Kia Seltos

On the inside, Kia Seltos has managed to wow the enthusiasts with its overall interior layout and fit and finish, which despite it being a mass-market offering, looks and feels top-notch and modern, without going too overboard.

The driver’s cockpit looks subtle with a leather-wrapped flat-bottom multi-functional steering wheel and a sober-looking instrument console with a 7-inch MID in between. The instrument console is housed in a panel that extends towards the center of the dashboard and also houses the large touchscreen infotainment system with Apple Carplay and Android Auto.

The lower portion of the dashboard has got soft-touch leather upholstery, with god looking AC vents getting silver garnish at their bottom and a panel for automatic climate control just below it. The all-black cabin looks sporty with contrasting red accents on the dashboard and stitching on the seats and door panels.

With ample amount of room onboard, the Kia Seltos is packed with premium features like electric sunroof, leather upholstery, push-button start with keyless entry, heads up display, ventilated front seats and sunshade curtain.

The Kia Seltos is one perfect combination when it comes to its stance and styling – while it has the upright stance of a traditional SUV, the overall urban theme executed for its styling from front to rear makes it look very upmarket.

The Kia Seltos too gets the same traditional ‘tiger-nose’ front grille with chrome surrounds and red accents within it. The upper corners of the grille come flanked with large and broad looking C-shaped all-LED headlamps with integrated daytime running LEDs and characteristic LED turn indicators. The front bumper looks stylish with red garnish on silver slid plate in the middle and ‘ice cube’ shaped LED fog lamps within T-shaped fog lamp housings.

The side profile of the Kia Seltos might not have the swankiness of the front face, but it manages to look proportionate with a raised bonnet, slightly squared wheel arches, V-shaped rear quarter glass and chrome finished window waistline and door handles. The GT Line gets the gorgeous looking 17-inch machined alloy wheels to make the otherwise simple looking side profile a bit zingier.

At the back, the Kia Seltos looks handsome with beak-shaped big sweptback LED tail lamps which are joined by a thick slab of chrome running in the middle. The chrome garnish on the rear bumper gives the Seltos a dual exhaust port look at the rear, while, the thick looking skid plate adds some muscularity to the overall design.

The Kia Seltos has got its suspension finely tuned, which neither feels bouncy, nor it is too stiff, but very much tries to match its sporty appeal in its design and powertrain. With limited body roll and good feedback from the steering, along with the drive modes – normal, eco, and sport, the driving experience is pretty much sorted.

The sole engine and gearbox combination placed under the hood of the Kia Seltos is a 1.4-litre four-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine coupled to a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. The engine feels punchy with a peak power output rated at 140 PS and peak torque output of 242 Nm.

Matching its comprehensive list of comfort and convenience features, the list of safety features too is quite impressive, with the SUV getting front, side and curtain airbags, ABS with EBD, electronic stability control, traction control, rearview monitor, rear parking sensors with camera, hill start assist and vehicle stability management.

The Kia Seltos comes out as one of those limited packages among cars and SUVs which have nothing to fault with – whether it comes to styling on the outside, comfortable feel on the inside, and the spot-on driving experience with sorted suspension setup and punchy engine.