Hello and welcome. It's a new video on PowerDrift and today I am not
just Cyrus Dhabhar I am el professor, Cyrus Dhabhar, or I am your sensei because I'm here
to give you some wisdom, some wisdom on Kia's brand new SUV. What is this new SUV? Well, essentially,
it is three rows of seats in a new Kia SUV and it's the bigger version of the Kia Seltos. But
it's nothing like the Kia Seltos, we will get to that in a little bit. It's almost like a
sister car, if you would like to call it that and that's what they've done for a while now, Sonet
and Venue, Seltos and Creta and now you've got the Alcazar and the new Carens. So that's
what this thing is positioned as. So Carens, what about that name? Well, it's not the Karens that
you think you have seen on the internet yelling and screaming at people for no rhyme or reason?
It's definitely not those. The name is and I'm going to read it from your car plus renaissance
"Car" of the Carnes and the "rens", renaissance, yeah, that, I think it needed a better name, but well,
it is what it is. I don't think Kia's gonna change the name unlike Tata Motors has a couple
of times, but nonetheless, the Kia Carens is what it is. Let's move on to more details.
Right, so how big is it well, obviously it is going to be bigger than the Seltos. So as you can see
bigger overhang a lot more space on the inside and that's the point of this SUV, it's just
a little bit stretched a little bit bigger here and there to fit those few more people, just like
the Alcazar does as compared to the Creta. Now styling now this is what it is all about. This is
where this car is different from the rest. Now the Alcazar as compared to the Creta is well, more of
a nip tucked Creta, which has gone through some botox and plastic surgery and been made to look
a little bit better or a little bit worse depending on how you like it because again,
as I always say, design is a bit of a personal thing, I quite like the way the Alcazar looks,
I think it will age rather gracefully a few years down the line, some people disagree with me,
that's of course their issue. The Carens on the other hand looks nothing nothing like the
Kia Seltos of course you've got those typical Kia elements everywhere which is obvious
because it will have a bit of a family look or reference to certain elements, but overall,
it is a hot looking SUV. If you want to stand out from the crowd, those big nice chunky LED
daytime running lights up front and just the dimensions, just the way the stance of this car is
will help you stand out from your neighbours and it will help the Carens stand out in that parking
lot of your society or your garage or wherever you actually end up parking your car. Overall, I think
it is a very nice looking car. Now the interior of the Kia Carens is honestly where my heart goes
because although I love the way the exterior looks, the interior, oh yes, that looks a lot
lot better. Now the Alcazar differentiates itself from the Creta with those chocolatey interiors,
this thing goes a step above. You know what these interiors look like to me? They look like they've
come straight off a Bentley, blue and white, yes, that's what we need to see a lot more of people
taking a chance, people trying to experiment and by people of course, I mean automakers,
I really really dig the way these interiors look. But it's not just about the way they look on the
inside, it's about a lot more of course a lot more means that extra row of seats in the back
now, generally an extra row of seats in the back doesn't mean a lot of space for the middle row
passengers but there is space for the middle row passengers, it's quite decent, in fact, of course that
last row better off for children or people you don't much like but again it is a three-row SUV
the seats are usable albeit for a short distance at the back and you do get an option of a six or
seven seater, you can have bem seats in the middle row or you can have those very nice comfortable
bucket seats that I love to have a quick nap in and I will when I get this stuff for a test very
very soon. What do you think though? Do you think this one looks nice? Do you think the
Carens is a nice looking car? Of course tell us in the comment section below. And since we
are on the comment section do remember hit that subscribe button and the bell icon,
we're checking what you guys are doing, go on then take a pause go and do that and then come
back to this video where we end up talking about a lot more stuff off the Kia Carens.
What about what's under the hood of the Kia Carens? Well just like the Seltos it shares
powertrain options so you get the option of a 1.5-litre diesel that makes 115hp or you get
the 1.4-litre turbo petrol. That's an engine that I particularly love a lot and that makes
140hp. Now obviously both of these will get a manual and an automatic gearbox the normal,
the diesel will get the torque converter automatic and the petrol will get the DCT and honestly,
I might be leaning a bit towards the petrol but I know for a fact that even the Alcazar although
it has those low power figures for the diesel on paper actually ends up moving really, really well
and I know that this one, the Kia Carens, with that same engine, again, will move really well too.
And just like I've said again, and again, the automatic is the one you should go for because why
do you need a big seven-seater manual SUV in this day and age? Just get the automatic.
Yes, this comes from an enthusiast. So trust me the automatic is the way to go.
Right, so let's talk about competition and of course it goes up against the Hyundai Alcazar, which
is the biggest competitor to the Kia Carens because it is the sister car that's an obvious rival.
But the other rivals obviously are the new Mahindra XUV700, which sadly does still have
a very, very long waiting period and of course, the Tata Safari but the other rival,
the one we all seem to sometimes forget and discount, but is right there in the mix and is still
have very, very good car, in fact, it is one of the gold standards of people moving in the country,
the Toyota Innova, now on the bottom end, it might even go up against the likes of the
Maruti Suzuki XL6 if you consider the absolute absolute base version of this car versus
fully loaded version of the XL6, but a wide spectrum and we will know the prices very soon
so stay tuned for that because that will of course come up very very soon
on the PowerDrift YouTube channel. But for now, this is a quick look at what the Carens is all about.
Tomorrow you will have a quick walk around of the car actually explaining and talking about
what the car looks like in person, I'll talk about design up close, I'll talk about space.
I'll talk about engines again, and everything in between if I have missed out on something
in this video, so again, stay tuned for that video and stay tuned for everything else that
will come up on the PowerDrift YouTube channel, I can assure you next year we start off with a big bang.