{"id":299046,"date":"2010-02-09T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/09\/spy-shots-make-that-the-2011-kia-optima-frolicking-in-the-snow\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:29:00","slug":"spy-shots-that-would-be-the-2011-kia-optima-frolicking-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299046","title":{"rendered":"Spy Shots: That would be the 2011 Kia Optima frolicking in the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Spy Photos<\/a>, Budget<\/a>, Sedan<\/a>, Kia<\/a>, South Korea<\/a><\/p>\n

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2011 Kia Optima – Click above for high-res image gallery
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\nAccording to a very well placed source deep within the South Korean manufacturing giant Hyundai Kia Automotive Group<\/a>, the sedan above is not<\/em> the 2012 Hyundai Azera as reported yesterday<\/a>. Not only is the car not an Azera<\/a>, it’s not even a Hyundai. You are in fact looking at the 2011 Kia Optima<\/a>. Though there is a 25% chance that this might be the 2012<\/em> Kia Optima. Sadly, and regardless, we know next to nothing about this new Optima<\/a>, other than the fact that the rest of the world will still probably know it as the Magentis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, we know what we can hope for. Judging by the position of the front wheels (they’re almost at the door cut, totally FWD) we feel confident saying this here Optima will not<\/em> be riding on any version of the RWD Hyundai Genesis platform. In other words, this is not the Kia K9<\/a>. Still, we bet that Kia’s new styling guru (and OG Audi TT designer) Peter Schreyer<\/a> will ensure this is the best looking Optima yet. Not a large hill to climb, but one that needs summiting for sure. We’ll give you more info when we get it.<\/div>\n

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Gallery: Spy Shots: 2012 Kia Optima<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Spy Photos, Budget, Sedan, Kia, South Korea 2011 Kia Optima – Click above for high-res image gallery According to a very well placed source deep within the South Korean manufacturing giant Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, the sedan above is not the 2012 Hyundai Azera as reported yesterday. Not only is the car not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}