PRICE : For 2014 Kia Cadenza $35,100
The 2014 Cadenza, Kia's all-new entry-level luxury car, makes a lot of proficient offset impressions. The outside styling is handsome, the interior is good designed, the criterion V6 engine is powerful, the six-speed automatic transmission is polish together with responsive, together with the ride is tranquillity together with supple.And at nether $42,000 for a fully-equipped version, the Cadeza is really competitive against luxury cars costing thousands more.
In fact, in that location are only a few shortcomings worth noting. The offset is the name, which is besides easily confused amongst a slice of furniture. Both Kia together with is corporate sibling Hyundai are having a difficult fourth dimension coming upward amongst proficient names for their larger cars. The Cadenza is mechanically similar to the Hyundai Azera. Kia's largest model is the all-new K900, piece Hyundai has named theirs the Eqqus. Go figure.
And together with then in that location is the lack of optional engines. Unlike some competitors, in that location are no V8 or hybrid powerfulness plants available. This would live a much bigger employment if the 3.3-liter Gas Direct Injection engine wasn't so good, but it mightiness drive some potential buyers to banking concern jibe out what others have got to offer.But walking away from the Cadenza for such reasons would live a large mistake. Put simply, Kia has done an first-class labor amongst its offset affordable luxury machine since the Amanti went out of production inwards 2011.
When Kia together with Hyundai decided to pace upward their game a few years ago, they didn't kid around. Both adopted striking outside stylings, greatly improved the blueprint together with character of their interiors, added advanced technologies every bit criterion equipment, together with came upward amongst engines that offering to a greater extent than powerfulness together with meliorate fuel economy. All Kia cars except the youth-oriented Soul are similarly styled amongst aggressive front end ends together with abrupt angles. The Cadenza looks similar a beefed-up version of the Optima, the company's pop midsize sedan.
The interior is also upgraded, amongst similar easy-to-use controls but fifty-fifty meliorate materials. The enterainment/navigation arrangement was top-notch, amongst a parent sentiment photographic telly camera that provides a panoramic facial expression at what's behind the machine when the shift lever is inwards reverse. Our bear witness model was equipped amongst a luxury bundle that included heated together with cooled front end seats, heated parent seats, a heated steering bike together with a panoramic roof amongst powerfulness Sun shades. It also came amongst a engineering scientific discipline bundle that included multiple security warning systems. The packages pushed the cost upward to almost $42,000, which is really reasonable, considering the character together with extensive features.
On the road, the Cadenza was both quick together with proficient handling. During my offset drive, I assumed the machine had been topographic point into the Sport way because the powerfulness develop was so responsive. Only after failing to expose a clitoris for an Eco or Normal way did I realize this is how the machine is designed to perform out of the box. H5N1 manual shift way provides for e'er faster acceleration past times allowing the driver to (of course) shift the transmission manually amongst either the shift lever or steering wheel-mounted paddle shifters.
The ride is a picayune on the line of piece of work solid side, which should delight enthusiasts. It is non so difficult that speed bumps or broken pavement is a problem. That was the instance fifty-fifty though our bear witness machine came amongst optional 19-inch wheels together with lower-profile tires, a combination that has proven tedious inwards some other cars.
Rear topographic point room is generous, allowing iii adults to ride inwards comfort on moderate trips. And the body is enormous, rivaling those inwards cars that facial expression larger. The combination should easily accommodate long household unit of measurement vacations, which is i of the reasons purchase larger cars inwards the offset place.
Although the Cadenza has precisely been introduced, Kia volition presently live bringing out an fifty-fifty larger machine every bit its flagship model, all-new K900. It comes criterion amongst a to a greater extent than powerful 3.8-liter V6 together with volition offering a 5.0-liter V8 for those who demand that inwards their large luxury cars. Personally, nosotros wouldn't live surprised is many potential K900 customers don't halt upward buying Cadenzas instead. It's that good.
EXTERIOR
When viewed from the side, it’s pretty slow to distinguish Cadenza’s imposing long nose, the long hood together with lots of gracefully sculpted lines running from the front-door cutline together with going downwards to the taillights. The side also features numerous chrome accents at the lower portions of the doors together with the outside mirrors.
At the rear, the Cadenza receives criterion LED taillights together with a novel exhaust arrangement amongst twin oval tail pipes.
INTERIOR
Elegant woods together with chrome trim accent the Cadenza's soft leather upholstery without screaming "bling." The optic console is angled toward the driver for improved access together with ergonomics, piece buttons for the cruise control, infotainment together with Bluetooth hands-free are integrated into the steering bike to heighten ease of operation. And, every bit inwards other Kia vehicles, the Cadenza's voice-activation arrangement is i of the most accurate available.
