{"id":535980,"date":"2010-04-20T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/20\/kia-forte-awarded-iihs-top-safety-pick\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:18:00","slug":"kia-forte-awarded-iihs-top-safety-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535980","title":{"rendered":"Kia Forte awarded IIHS ‘Top Safety Pick’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\nMuch like parent company Hyundai<\/a>, Kia<\/a> has been working hard to revive its brand image. New products like the Soul<\/a> and Forte<\/a> have been relatively well received so far, and with new stunners like the 2011 Sportage<\/a> and Optima<\/a> on the way, Kia should benefit from a healthy boost in sales. But strip away the sleek new designs and clever interior packaging, and you’ll find that Kia’s core value of crafting extremely safe vehicles is still holding strong, especially now that the 2010 Forte sedan has been named a Top Safety Pick by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.<\/p>\n

The Forte received ratings of “Good” (the highest achievable) in front, side, rear and rollover impact crash tests – something that safety-minded buyers will surely appreciate. What’s more, this gives the Forte more ammo to compete head on with the Honda Civic<\/a> and Toyota Corolla<\/a>, its two main competitors, which have also been dubbed as Top Safety Picks by IIHS. Curiously, only the sedan was mentioned in the IIHS study, so we can’t say if this prestigious honor carries over to the two-door coupe<\/strike> Koup<\/a>. Hit the jump to read the full IIHS press release.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: First Drive: 2010 Kia Forte<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety]<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Budget, Sedan, Safety, Kia 2010 Kia Forte sedan – Click above for high-res image gallery Much like parent company Hyundai, Kia has been working hard to revive its brand image. New products like the Soul and Forte have been relatively well received so far, and with new stunners like the 2011 Sportage and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5775,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535980","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\/5775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}