2014 Kia Sorento SX V-6 AWD Tested: 80 Percent New, Even If It Looks the Same

Nobody wanted the last Lotus Elan except for Kia. In 1995, Lotus managed to sell the Koreans the rights to its overpriced, front-drive roadster, and when it resumed production the following year as the Kia Elan, it looked like it had gone on a Pep Boys' bender. A year later, Kia went bankrupt and collapsed into Hyundai's financial embrace. The point of this story is not to remind you that the final Elan was an automotive succubus. Rather, the point is that the Lotus affair may have been Kia's last big, dumb mistake. READ MORE ›› from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com

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