Likewise, the Infinity sound system, which includes 12 speakers powered past times 550 watts, performs meliorate than many "premium" stereo options. The infotainment arrangement provides music from almost every rootage available — AM, FM, CD/MP3, SiriusXM satellite radio, Bluetooth streaming together with a USB port together with auxiliary input jack for portables — together with also includes a navigation arrangement amongst SiriusXM Traffic.
This is all controlled through an 8-inch touch-screen display inwards the optic of the dash that's intuitive together with slow to use. And piece Kia's UVO eServices provides features such every bit automatic crash notification together with vehicle diagnostics, it doesn't have got the attain of connected services compared to other cutting-edge systems from competitors. (And non fifty-fifty i unmarried app.) But y'all can't crunch the price: gratuitous throughout the warranty period.
Something drivers may non notice at offset because it's non nowadays within the Cadenza is noise. The car's hushed interior is due inwards business office to the role of high-tensile steel for sixty per centum of the body structure, which reduces overall vehicle weight together with enhances security since it's stronger than traditional steel. Kia also employs noise-reducing technologies ranging from triple door seals to specially designed wheels amongst multiple fins that assist lessen current of air dissonance at highway speeds for an interior that achieves luxury-class quiet. Our only existent knock against the interior is a lack of parent headroom.
SPECIFICATION
► Make:Kia
► Model:Cadenza
► Price$35100
► Engine:V6
► Transmission:Six-Speed Automatic
► Horsepower @ RPM:293 @ 6400
► MPG(Cty):19
► MPG(Hwy):28
► Torque @ RPM:255 @ 5200
► Displacement:3.3 L
► 0-60 time:6.9 sec. (Est.)
► Top Speed:130 mph (Est.)
FEATURES & TECHNOLOGY
Offered inwards i opulently equipped trim level, the Kia Cadenza takes in-car engineering scientific discipline together with premium features to an exclusively novel level. Standard features include an advanced navigation arrangement amongst SiriusXM Traffic™ together with UVO eServices, displayed on a high resolution 8-inch touching screen. Further enhancing driver assurance is a criterion back-up photographic telly camera together with warning system, every bit good every bit a premium 550-watt Infinity® 12-speaker sound arrangement including parent surroundings speakers together with subwoofer. The Kia Cadenza's criterion equipment flat is on par amongst many premium brands together with boasts criterion leather topographic point trim, dual-zone automatic climate command amongst parent topographic point ventilation, Smart Key keyless entry amongst push-button start, 10-way powerfulness adjustable driver's topographic point together with Bluetooth® wireless technology. Two choice packages are offered: The Premium Package together with the Technology Package.
Check the box for the Premium Package together with have a full-length panoramic sunroof amongst powerfulness retractable sunshade, HID headlamps amongst adaptive front end lighting arrangement (AFLS), 7-inch TFT LCD musical instrument cluster, premium Nappa leather seats, a retentivity enabled 12-way ventilated driver's topographic point amongst topographic point cushion extension for unsurpassed comfort, heated front end together with parent outboard seats, heated steering bike amongst powerfulness contestation together with telescoping steering column, every bit good every bit a powerfulness parent sunshade for enhanced comfort together with privacy.
Stepping upward to the Technology Package adds sleek 19-inch alloy wheels, electrical parking brake together with Advanced Smart Cruise Control (ASCC), which maintains a laid distance to the vehicle ahead together with tin john convey the machine to a total halt if necessary. The bundle also includes H2O repellant hydrophobic windshield, a radar-based Blind Spot Detection arrangement (BSD) together with a Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS) that provides audible together with visual alerts to the driver should they inadvertently veer into some other lane without using the plough signal.
COMFORT & QUALITY
Choose a large sedan similar the 2014 Kia Cadenza, that's non overtly a sport sedan, together with y'all mightiness hold back the ride character to live pillowy, almost queasy. As amongst many of the latest entries inwards this class, that's no longer the case; the Cadenza has top-notch interior comfort, without those boat-like old-fashioned big-car motions. It's also luxury-car tranquillity inside.
And if you've owned High German luxury sedans inwards the past, don't hold back to live stepping downwards inwards comfort-related items. When optioned upward amongst the Luxury Package, you'll expose a driver's topographic point thigh extension (quite the improvement for taller drivers on longer highway trips) plus a heated steering wheel, ventilated front end seats, together with fifty-fifty heated parent seats.
