Penalty From The Tax Authorities
The Kia Picanto Has Been Re-Homologated and Now meets a Stricter Version of the Euro 6th Emissions Standard. The Kia Picanto Now Has More Power, but this results in a meaning penalty from the tax authorities.
We recently wrote about the hyundai kona going through the homologation mill. To meet Certain Emission Standards, The Engines Have Been Reviewed, result in Slightly Higher Power But also Higher CO2 Emissions and Therefore a Higher Price. We Saw Something Similar A Year Earlier with Cars Like the Hyundai i10, and this time it is the Kia Picanto Whose Engine Has Been Optimized. The 1.0 Three -Cylinder Petrol Engine Long Delivered 67 HP, but was reduced to 63 HP After the Last – and Fairly Drastic – Facelift. The Kia Picanto With Three-Cylinder Engine Has Been Put Through The Homologation Mangle And is Now Stronger Than Ever, But Unfortunately also More Expective Than Ever.
The 1.0 DPI in the Front of the Kia Picanto Now Growls 68 HP and 96 Nm to the Front Wheels. 5 HP and 3 Nm More Than Before. The Engine Speed at which the maximum torque is released is slightly higher than before: at 4,000 rpm inseme or 3,750 nm. After the Adjustments, The Kia Picanto Meets The Euro 6th Bis Emission Standard, But Everything Has its Price. The Higher Power and the New Homologation Method also the Picanto a Higher Fuel Consumption on Paper With Corresponding Higher CO2 Emissions. The Kia Picanto with Manual Transmission Now Consumes 5.1-5.8 L/100 km Depding on the Chosen Version and Four Five-Seater Configuration, and Emits 118-129 Grams of CO2 Into The Atmosphere. The Consumption was Previously 4.1-5.4 L/100 km.
There is also a gain: the picanto with manual transmission now sprints to 100 km/h in 14.7 Instead or 15.4 km/h and also has a higher top speed: 160 km/h Intead or 145 km/h. The Kia Picanto with Automatic Transmission Now takes 17.2 Counts to Reach 100 km/h for the 0-100 Sprint and Reaches A Top Speed of 159 km/h. Irrelevant gain perhaps, but still a gain.
You can already Feel the Storm Brewing: The Highher Co2 Emissions also the Kia Picanto a Higher Starting Price. Across The Board, Prices Go Up by € 2,000. That gives the picanto a new starting price or € 21,795.
The Kia Picanto is immensely popular. It was the most popular new passenger car in the Netherlands in August and is Almost so over the first eight months of this year. 6.307 Copies of it have already leg registered this year. That is 18 percent more than in the same period last year. Only more kia ev3s have already leg registered this year (7.538 units).