OREANDA-NEWS. Russian dealers began sales of the updated KIA Soul of 2016 model year, the production of which is established in the Kaliningrad plant "Avtotor." Prices for new product start from 829,900 rubles.

The car will be available in eight trim levels with two different gasoline engines 1.6-liter: with the distributed injection (124 HP) or with direct injection (GDI, 132 HP). For KIA Soul 2016 model year it is also offered two options Transmission - 6-speed manual or 6-speed automatic, informed the press service of KIA Motors Rus. As noted, with the working volume of the surviving 1591 cc, the new engine 1,6 GDI became more powerful by 6%, its power is now 132 HP and torque - 161 Nm. In conjunction with the new engine it was improved the accelerating dynamics (up to 100 km / h the car is now accelerated by 0.8 seconds faster) and efficiency (fuel consumption in the combined cycle, down by 4%)