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2010 Kia Soul

Most of the time – what we want is not what we really need. Our necessity always wins and what we want is impractical and unaffordable. Thanks to Kia it found a way. Kia released its new and funky Soul onto an unsuspecting market right at a time when most other car manufacturers are busily pulling bold designs in lieu of more staid volume sellers. From concept to reality the Soul has kept its modern and elegant styling. Expressively though, Kia no longer just builds the variety of cars people need, instead they've attacked straight for the 'desire, luxury and want' factor. Good for us Mr. Marvin Unabia of Kia was with us for the test drive.

The Kia Soul's boxy exterior shape provides styling cues and helps hide the Soul's height not to tall like the Suzuki APV. The Sport's standard 18-inch wheels are a perfect fit for its arched clover look like wheels. Way too cool driving this thing around the city. With its boxy figure, the Soul clearly has the Toyota Scion xB in its sights. However, the Soul has more rounded edges and a more angled greenhouse that features sharp-looking, blacked-out A-pillars. The added benefit of the Soul's decent boxy shape is the spacious accommodation, especially given the car's comparatively small track. There's plenty of room both front and rear with space for three passengers across the rear bench. There is also plenty of space for every knee and foot. And as usual Kia still has the "tiger-looks" theme on the Soul.

Inside, an elegant design offered in two-tone hues complements simple controls. The Soul Sport's bright two-tone red-black dashboard should be witnessed firsthand, but it's an effective way to cheer up what would otherwise be an expanse of hard black plastic. Panel gaps on the Soul's dash are impressively tight, and Kia has done a fine job of creating the feeling of more expensive materials. Further back, cargo space is also deceptively spacious. Though the back seats appear to be uncomfortably close to the tail gate, the surprising accessible space is useful in accommodating all manner of cargo stuff, with a multi-compartment under-floor storage space tray, a useful inclusion. Equipments and features are made to surprise like the Soul's fairly simple interior; the equipment list is stuffed with innovation. There's still a decent list of comfort and safety items. On the safety front, the Soul comes with six air-bags as well as four-wheel anti-skid disc brakes with brake-force distribution and electronic stability control to keep everything on path.

There are steering wheel audio controls linked to an eight-speaker audio system which includes a centre channel, subwoofer and 315 watt amplifier. For the iPod equipped, linking the Soul via an optional multimedia cable also provides full iPod control through the head-unit and steering wheel with all screen data repeated in the audio system display. As an added amazing factor there are mood-lit speakers in the front doors which can be set to stay on, beat, or harmonize to your tunes. Definitely it entertains passengers and best of all, it can be turned off which is particularly handy at night given the reflections the little suckers throw up.

The base 2010 Kia Soul gets a 1.6-liter four-cylinder good for 122 horsepower and 115 pound-feet of torque. It is available only with a five-speed manual. The upper trim levels get a 2.0-liter inline-4 with 142 hp and 137 lb-ft of torque. The five-speed manual is standard, but a four-speed automatic is optional. In performance testing, a Soul Sport with the manual went from zero to 96.56 kmh in a decent 8.8 seconds. It also produced solid braking numbers, halting from 96.56 kmh in 128 feet.

In town, the Soul Sport's quick reflexes make it a res-ponsive and fun machine to squirt through traffic. At low speeds, the Soul's 2.0-liter mill is peppy, with a throttle tuned for energetic stoplight leaps, and the gearing of the five-speed seems well matched to the engine's power package. On the open road, the Soul has plenty of urge to run in the fastest freeway lanes, but a driver's calls for more speed once at this pace are met more with engine sounds than meaningful acceleration.

Lamborghini Murcielago LP 670 - 4 SV

Have you asked yourself? – How dull your car can be is if it's not equipped with stereo? You can't connect your Ipods and Mp3 players; youcan't play some sweet background music when you date your girl for a romantic sweet ride. Lucky for Sam the old 1976 camaro junk looking-garbage bumble bee has the taste playing the stereo meant to help Sam do the date. However the creators of Lamborghini LP670-4 SV - whoever was responsible decided to remove the stereo and that's awful. Imagine buying a luxurious cutting edge super car with no stereo? Why don't just remove the seats as well since nobody will be in the mood to sit there. At first I thought they were out of their minds. But I just missed something; upon starting the engine the sound from the engine to the exhaust is just overwhelming. It makes the sound ranges like; the roaring of a raging beast; the trembling stomps of the elephants, the heavy rumble of thunderclaps and a loud scream of a leviathan – I hope you got the last part. In fact the roaring noise is much satisfying than pure music. Now removing the stereo is just fine.

The LP670-4 SV is the last of the line of Murcielago supercars and Lamborghini has moved out to create its most hardcore descendant of a proud breed. It's also the last time we'll see the superb V12, which can stretch its background all the way back to the Lamborghini Miura the super car. SuperVeloce, or SV, is a tag identity in Lamborghini's history, seen most recently on the 1995–99 Diablo SV. The signature is usually applied to a more powerful, gussied-up version of a car that's near the end of its life cycle, which is what we have here in the Murciélago LP670-4 SV. Compared with the popular LP640, the SV's edition of the 6.5- liter V-12 extends 29 more horse power — up from 632 to 661 — owing to revised valve timing and modifications to the intake system. Torque is remained at 487 pound-feet. The more powerful engine doesn't have to work as hard, either, as Lamborghini has cut off a claimed 220 pounds, mostlythrough the wide-ranging use of carbon-fiber panels and interior parts, and a lighter exhaust system. As a result of higher power, lesser mass and quicker electronic gear changes, expect the SV to cleave from 0 to 60 mph in 3.0 seconds en route to a claimed top speed of 213 mph with the optional small spoiler, or 209 mph when equipped with the lofty “Aeropack” wing. If you're one of those twisted souls who think Lamborghini's scissor doored 631bhp V12 Murcielago wasn't quite crazy enough, this lighter, more powerful and carbon clad limited edition SV (that's Super Veloce) just might do it for you. In spite of sacrificing top speed, serious drivers will choose for the Aeropack because the big fixed wing creates so much downforce that Lamborghini should consider changing the name to SG, for "Super Glue". Decelerating the SV inspires confidence too. Standard 15-inch carbon-ceramic discs with six-piston calipers at all four corners (optional on the LP640) stand at the ready behind lightweight, glossyblack 18-inch wheels. The brakes are aided by the huge rear appendage, which also acts as an

air brake. To coast to a crawl, simply lift off the throttle and let drag take over. Most of the test drive reviews said that "The handling benefits of the diet are equally noticeable. The SV turns in more satisfyingly and doesn't under steer as much. And with less mass to keep in check, the body control is much improved on really fast corners when the back end of the standard car can get a little floaty" which everybody agrees.

In conclusion this little lambo can run not just with mere supercars but with the more rarefied and expensive hypercars. It can even keep its royal status in a close battle race with a McLaren Mercedes – SLR 722 hypercar..just as we saw on TOP GEAR.

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