Bold, Brash Optima SX Proves Kia Can Play Nasty, Too
06.02.37
She’d seen us drive up in a Spicy Red 2011 Kia Optima SX and she was interested — in the car, of course. I wanted to point out the French seam on the dashboard leather, pop the hood and show off the all-new turbine housing that channels air to reduce turbo lag, let her take the car and floor it on a highway offramp, all just to prove her wrong. “It’s a brand new Kia Optima,” I replied. “My mom says those aren’t very good cars. It explains why, for legions of car buyers, General Motors is defined by the plastic-paneled Lumina APV but Mercedes is remembered as the builder of the rock-solid E300. “Oh,” the waitress said, crestfallen.
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