To the delight of lovers of “longer” sedans, a new, fourth generation has appeared in Russian showrooms since February last year. The design of the car, which came from the pen of the tireless Peter Schreyer, was to the taste of our compatriots, as evidenced by the impressive results. In January-September of the current year, 8,680 people chose Optima - and this, for a second, is twice as many as in the three quarters of 2016, when only 4,283 cars were sold.
Cars of this class are purchased, of course, not by Rockefellers, but at least by people with above-average income. This is if you don’t take into account those characters who are ready to eat “doshirak” for years, just so that the neighbors will choke on saliva, looking at them. Therefore, it is natural that the Optima has a spectacular appearance, spacious salon and a fairly powerful engine.
To be honest, I also liked the exterior of Schreyer’s brainchild. He is at the same time aggressive, strict and modern - although, in principle, the same can be safely said about any of his classmates. But still, there is also something very extraordinary about the “Korean”, which makes him stand out against the background. It is not without reason that the elegantly sporty, expressively outlined silhouette of the Optima passing by evokes admiring glances among casual onlookers.
I didn’t find any flaws in the interior either. A sedan in the GT Line configuration - and I had a car with exactly this configuration on a test drive - can boast dashboard with a 4.3-inch display, a flattened steering wheel rim and selector, trimmed with pleasant-to-touch leather, steering wheel-mounted gearshift paddles and multimedia system, easy to communicate with on an intuitive level. In a word, the interior is laconic and refined as much as is typical only for the “Germans”.
Romance lovers will definitely like it a roof with a panoramic view with an electric sunroof, decorative aluminum inserts, seats with contrasting stitching and interior lighting. They will appreciate the decor and, I have no doubt.
Music lovers will no doubt be delighted by the premium Harman/Kardon audio system with ten speakers, a subwoofer and an external amplifier. However, it’s more likely not even music lovers, but regulars of nightclubs - it hits your ears so much that at least throw a party, fortunately spacious interior will allow you to invite a considerable number of friends, curtains on rear windows they will take care of privacy, and heating of all seats will help out if you suddenly run out of strong drinks on a cold winter evening.
“Optima” will not disappoint those who consider themselves a real driver, enjoying every minute spent behind the wheel. Of course, it’s hard to expect beastly power from a 2.4-liter engine with 188 horsepower, but in tandem with a six-speed automatic transmission he still knows how to give pleasure. However, let's not forget: our “Korean” is a sedan designed for an imposing driving style. Naturally, it’s not forbidden to try to drive with all your heart on an empty track, but don’t count on any incredible sensations from these exercises. Everything is within the expected limits.
Someone might notice what to call KIA Optima practical is possible only with great reserve. Well, it's hard to argue. With a ground clearance of 155 mm, you can’t even reach the lungs without your heart sinking and your eyes twitching. Average consumption fuel, which is officially declared at the level of 8.3 l/100 km, but in fact exceeds 12 liters, will only ruin the aforementioned “doshirakov” eater, but it will also unpleasantly surprise a wealthy gentleman. Problems will certainly arise in a cramped urban space - a “ship” with a length of 4855, a width of 1860 and a height of 1485 mm will not fit everywhere. And how attractive this car is in the eyes of car thieves... But again, the listed disadvantages are a feature of the class.
