{"id":327676,"date":"2010-02-16T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/16\/2010-kia-forte-koup-sx-review\/"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:57:00","slug":"review-2010-kia-forte-koup-sx-a-beauty-queen-that-cant-hide-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/327676","title":{"rendered":"Review: 2010 Kia Forte Koup SX a beauty queen that can’t hide its roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2010 Kia Forte Koup – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

It’s time to stop being surprised that Koreans can make good cars. Kia<\/a> and its sister-brand Hyundai<\/a> have been doing it for years now, with each successive model being better than the last. Hyundai has been selling vehicles in the U.S. for 24 years, Kia for 16, and they don’t deserve bonus points anymore for exceeding expectations. Want proof? Along with Subaru<\/a>, they were the only three brands to increase sales last year during the Great Recession. The bar has been raised and it’s time we take off the kid gloves.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, we turn our attention to the 2010 Kia Forte Koup. A brand new model, the Koup joins the Forte sedan<\/a> in displacing the Spectra<\/a>, Kia’s former best-selling model in the U.S. So the stakes are high for this four-door and accompanying Koup (blech, we mean coupe<\/em>). We’ve already sampled the Forte sedan and called it “a stylish, comfortable, frisky automotive companion for surprisingly short dollars.” Along with losing two doors, the Koup also gains more aggressive bodywork that suggests the potential for higher performance than the sedan. Does it fulfill that promise or come across as a parts-bin twin with two fewer doors? Let’s follow the jump to find out.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Kia, Reviews 2010 Kia Forte Koup – Click above for high-res image gallery It’s time to stop being surprised that Koreans can make good cars. Kia and its sister-brand Hyundai have been doing it for years now, with each successive model being better than the last. Hyundai has been selling vehicles […]<\/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-327676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327676","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=327676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}