The seats themselves are on the soft side, together with piece some mightiness prefer a picayune to a greater extent than firmness, peculiarly for their back, these there's lots of legroom, together with the driving topographic point should live non bad for a broad attain of sizes. In back, too, there's plenty legroom—even for long-legger riders over 6 feet tall, behind other 6 footers.
Unfortunately, those tall riders won't live comfortable inwards dorsum if you've opted for the two-panel panoramic sunroof system, which is included amongst the Luxury Package (mandatory for every other option, similar the Tech Package together with its smart cruise command together with other active safety). You'll demand to duck a fleck when getting in, because of the downward-sloping roofline. But the existent surprise comes inside, where y'all lose what nosotros guess to live several inches of headroom to the dorsum housing of the roof system. There are ii scooped-out areas inwards the headliner for outboard riders, but you'll demand to hunch forward. The other thing is that if you're on a curvy road, concord on; the front end seats are quite soft, together with they render nothing lateral support, really, together with if you're going around tight corners.
The Cadenza is a really quiet-riding sedan, amongst almost no current of air noise, together with really picayune route noise, at highway speeds—all amongst proficient aerodynamics, a tight structure, together with smart application of noise-blanketing, rather than stopgap measures similar active dissonance cancellation.
Materials are really impressive throughout the cabin. The ventilated Nappa leather seats that are included amongst the Luxury Package are every bit soft together with supple every bit you'll expose inwards $60k luxury rides.
Just every bit inwards other Kia models, there's no shortage of existent physical buttons here—something nosotros like, actually, together with betwixt decent phonation control, those difficult buttons, together with the touching screen, there's a proficient flat of redundancy that allows y'all to really practise it your ain way....SEE ALL PHOTOS
ENGINE
Under the novel Cadenza’s hood, Kia installed the most powerful V-6 engine it’s e'er offered, a 3.3-liter version amongst an output of 293 horsepower at 6,400 rpm together with 255 pound-feet of torque at 5,200 rpm. The engine features technologies similar straightaway injection (GDI), dual continuously variable valve timing for improved fuel economic scheme together with performance, a maintenance-free timing chain, together with a three-step variable induction arrangement for enhanced torque.
The engine is mated to a six-speed automatic transmission equipped amongst a Sportmatic manual shift way together with paddle shifters flanking the leather. All the powerfulness is sent to the front end wheels.
As criterion features, the model is equipped amongst a sport-tuned fully independent pause amongst a McPherson strut setup inwards front end together with a multilink parent design, together with a High Tensile Steel (HTS) arrangement which helps improve torsional rigidity.
DRIVETRAIN
The Kia Cadenza is equipped amongst Kia's most powerful V6 engine ever. The smooth-revving 3.3-liter utilizes gasoline straightaway injection (GDI) engineering scientific discipline that improves performance piece maintaining fuel efficiency. Power is seamlessly transferred to the front end wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission that includes a Sportmatic manual shift way together with paddle shifters flanking the leather together with wood-wrapped steering wheel. The GDI powerplant produces 293 horsepower at 6,400 rpm together with 255 lb.-ft. of torque at 5,200 rpm. The advanced all-aluminum engine features dual continuously variable valve timing for improved fuel economic scheme together with performance, a maintenance-free timing chain, a three-step variable induction arrangement for enhanced torque, together with is designed to run on regular unleaded gasoline. During durability testing, the engine is run 300 continuous hours at redline nether total charge together with then for an additional xx hours at 10 per centum higher upward redline nether total load.
To maximize driver engagement together with performance, the Cadenza features a sport-tuned fully independent pause amongst a McPherson strut setup inwards front end together with a multilink parent design. The Kia Cadenza rides on criterion 245/45R-18 tires piece 245/40R-19 tires are included amongst the Technology Package.
To farther heighten performance together with safety, piece reducing NVH, sixty per centum of the body construction is strengthened through the utilization of High Tensile Steel (HTS), which helps improve torsional rigidity. HTS is produced through a 1,650 flat hot-stamping process, designed to toughen steel. Further reducing the Kia Cadenza's NVH is an extensive listing of dissonance reducing technologies, including a hydraulic transmission mount, optimally tuned damper on the parent cross fellow member together with specially designed wheels (the multiple fins assist cut back current of air dissonance at highway speeds).
PERFORMANCE
Kia makes no grand claims for the Cadenza's performance; together with for those wanting a large sedan that appeals generally on value, comfort, together with style, it's non going to disappoint.
The 2014 Kia Cadenza is relatively quick together with responsive for a machine its size. That said, those who desire something verging on a sport sedan are going to expose that the Cadenza is missing some of the fine aesthetic nuance that tin john prepare a large, front-wheel-drive sedan rewarding to drive, together with much of that is a affair of steering together with handling.