*marketing rate, achieved by reducing the maximum resale price for a car in the amount of 40,000 rubles. Annual value interest rate in the client’s loan agreement - 10.8% on the loan product “Indirect Classic KIA on credit” when purchasing a new one KIA car Optima costing RUB 1,349,900. at official dealers KIA. The loan is provided by Rusfinance Bank LLC (hereinafter referred to as the Bank) General license of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation No. 1792 dated February 13, 2013. Down payment 635,000 rubles. Loan term 36 months. Loan collateral is collateral for the purchased car. Required condition- registration of CASCO insurance in an insurance company that meets the Bank’s requirements for insurance companies and insurance conditions. The loan is repaid in equal monthly payments (except for the first and last). When repaying a loan through other credit organizations, payment systems, Russian Post, a commission is charged for transferring funds in accordance with the tariffs of the organizations. In case of late payment of interest and repayment of the loan, the borrower is charged a fine of 0.1% of the amount of interest not paid on time and part of the outstanding loan debt for each day of delay. It is assumed that insurance premiums for life and health insurance of the borrower for the entire duration of the loan may be included in the loan amount loan agreement. The offer is for informational purposes only and is not public offer(Article 437 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), valid from 09/01/2019 to 09/30/2019. Conditions and tariffs may be changed by the Bank in unilaterally. For detailed lending conditions, requirements for insurance conditions and requirements for borrowers, please contact managers at official dealerships KIA centers or at
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Drom has already talked more than once about the very successful current generation of the super-popular in our country Toyota Camry. This time we decided to check whether the recently updated Mazda 6, as well as the Kia Optima, can compete with this “sedan of all Rus'”. restyled last year. All cars with 2.4–2.5 l engines, all - Russian production, all in maximum configurations and at a price of about two million rubles.
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One of the main premieres on the Russian market is KIA Optima. For the test, a car was provided in the GT-line configuration with a 2.4 GDI engine producing 188 hp. and a six-speed automatic transmission.
Price 1,589,900 rub.
Not rich automobile premieres the domestic palette of 2016, a huge number of new cars pass our mouths, in principle they will not even be announced for our market. And all the more gratifying are the efforts of the very few companies that remain with us, who are trying their best to help our domestic driver get behind the wheel of decent equipment, thereby improving the quality of life of individual citizens. 
KIA Optima is a car that has finally come to us; it was delayed a little in Kaliningrad, because it is produced there. All last year this car was shown all over the world, the world slowly lusted after it, but
to us this car came in a fairly good price range by today's standards
It is precisely thanks to the fact that it is produced in Kaliningrad - that is, this is our Russian car, that we can be proud of the fact that we have put our own internal Zhiguli on both shoulder blades. 
We don’t have a twenty-fourth Volga - we have a KIA Optima. The main advantage of which is that it not only exists with us, it decorates our lives. This car was made primarily in an aesthetic impulse, this is exactly the pinnacle of the work, well, probably one of the pinnacles, this is such a two-headed Elbrus,
one of the pinnacles of the work of the design team of Peter Schreyer,
when a body, instructed by the talent of this person, is put on top of a very good, technically thought-out chassis.
The car, flowing into the stream, decorates the street. There are quite a lot of faceless cars driving around there. There are cars that you can't love for their looks, although they have beautiful cleanliness. technical advances, well, if you look, for example, at Chevrolet Cobalt, a car ruined by its appearance, a car so repulsively not beautiful, it can’t even be called faceless.
You look at her and you want to cry, gently pressing her to your chest.
At the same time, the car is cool, awesome, it has an amazing engine that cannot be killed.
But the car does not have any particularly serious desire and prospects, even when it comes to us under the guise of Ravon, precisely because of its appearance, well, they miscalculated, they bet on the wrong people. In the end, they were counting on the Brazilians, and then there are the Papuans in the pampas, they have slightly different aesthetic worldviews.
The Koreans took a different path in this regard - they trusted, probably for the first time, they seriously entrusted the fate of their corporation to a foreigner. The foreigner turned out to be extremely honest. When, for example, the guys from SsangYong made such attempts and bowed to the British, they received parodies of cars, such as the SsangYong Musso, or for example the Kyron. This is a job that requires you to tear your hands off. Moreover, before these hands are torn off, you can even tear up the diploma so that you can put it somewhere in some natural hole.
There the Koreans believed - they were deceived, here the Koreans believed - they were not deceived. AND
Peter Schreyer made the company KIA Hyundai number one player in the major leagues, primarily because he relied on beauty.
