The Kia Cub is a 5-door hatchback from Kia, built from 2013, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 1.6 . Peter Schreyer drew it.
How it came about
The Kia Cub (stylized CUB) is a 5-door subcompact hot hatch concept revealed by South Korean automobile manufacturer Kia Motors at the 2013 Seoul Motor Show.
The hardware
Power comes from 1.6 . It shifts through a 6-speed manual. The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Infiniti Q50, the Tesla Model X, the Mazda CX-5 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Kia stablemates include the Kia K5 (Optima) and the Kia Magentis.