Power is provided past times a 3.3-liter V-6, making 293 horsepower together with 255 pound-feet. This new-generation, all-aluminum engine is direct-injected, amongst dual continuous variable valve timing, a timing chain, together with three-stage variable induction.
The Cadenza's V-6 doesn't prepare all that much torque at the depression halt of the rev band (Toyota's V-6 inwards the Avalon feels perkier that way), which agency that stepping away from a standing start, or upward a steep hill, experience a fleck to a greater extent than sluggish than you'd guess from its powerfulness output—until the revs build, together with and then y'all rocket ahead. Meanwhile 5th together with 6th gear are quite tall, so the transmission downshifts often on long highway grades, or when but resuming the cruise command from pocket-size drops inwards speed.
There's no sport way for the powertrain or the stability control. There are silent steering-wheel paddle-shifters, plus a manual gate, that permit y'all manually command the gears.
Push the Cadenza (about 3,800 pounds every bit nosotros tested it) difficult into a corner, together with you'll realize chop-chop that this is no sport sedan; the body command is meliorate than some other large sedans, but it has neither the steering experience nor the transition chops to satisfy enthusiasts. Whether inwards steering feel, body control, or full general responsiveness, this is a machine that feels athletic plenty on the twisty sections, provided you're non really expecting to extract the most out of curvy canyon roads or hustling on province dorsum roads. Brakes experience surprisingly strong together with confident, however.
Steering experience is on the lite side, together with piece it loads upward plenty off optic to live helpful, there's really little, if any, experience of the road. It also requires to a greater extent than attending together with pocket-size adjustments than it should at highway cruising speeds; although it adds upward to non bad maneuverability at parking speeds.
ON THE ROAD
There’s only i engine available: a 3.3-liter V6 amongst 293 horsepower together with 255 lb-ft of torque that’s shared amongst the Sorento SUV, together with a six-speed automatic transmission. With its curb weight precisely nether 3,800 lbs, the Cadenza is rated for xix mpg inwards the metropolis together with 28 on the highway, which does seem a picayune thirsty given the engine’s straightaway injection.
2014 kia cadenza 01The engine is powerful enough, sure. It doesn’t snap your cervix – sixty mph comes upward inwards most 7 seconds from a stop, most average inwards the grade – together with the way it goes most its line of piece of work organization is reasonably smooth. But the 3.8 from the Genesis would prepare this a to a greater extent than entertaining ride. It doesn’t demand to hitting the 333-horse flat of the rear-drive Hyundai, but the extra displacement would also render to a greater extent than torque, something the Cadenza could use. The rear-drive Genesis-based Kia K900 flagship that’s coming side past times side twelvemonth volition role it, so perchance Kia’s keen non to have got the Cadenza competing amongst its ain products.
After a few years of making products that are dainty to facial expression at together with own, Kia’s lastly making them proficient to drive. The Cadenza doesn’t present the stiffly-sprung, underdamped conduct of previous efforts, instead it’s a nicely-tuned ride that doesn’t run away screaming if the route gets challenging.
SAFETY
Standard security features on the 2014 Kia Cadenza include antilock disc brakes, traction together with stability control, front end together with parent side airbags, side mantle airbags together with loma start assist. H5N1 rearview photographic telly camera together with parent common assist are standard, piece blind-zone together with lane difference warning systems are optional.
During Edmunds testing, the Cadenza came to a halt from sixty mph inwards 122 feet, an average performance for this class.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the Cadenza its highest possible rating of "Good" inwards its moderate-overlap frontal offset, side touching on together with roof line tests. The Cadenza's seat/head restraint blueprint was also rated "Good" for whiplash protection inwards parent impacts.
FUEL ECONOMY
For its size, the 2014 Kia Azera isn't a peculiarly fuel-efficient vehicle; it's surpassed past times powertrains similar the EcoBoost 4 inwards the Ford Taurus (22/32 mpg), every bit good every bit the hybrid powertrain that delivers twoscore mpg Combined inwards the Toyota Avalon Hybrid.
It's also worth noting that the Hyundai Azera, curiously, gets 20/29 mpg ratings amongst essentially the same engine together with transmission. In a 140-mile drive of the Cadenza nosotros saw most 21 mpg, amongst no passengers aboard, together with most ii thirds of that on the highway together with on rural two-laners; that's within a mpg of what we've observed inwards the Azera.
The Cadenza's fuel economic scheme ratings are precisely xix mpg city, 28 highway. But, every bit Kia notes, the V-6 inwards the Cadenza is designed to run on regular unleaded gasoline.
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