The Kia Joice is a 5-door station wagon from Kia, built from 1999 to 2002, when airbags, anti-lock brakes and Japanese build quality became the world standard. Under the bonnet: 2.0L 16V I4.
The background
The Kia Joice, or Kia Carstar, is a 7-seat compact MPV produced between 1999 and 2002 by the Korean manufacturer Kia Motors.
The engineering
Power comes from 2.0L 16V I4. It weighs 1325 kg. It shifts through a 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2720 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Kia Carens; assembly was at Ulsan (Hyundai Ulsan Plant), South Korea. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Toyota Yaris, the Honda S2000, the BMW X5 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Kia stablemates include the Kia K5 (Optima) and the Kia Magentis.