Frankfurt, Germany, marries classic gran turismo design with a spacious and cosseting interior. Taking inspiration from the grand tourers of the 1970s, the Stinger features elegant fastback proportions and a muscular ‘coke bottle’ shape down its flanks, highlighting the car’s rear-wheel biased power delivery.

Also designed in Frankfurt, the Stonic, Kia’s debut compact crossover, offers a striking and bold exterior design, combined with an elevated seating position and practical SUV format. It is the most customisable Kia ever made, offering buyers a wide choice of two-tone paint combinations and interior colors.

The third generation of the Kia Picanto – Kia’s smallest car – brings a youthful and energetic character to the A-segment. It boasts a distinctive new design and a high-quality, high-tech cabin, with huge potential for customisation. Despite its compact dimensions, the Picanto’s intelligent design makes it one of the most spacious cars in its class.

Over 6,300 products from 59 countries submitted entries for The Red Dot Awards.

Since launched in 1955 by the Design Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Red Dot Awards has become one of the most prestigious design competitions worldwide. The judging panel comprises of 40 expert independent designers, design professors and trade journalists from all over the world.

The presentation of the Red Dot Awards will take place on July 9  in Essen, Germany at the Aalto Theater, an opera house designed by Alvar Aalto.

Kia Motors last Tuesday revealed the design of the new flagship luxury sedan – K900.

The K900 has been created in collaboration between Kia’s global design headquarters in Namyang, Korea and the brand’s United States (U.S) design studio in Irvine, California. It will make its world debut at the New York International Auto Show on Wednesday.

It will be manufactured in Korea and will go on sale across selected global markets from the second quarter of this year.

Combining a beautifully balanced design with elegant, flowing lines and geometric details, the K900 introduces a modern air of elegance and gravitas to the large sedan segment. Kia’s designers were inspired by the ‘Gravity of Prestige’ design concept, which exudes strength through rich detail and solid surfaces.  Based conceptually on the changing shape of condensed energy, a new ‘Quadric pattern’ signature grille – seen for the first time – is the focal point of the K900. Embodying the K900’s design concept, the grille contains 176 jewel-like ‘cells’, suggestive of released energy accelerating away from its centre.

Lines in the high-strength steel bodywork flow naturally from the grille, rising over the hood and, in profile, sweeping through to the rear flanks before meeting at the back.

Elegant by design, and with a high-class, minimalist layout, the interior of the new K900 provides the driver and passengers with a peaceful retreat in which to spend time. Kia has also developed a series of more expressive features for occupants to enjoy.

It has created a refined and luxurious cabin which wraps around the driver, enhancing the sense of being cocooned from the outside world. Flowing from the centre of the dash and outwards to the doors, surfaces are trimmed in a sophisticated combination of materials, with soft-touch surfaces, a blend of highly tactile wood and metal veneers, and genuine leather throughout the interior.

The cabin is designed to offer greater space and comfort than ever before. The K900’s longer, wider exterior proportions provides a more spacious cabin for occupants than its predecessor, while seats are trimmed in genuine leather, with smooth and quilted surfaces enhancing the prestige aspect of the interior.

Geometric design details add an element of modernity and technology. Evoking the trajectory of light, the design of the ‘Duplex’ LED headlamps provides the K900 with a visually progressive, high-prestige image. In profile, a chrome flash adds visual depth to the smooth bodywork, running along the base of the doors and around the lower rear section of the K900. The chrome window-line adds a degree of technicality and structure to the free-flowing C-pillar before it merges with the rear deck. The tail lights and exhaust housings are also finished with fine chrome details.

A key element in the design of the K900 comes from its new platform and elongated proportions. Longer and wider than its predecessor, the wheelbase of the new model has been extended by 60mm (2.3 inches) to 3,105mm (122.2 inches), while both the front and rear overhangs are shorter, pushing the wheels further out to the corners of the car. This subtle change to the K900’s proportions is a strong expression of space, while underpinning improvements in ride quality and creating greater passenger room on the inside.

The K900’s 12.3-inch HMI screen is integrated in such a way as to enhance a sense of calm and serenity on-board, with a bezel-less display and simplified switchgear layout.

The HMI features a new intelligent lighting control with proximity sensors, only illuminating the dashboard when it detects the driver’s hand reaching for a switch. Drivers can also adapt the cabin of the new K900 to personal preferences with a new mood lighting system. The new K900 is the first car in the world to incorporate an ambient lighting system developed in partnership with the Pantone Color Institute, the global authority on colour. Customizable on the move, the subtle ambient lighting floods the interior in one of seven colours, jointly developed by Kia and the Pantone Colour Institute.

Drivers can also choose from 64 unique settings to adapt light levels throughout the car. Harmonising with the cabin’s design, the glow of the lights creates a truly contemporary ambience while providing stability and rest for K900 occupants.