Koreans believed that this the right way, it’s not that they didn’t lose – today they are just on their way to that very coveted first place. And KIA Optima is an extremely serious player here, and therefore the Koreans did not seriously take it away from the aesthetics that were declared by the first model, the first generation of this car. And, from my point of view, this is the same car, it’s just a restyling. Nothing that makes it look like a completely new car. 
From the point of view of the Koreans, this is a radically new car, because they went deep into power structure body They increased the share of high-strength steels by 51%, which we won’t know until we try a KamAZ truck or an oncoming telegraph pole. God forbid we never find out about this.
But the quantity internal changes Such is the case with this car that it is now rightfully considered, in terms of internal merology, to be completely new.
What I’m talking about, despite the fact that we still work on the radio, can be seen. San Sanych Pikulenko and I have a special
site site, and here right on the first page is a test drive of the KIA Optima, both photos and videos.
Well, this is an archival site that contains a collection of our exploits with San Sanych, leading to glory. And here are just all these pictures, giving you the opportunity to look there with one eye, stick to the radio with one ear and get some stereoscopic perception of this model. KIA Optima current 2016 for you and me model year– you need to try it twice. 
The first time you approach her - what a beauty. This precision of lines is mastery, when there seems to be nothing new, everything is the same. But, firstly, this is a different car, and secondly, every touch is created so appropriately, so skillfully that the whole image can be broken down into individual parts and admire the headlight, door handle, a mirror, the bend of a wing, can be perceived as a whole.
The car enters the traffic - the street becomes more beautiful.
Next to them are, for example, wretched Cobalts, and completely indifferent Zhigulis, created by the hand of not even a master, but an exile, a man who was driven away in disgrace with Volvo, and then sheltered by our country, I mean Steve Mattin. And then this beauty appears - KIA Optima. For those who are an esthete, this is an unconditional victory, because such a car should be taken only out of respect for beauty. You make the world more beautiful, the world becomes more beautiful around you, and you ride in that shell that decorates the street.
Three engines. From previous generation, in Latin this sounds especially good, for those who have not yet forgotten the school Latin course or the university one - generation of engines Nu (NU). This is a two-liter, 150 Horse power, very good motor.
But there are two more interesting ones, which KIA actually relies on:
this is the so-called GDI, also known as GDI, for those who “yes of course” learned Runglish at school.
GDI, that is, direct injection, is very interesting motor. After all, the Japanese, who were the first to start with it - Mitsubishi, are now dying online before our eyes. It’s a pity for Mitsubishi, it was an innovator, it was the first to do a lot of things on planet Earth, including putting this engine on mass production, and there were a lot of comments. 
Koreans, who are brilliant students, people who can generalize other people's experience and, starting from it, go further, which, by the way, many nations cannot - generalize, generalize, study, study, are still poor students, these are just excellent students. Taking the system of direct GDI injection, they led her to the fact that today
We got a 2.4 engine with a power of 188 horsepower, which works not only well, but also on our Orthodox 92 gasoline.
Which is extremely cool, since the combination with fuel consumption of about nine liters is an excellent indicator.
After all, the first GDI - they were very demanding on fuel, it was necessary, firstly, sterile, and secondly, preferably not even 98, but somewhere like 116 fuel, well, if not, then at least 130, well, 200, if It’s possible, oh, no – okay, what do you have left in the trash here, pour it in – oh, sorry, I think I’m dead. This doesn't happen here. 
And on this KIA Optima, taken for a test drive, I drove through different parts of our country, including where good gasoline didn’t even hear, despite the fact that “listen, I’ll fill it up for myself, this fuel is good, I even have balloon flies"
The machine also digests this slop, and it’s not for nothing that it was adapted in Kaliningrad to our reality.
Picking her up and ground clearance and adapting, including to our unbearable gasoline.
Koreans in general, and they and some Japanese companies, have adopted a similar adaptation, when they work very seriously on the quality of Russian reality. The KIA Optima - in addition to its beauty and amazing engine - also has a very good alliance with a six-speed automatic transmission. Well, for those modest aesthetes who are going to start driving this car in its original configuration for exactly a million rubles, well, with a few shameful pennies, they get a manual. The mechanics are good, clear, but the six-speed automatic is great, and as always, what is the main task facing engine engineers on planet Earth today? Ecology?
