The Kia Pegas is a 4-door sedan from Kia, built from 2017, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
How it came about
The Kia Pegas (Chinese: 起亚焕驰; pinyin: Qǐyà Huànchí) is an entry subcompact sedan (B-segment) manufactured in China by the Yueda Kia joint venture. It is sold under the Pegas nameplate in China, Africa and parts of the Middle East, and as the Kia Soluto in parts of Latin America and Southeast Asia.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed Automatic transmission / automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2570 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: assembly was at List of Kia design and manufacturing facilities#Yancheng Plant. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Bolt, the Chevrolet Camaro — show what else the money bought that year. Its Kia stablemates include the Kia K5 (Optima) and the Kia Magentis.