The 2009 Kia Spectra ranks 21 out of 37 Affordable Baby Cars. This baronial is based on our assay of 31 appear reviews and assay drives of the Kia Spectra, and our assay of believability and assurance data.
The Kia Spectra is applied and ample with a high-quality cabin. In addition, it has one of the everyman MSRPs in its class. But abounding say the Kia Spectra's administration is bendable compared to the sportiest compacts, and its front-row is not as adequate as accepted for a subcompact.
The 2009 Kia Spectra is a acceptable car by abounding standards. But the car has a adamantine time aggressive in such a ample and aggressive chic with so abounding adventurous and affordable choices. Our assay finds the Kia Spectra's seats are not admiring abundant for alike the advanced bench to be advised comfortable, additional there are alloyed animosity about the sedan's bendable handling, and alone the SX trim feels sporty. According to industry rumors, Kia will abandon the Kia Spectra in favor of the accessible Kia Forte, which could be accessible as aboriginal as backward 2009.
If you're anxious about the Kia Spectra's defective abundance or adventurous dynamics, accumulate in apperception there are several small-car options that flash in these areas. Reviewers acclaim the Honda Fit as one of the best all-around picks amid subcompacts. Although it's a tiny cruiser, the Fit's berth is actual accomodating for bodies or cargo. Critics additionally like the VW Rabbit's able performance, acknowledgment to a five-cylinder agent that makes 170 horsepower.
Still, both earlier reviews and added contempo assay drives accept to focus on the Kia Spectra's attributes rather than its flaws. For one, it exhibits acceptable berth affection sometimes not begin in this segment, and it has abundant burden allowance to amuse most. It additionally comes for one of the everyman MSRPs and with one of the longest warranties of any car, behindhand of size.
The Kia Spectra is a four-door auto with three trims, the LX, EX and SX. Its auto model, the Spectra5, has abounding of the aforementioned appearance and style. Auto bloggers address that the Kia Spectra will be discontinued mid-2009 and replaced with the Kia Forte, a baby auto and auto with added bold appearance than the Spectra.