2027 Kia Telluride Looks Really Damn Good

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Out of each nan awesome products that Kia has put retired since its creation and engineering gyration that started pinch nan 2008 Optima, astir apt nan astir important (especially for nan U.S.) has been nan Telluride SUV. The first-gen Telluride went connected waste successful 2019, which intends it's beautiful aged by Korean automaker standards astatine this point, but not only did it instantly triumph accolades upon its release, nan Telluride has continued to beryllium 1 of nan champion wide three-row SUVs connected nan market, moreover against overmuch newer competition.

Still, it really is clip for a caller one. We've known it was coming, particularly arsenic its Hyundai sibling, the redesigned Palisade, has already been connected waste for a mates months, and recent teasers had america excited for the second-gen Telluride's much futuristic styling. Ahead of its charismatic uncover astatine nan Los Angeles Auto Show later this month, Kia on Monday released photos of nan 2027 Telluride's interior and exterior, successful some high-end SX Prestige and off-road-oriented X-Pro trims. I deliberation it looks fantastic, some unusual and refined.

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We don't person nonstop specs yet but Kia says nan caller Telluride is 2.3 inches longer and an inch taller than the aged one, and its wheelbase is almost 3 inches longer. Kia says nan Telluride is "still proudly boxy," and that's decidedly true. The greenhouse is much upright pinch flusher glazing, nan beforehand and rear ends are much bluff, and nan surfacing and detailing is each consecutive lines and difficult angles. But there's still a batch of style and play present — look astatine really nan fenders travel to a triangular point, nan soft chamfered curvature of nan tailgate and D-pillar.

The Telluride's unique vertical LED moving lights are still amber but brought much successful statement with Kia's existent Star Map angular lighting motifs, and they placed correct successful statement pinch nan ace wide grille, which doesn't really person that galore cooling openings and uses shapes that echo nan lights. I for illustration nan measurement nan grille flows into nan chunky bumper, and nan beardown bulges successful nan hood. Another awesome item is nan notched instrumentality arch cladding.

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Kia says nan caller Telluride's X-Pro trim "embraces a darker, much commanding character," which is simply a spot funny (or scary?) for a family SUV. It does look beautiful awesome, though, and it's much differentiated from nan modular Telluride than nan aged X-Pro was. Up beforehand you get a grille shape made from a gradient of rectangles, reddish tow hooks successful nan moreover chunkier bumper, matte achromatic exterior trim, taller tile rails, and a much salient rear bumper that besides has a brace of reddish tow hooks. All-terrain tires springiness it 9.1 inches of crushed clearance, an summation of 0.7 inches complete nan outgoing model.

The X-Pro gets a Ground Lighting characteristic that projects soft ray from nan broadside mirrors, nether nan rear doors, and underneath nan rear bumper. If you raise nan tailgate much lighting comes from there, and puddle lamps that say Telluride task nether nan beforehand doors erstwhile opened. 

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The electrical Kia EV9 group a really precocious interior bar, but nan Telluride looks moreover better. Kia says its creation was "inspired by nan imagination of a boundless sanctuary," and that it offers a abstraction that's some expansive and intimate. The gradual dashboard has a awesome wraparound look that continues onto nan doorway panels, pinch a ample trim panel, a continuous aerial vent trip, and a ample brace of integrated screen. There are immoderate beingness ambiance power switches successful nan halfway of nan dashboard, and a statement of seemingly capacitive infotainment controls. The halfway console has a very cool floating drawback grip design, a brace of wireless chargers and a covered retention abstraction pinch cupholders, on pinch a fewer much existent buttons for conveyance functions. Many of nan surfaces person soft ambient lighting underneath.

Kia says there's up to half an inch much headroom successful Tellurides pinch sunroofs, and nan caller model's taller stature intends it's easier to get successful and retired of nan 2nd and 3rd rows. The second-row seats tin beryllium power-adjustable captain's chairs, pinch nan action of mesh headrests successful nan first and 2nd rows. A halfway console betwixt nan rear seats tin move into a functional table, and nan Telluride has a folding luggage array pinch integrated ruler markings and a removable partition successful nan cargo area.

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On nan extracurricular nan Telluride will beryllium disposable successful 10 overgarment colors astatine launch, including Black Jade Green and Terrain Brown, nan second of which is offered pinch either glossy aliases matte finishes. But nan interior is wherever things really get nosy — Kia says "Grandioso" was nan halfway taxable of its Color, Materials and Finishes (CMF) team. As you tin spot above, there's an astonishing operation of Tuscan Umber and Deep Navy, which really shows disconnected nan different interior creation elements. Another caller action will beryllium Blackberry, described arsenic a rich | purple, paired with Sand Beige. Kia says that combo "delivers a astonishing harmony that's sophisticated, daring, and distinctly flagship."

In nan X-Pro you tin get your interior successful each black, or, if you're not boring, Deep Khaki aliases Saddle Brown. Different trim levels person their ain accent pieces, including wood-look connected nan SX Prestige aliases a crushed c vibe connected nan X-Pro. The seats person different stitching, embossing and perforation patterns, too. 

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While Kia hasn't fixed retired immoderate accusation astir thing but nan Telluride's design, it's beautiful easy to infer things by looking astatine nan Hyundai Palisade. In nan Hyundai, nan aged 3.8-liter V6 is replaced by a caller people aspirated 3.5-liter V6 making 287 horsepower and 260 pound-feet of torque. Much much breathtaking will beryllium nan Telluride Hybrid, a first for nan model, pairing a turbocharged 2.5-liter inline-4 pinch a mates of electrical motors. The Palisade Hybrid makes 329 hp and 339 lb-ft of torque, while delivering noticeably amended substance economy. Expect nan Telluride to lucifer nan Hyundai's numbers.

It will proceed to beryllium offered pinch front- aliases all-wheel drive, and though it rides connected nan aforesaid level arsenic before, location will beryllium tons of changes nether nan skin. We'll cognize much astir nan 2027 Telluride erstwhile it debuts in LA successful a mates weeks, and Kia says it will scope dealers successful nan U.S. successful nan first 4th of 2026.