South Korean manufacturer Kia will show up at the 2013 Frankfurt Motor Show (12-22 September) with a brand new and pretty futuristic compact crossover concept simply calledNiro, a model that - as they put it - is meant to hint at a possible future B-segment contender ready to take on the urban environment.
The imposing figure of the Niro has been designed under the direction of Gregory Guillaume, Chief Designer Europe, at Kia’s Frankfurt design studio, which is actually less than a kilometre away from where the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA) will take place. Kia didn’t say much about its powertrain, just stating it will be ‘innovative’, but given the many green insertes we can see throughout the body of the car - which we noticed when the first teaser came out - we bet it would be some sort of hybrid combination.
Niro’s unveiling in Frankfurt will be used to gauge potential customer response for future showroom models. Kia is probably thinking about releasing a model that will go on to compete with the successful Nissan Juke and the likes, but we will probably have to wait for a couple of years before seeing the final production version of the model. What we have here is a bunch of pics showing us a pretty dark and aggressive model which would look great in Batman’s garage, but we will wait to see it ‘in-the-metal‘ in Germany to see if it’s really that cool.
via EUROCARBLOG
