日前，现代汽车在其脸谱账号上公布了旗下品牌起亚全新一代Ray车型的预告图，这款车将会在12月正式海外首发。外观方面，新车与第一代Ray车型十分接近，方盒子的车身造型依旧得以保留，整车线条更加简约，前脸中网位置上移并采用封闭式设计，全黑涂装的B/C柱营造出悬浮车顶的效果。车尾部分的设计同样简洁清新，C字形LED尾灯组与车身线条相融合，点亮后辨识性很高。动力方面，官方暂时还未公布具体信息，作为参考，第一代车型最大续航里程可达到138公里，如果想要获得更长续航里程，消费者还可以选择搭载一台三缸汽油引擎。

Kia Ray Teaser Suggests City Car Will Still Be Cute After Update

For those in the United States, no you’re not looking at a new, smaller version of the popular Kia Soul. There is some similarity in the face and upsloping rear windows, but this is in fact a city car called the Kia Ray. To be more specific, this will be the next Ray, newly restyled and recently teased by Kia’s parent company Hyundai on Facebook.

To save you the hassle of translating the text, the post says that the new Ray is coming sometime this month. That’s not what you’d call a tell-all description, but the Ray does have some significance in the automotive world. This was actually the automaker's first all-electric offering, debuting back in 2011 for the 2012 model year, and served as the predecessor to the Kia Soul EV – a vehicle for which Americans are definitely familiar.

In its current form, the modest electric motor gives the Ray a range of 86 miles, or buyers can opt for a three-cylinder gas engine for a more traditional commute. Being a city car, it is of course small and boxy, with a passenger side sliding door similar to a van. It’s exclusive to the South Korean auto market, and as far as we can tell, there are no plans to take it anywhere.