There are USB outlets in both the front and back of the car across all model grades. Both the Si and SLi get gloss black accents.ĭominating the dashboard is a 7.0-inch touchscreen that offers Apple Car Play and Android Auto across the range, although Si and SLi offer native satellite navigation. Adding the sense that the interior is wider than it was is the fact the air vents now run horizontally rather than vertically as on the old model. It’s also more practical with some class leading features, like the sat-nav in the Si and SLi variants, but I’ll come back to this. Like the outside, the inside of the new Rio is straighter (the old model featured a more rounded dash board) and more mature looking. There are seven colours to choose from, although all colours except Clear White attract a $520 premium, and new colour, Mighty Yellow, won’t be available until July production models arrive.Īll up, the new Rio is a more mature looking car than it’s ever been and, if you taped over the badge, could easily be parked next to anything from Europe and fit right in. The rear lights on the SLi (which we tested) are LED. The bonnet, given the car is longer, has been stretched, while at the rear the Rio has a shorter overhang, and a near upright rear windscreen. These models also get U-shapped LED daytime running lights.
The Rio still wears Kia’s distinctive ‘Tiger Nose’ grille but it’s thinner and wider with a gloss black grill cover on the mid- and upper-spec Si and SLi models. The styling for the new Rio was led by Kia’s Californian design team with oversight by the brand’s master of crayons, Peter Schreyer (Schreyer is ex-Audi and responsible for the design revolution of the Kia brand).
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