2025 Kia K4 Sedan First Look: This Is Kia’s All-New Small, Cheap Car

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Kia has totally reinvented its compact sedan and renamed it the K4 going forward, but is it trying too hard?

likely wouldn't be making a return to the U.S. anytime soon, but we were reassured by the Korean automaker that it would have something for those shoppers this year with a successor to the compact Kia Forte sedan. Now, Kia has fully revealed the interior and exterior design of that combined Rio and Forte replacement, the.

Kia has labeled the exterior design approach as "Twist Logic," which is said to create "a modern and unique body shape by twisting the connections of logically aligned squares in a seemingly illogical fashion." The profile reveals a four-door sedan with fastback styling which contrasts with the current, two-box setup of the Forte.

Hopefully the seemingly luxurious execution of the new Kia K4's design doesn't creep the price up too much. The outgoing Kia Forte LX entry-level trim starts at $21,145 making 147 hp & 132 lb-ft of torque from a 2.0-liter four-cylinder gas engine good for 30 mpg city, 41 mpg highway, and 34 mpg combined . It's unclear which powertrain to expect under the new K4 sedan, but we'd guess gas or maybe hybrid power at best.

 

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