No, ecology is a paper game, in order to deceive America, in order to deceive Japan. Now, based on the results of Dieselgate, we see how a blast wave, a tsunami, in fact, is covering Japan. There Mitsubishi has already burned down, now Suzuki is being seized upon - this is all just a reflection on the American scenario. But in reality, the most important thing for everyone is fuel economy.
This is the fuel consumption when the six-speed automatic is working, constantly striving to go into upper gears in combination with the 2.4 direct injection engine - they work so interestingly, so harmoniously that, in principle, there is no situation of insufficiency. I arrived, I received this normal linearly predictable acceleration, with which, in fact, you are accustomed to perceive these high-quality and well-thought-out products. You know that it should be like this, that is, you don’t think: it will work - it won’t work, it will have time - it won’t have time, it will be able to - it won’t be able to. Yes, of course, but what questions? You, listen, master, you step on me, I’ll go.
AND electric amplifier steering wheel But here I am, because after all, it’s not digital, but analog - it’s easier for me when it’s not electricity that’s pulsating there, but normal oil, and I understand the reactive force, here is the return force - when I know the zero position, the angles of rotation, there is a special electronic prompt here.
When you start the engine, a pictogram flashes on the panel, showing how far and where exactly the wheels are turned.
Because, well, you never know, suddenly you’re blonde, you forgot the way, you parked on a stump, ran over a cat and stepped on the cleaning lady’s mop, so your wheels are twisted unnaturally, you’re about to step on the pedal and trample on the wiper. For what? Here's a reminder that, look, your wheels are turned. Just when the steering is electrified, this is normal. 
The other side of the coin is
constant effort, when even the blonde behind the wheel of this car controls perfectly with her left hand,
pressing all the iPhone buttons with her right, entering the low-Earth orbit of Internet communications, and she does not have to strain and somehow try to steer something with one hand. With your finger, with your little finger, you touch the steering wheel, with your little finger it is completely normal, it obeys your command and goes where it needs to go. Good brakes though. This is normal practice when, on almost any tire, you step on the pedal, and the car stops adequately, without pulling to the side, as intended. 
Well, 4.8 meters long, 510 liters of trunk. The salon is designed in such a way that despite my short stature, I’m generally very small by nature, I’m about eighty-two meters, now this is already below average, because the average one is already somewhere in the near-Earth orbit, I fit in the back myself behind me, I have a margin over my knees, my lush hair does not rest against the ceiling, even if it is lowered by the width of the hatch. The sunroof is, yes, interesting, especially the glass roof, and in the GT-Line configuration, this is an imitation of GT, when you have a sporty appearance, but the essence is not so combative.
Because right next to the configuration itself, here is the top one top-end configuration GT, it's there
GDI engine, that is, with direct injection, two-liter, turbocharged - well, this is, of course, a beast.
This is an animal that is constantly rushing, which is rushing somewhere, which drags you along with it and says: come on, come on, come on, come on, keep up with me, I’m in a hurry with all my might. 
And the GT-Line is the same beauty, red stitching on the leather, you have the GT-Line logo on the steering wheel, the seats have the right perforations. Is there some amount of tar in this barrel of impeccable honey? But what? The car has a mileage of five thousand, and from the worn buttons it is already clear which functions were most in demand previous generations journalists, what they poked and what they didn’t poke. I have never seen such a disgrace on any car, there has never been anything like it.
Even on a Zhiguli, the buttons do not wear out after five thousand kilometers.
You grab the steering wheel and run your fingers, delicate journalistic fingers, onto the roughest seam with burrs of red stitching along the inner radius of the steering wheel. That is
We used to break in our boots, but now we have to break in our handlebars.
Somehow they will more or less get used to it, get used to it, and it will become easier and simpler.
