The Kia Telluride is a 5-door SUV from Kia, built from 2019, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Park Byung-Kyu drew it.
Where it came from
The Kia Telluride is a mid-size crossover SUV with three-row seating manufactured and marketed by Kia since 2019. Positioned above the Sorento, it was previewed as a concept car in 2016, with the production model debuting in early 2019 as a 2020 model.
It shares components and specifications with its Hyundai counterpart, the Hyundai Palisade, including its engine, transmission, and wheelbase. Named after the town of Telluride, Colorado, the Telluride is the largest vehicle Kia has manufactured in the United States.
Under the skin
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1865 -. It shifts through a 8-speed A8LF1 automatic. The wheelbase is 2900 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Kia Mohave/Borrego (North America); assembly was at West Point, Georgia (KMMG), United States. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Model Y, the Tesla Model 3 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Kia catalogue sit the Kia K5 (Optima) and the Kia Magentis.
What it costs now
The money question first: $33,800–$74,500 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,590–$7,821 a year. Insurance sits around $1,660–$2,780 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.