Kia Picanto

In the presentation of its new car, Picanto, Kia insisted on illuminating the origin of the name, of the French piquant, or spicy. That could give the idea of a car with sporting proposal, but Picanto, with its motor 1,1-litro, doesn't follow that line. Its spicy aspect refers more to the eight available colors, some very strong and daring ones, to the finish, excellent, with great construction, and to the price, quite competitive. For R$ 34,9 thousand, the car brings metallic painting, fog lights, hydraulic direction, glasses, restraints and electric retrovisores, air conditioning, play-cd with MP3, wheels of light league of 14 inches (with tires 165/60) and, for R$ 5.000 the plus, automatic exchange. All this with five year-old warranty. The spicy, therefore, he/she says respect to the competition.
When somebody refers to Picanto as car is not expression force. He is, really, the smallest car for sale in the Brazilian market, with 3,50 m. Only to compare, him Ford Ka has 3,62 m, 12 cm the plus, although the trunks of both have close sizes: while the one of Picanto has 157 l, the one of Ka behaves 186 l. That par excellence turns it an urban car, with the advantage of counting with four doors, non available option for the competitor done by Ford. Far away from being a problem, the reduced size it is something wanted by a lot of people, that want an agile vehicle in the traffic and small enough to fit in any he/she wanders.
Another of its advantages in relation to the competitors is the motor 1,1-litro. The cylinder capacity, not very adult than the one of national models, is not reflected in more potency, on the contrary: with 64 cv to 5.500 rpm, he is more modest than Fiat Fire (65 cv with gasoline), that Volkswagen EA-111 (72 cv, also with derived him of petroleum) and that Chevrolet VHC (77 cv, with gasoline, in the most potent version, used in Corsa).

The big taken out it is that potency, for who walks with the car in the city, is not reflected in any practical benefit, what turns that argument type a mere marketing strategy. Torque, for its time, is of fundamental importance, since it guarantees faster answers and more agile traffic light exits, for example. In that inquiry, Picanto counts with the motor of larger torque among its competitors. They are 9,9 kgm. Besides the maximum torque to have to be loud, he also has to appear in low rotations. In Picanto, he appears to 2.800 rpm. Who arrives close it is the EA-111, that it presents, with alcohol, 9,8 kgm, but the high 4.300 rpm.
The good motor would be still more beneficiary if the model had I weigh low. And he/she has. Picanto weighs 890 kg with manual exchange and 910 kg with the automatic. WebMotors had the chance of testing the two versions, that bring, as only differences, the system of remote control of the doors in the key and airbag as exclusiveness of the automatic version.
The evaluation course, of just 4 km, it was in a whole interesting way for bringing curves in drop and in high-speed, ascents, gone down and straight line. They were necessary, see the reader, the hills that usually meets in the cities. That because Picanto is low, but he/she has a wheel in each point of the chassis. Theoretically that can aid him to face those villainous ones better, still worse when they are irregular, but it was not possible to evaluate that subject in the itinerary chosen by Kia.
With short entreeixos, of just 2,37 m, and little height in relation to the soil, Picanto makes curves closed with easiness and he/she has excellent esterço ray. When he/she leaves, of front, he behaves in an exemplary way. When it is heard the tire sing, for example, that happens in the four wheels, not in an alone one, a demonstration of the great equiilíbrio of the coreaninho. It facilitates, for that, the hydraulic direction, with three windowsill turns to windowsill. The escalonamento of marches, in the manual version, is necessary: nor you tan too much, making the motor to scream the whole, nor long time in exaggeration, removing of its car answer capacity and of maintenance of the speed, especially in ascents and with the loaded car.
In the automatic version, the four marches sit down not very the lack of more a companion, one Thursday that could help the car to use its motor better. With two people on board, he sits down a little more, especially because the first march is longer (he/she needs to be). The subject is that that car, as all the others used in the cities, he/she will just walk most of the time with its driver. So much is as soon as, in some great metropolises, there are roads reserved for cars that circulate with more than a person as option to decrease the traffic. Only with the driver, the automatic version of Picanto it proceeds very well. When he/she needs more force, it is enough to step strong in the accelerator and to work the kick-down for the car to go auspiciously without difficulties.
The one that more impresses in Picanto is its good finish. There is not rebarbas of plastic and the pieces have a pleasant touch, of plastics of high quality. There is also fabric coating in the doors. In movement, it is not heard suspension noises, in fact, very common (McPherson in the front and torsion bar in the back), nor the noise of the motor. It proves that the torque is fundamental it is that Picanto reaches the 110 km/h not very more than 3.000 rpm the (him bill-turns are going up to 8.000 rpm). The exchange, in this case, didn't need to be exaggeratedly shortened for the car to move.
The commands and the position of driving healthy very good, even for tall drivers. For being a car of high roof, Picanto it accommodates its passengers well. A passenger of 1,80 m, behind a driver of same height, will feel a little the space lack for the legs, but not for the head. If the driver goes smaller, or vice-versa, everybody will travel without complaints or desconfortos.
In terms of prices, the R$ 34,9 thousand could be salted, but we see the competition. With less series items that Picanto, Celtic Chevrolet Super 1.0 FlexPower costs R$ 33.703; Fiat Palliates Fire Flex, also without the same package, he/she leaves for R$ 32.802; already VW Fox Plus, with the same items, is sold by R$ 45.039.

None of the three competitors offers automatic exchange as option, but everybody has a more generous trunk, what should be taken into account for who to need of space for suitcases or he/she has the habit of traveling. None of the national ones, in a whole way, has five year-old warranty, an encouragement for who resists to buy cars of Kia. Controlled by the group Gandini, the mark was already reiterated demonstrations that came to Brazil to be. It is worth to remind that the warranty being worth for who it follows the scheduled revisions strictly continues only.
In what he/she refers I hold it, Picanto didn't still have values cotados, but the line Kia, except for the Beast, that has index of high sinistralidade, is of less than 5% of the total value of the car. For Picanto, therefore, wait an insurance in the house of the R$ 1.500 the R$ 2.000 real.

For those and another are that the new compact it can worry the competition. For Kia, Picanto in the eyes of the others will be refreshment.