最近谍照记者拍到了2017款起亚Picanto测试照片。当时这辆原型车正在瑞典进行测试，车身进行了重度伪装。新车看起来比老款车更大，从车尾看尤其明显。这将有助于扩大行李箱储物容积并增加后排腿部空间。虽然车辆前部被遮盖得严严实实，但仍可以清晰的看到，在造型完全不同的前大灯组内采用了LED日间行驶灯。同时尾灯组也采用了LED光源，只不过造型不再是原来的回镖形状。进入车厢内，可以看到全新设计的真皮方向盘，速度表位于仪表群右侧，而在老款车上则位于仪表群中间。空调出风口位置和形状改变，按键和旋钮形状也改变了，排挡杆前面设置了两个杯架。值得注意的是，其中一辆原型车采用的是手动变速箱，而另一辆配备的是自动变速箱。虽然目前不清楚该车技术规格，但预计2017款Picanto的内装与姊妹车型现代i10一样。预计该车很有可能会在3月的日内瓦车展发布，另一个可能发布该车的时间是10月的巴黎车展，该车随后将在今年底或明年初上市。
2017 Kia Picanto spied inside and out
Earlier today we saw the all-new Kia Rio testing in winter clothes and now time has come to check out the next-gen Picanto city car.
The prototype was spotted in Sweden and as you would expect it was wearing an extensive amount of disguise to hide what seems to be a substantially different design. The car appears to be bigger than the outgoing model and the size difference is more obvious at the back. This will likely boost the trunk's capacity and rear legroom, as demonstrated in some of the attached spy imagery.
The front fascia is heavily masked, but even so it’s easy to notice the Picanto has LED daytime running lights housed within the radically different headlight clusters. Kia has installed light-emitting diodes at the back in the taillights which don’t seem to be shaped like a boomerang anymore.
Stepping inside the cabin, right away we observe the new design of the steering wheel wrapped in leather. The speedometer now sits on the right side of the instrument cluster while on the outgoing model it’s positioned in the middle. The vents have been relocated and reshaped and there are modified buttons and knobs, along with two cup holders in front of the gear knob. Speaking of which, you’ll notice one of the prototypes spotted by our spy photographers had a manual gearbox, while the other was equipped with an automatic.
Technical specifications are not available at this point, but we expect the 2017 Kia Picanto to use just about the same internals as sister car Hyundai i10.
It’s too early to say when Kia will reveal it's overhauled city car, but it’s highly unlikely we’ll see it in Geneva in March. A more plausible introduction seems to be the Paris Motor Show set for October prior to a late 2016 / early 2017 market launch.