Kia Opirus confirmed as next Amanti - SRT Forums

hemidakota · 08-07-2006, 12:36 PM

Kia Opirus confirmed as next Amanti

Posted Aug 6th 2006 2:38PM by Joel Arellano

AUTOBLOG NEWS - - Remember our post about the revised Kia Opirus? The sedan, which is sold in North America as the Kia Amanti, will be arriving in the U.S. some time next year. According to senior vice president Jean-Charles Lievens of Kia Motors Europe, the 2007 Opirus/Amanti will make its debut at the Paris Motor Show this September.

Besides its heavily revised interior and exterior, Kia's flagship will boast a new all-aluminum, 3.8-liter, 266 horsepower engine,

replacing the current 200 horsepower one. It's too early to tell what the price may be, though speculation is around $30K, a new high for the Korean automaker.

[Source: Edmunds]

dommo_g · 08-07-2006, 12:51 PM

Why can't the Korean automakers come up with any decent names for their cars?

FastSpecV · 08-07-2006, 02:29 PM

After test driving a Amanti I fell in love with it. For the price you get a lot. The only thing I didn't like was the performance. It was a big time slug

suzq044 · 08-07-2006, 03:39 PM

i like 'amanti' better.. but it looks like a benz rip-off with a jaguar ass.

jakez · 08-07-2006, 04:53 PM

Why would they drop the Amanti name, just the name sounds like a million bucks IMO.

dommo_g · 08-07-2006, 10:34 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by jakez

Why would they drop the Amanti name, just the name sounds like a million bucks IMO.

That's what I'm thinking. The name "Opirus" just plain sucks. How do you even pronounce that? Long "I", short "I", accent on the 2nd or 1st syllable??? When I first heard of "Amanti" I thought that was kinda gay also, but now it's not so bad. Better than "Neon" I guess.