Kia’s Safety Features and Reasons Its Cars are Cheap to Insure
Rising up out of Asia, as its name implies when translated to Sino-Korean, Kia began as a steel tubing and bicycle manufacturer when it was founded in 1944. It is the oldest car company of South Korea, and despite some trouble when the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997, it still stands as one of the most well-known international car companies. When it comes to safety features, Kia Motors’ cars have a lot to offer. Let’s take a look at one of these cars to find out just how safe these features keep you.
The Kia Soul is a South Korea-produced compact, mini MPV launched at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. It has a bold and edgy design, and it comes with more styling and package combinations than any Kia vehicle created before. When it comes to its safety features, it’s apparently topnotch as it has been awarded by the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) with 5 stars, which is the highest possible safety rating. Despite its size, it got an overall weighted score of 75%. Breaking down the crash test results, it was rated 87% for adult protection, 86% for child protection, 39% for pedestrian protection, and 86% for Safety Assist equipment.
A wide array of safety features have been incorporated into the Kia Soul’s compact design, such as advanced front and full-length side airbags, front seat active headrests, an anti-lock brake system with electronic brake-force distribution, electronic stability control, a tire pressure monitoring system, and rear disc brakes which are standard on all models with the exception of the Base trim. All these and the high-tensile strength steel and up-to-date safety technology used in the Kia Soul allowed the vehicle to be among the safest of B-segment family cards worldwide, and, following the European-built Kia cee’d, the second Kia vehicle to have received the highest possible safety rating from Euro NCAP.
Aside from the assurance that you have of the safety of the vehicle’s occupants when you drive it, you can benefit from the completeness of safety equipment in the Kia Soul when buying auto insurance for it. This applies for any other vehicle, for that matter. The higher a car’s safety rating, the cheaper it is to have it insured. Other factors that affect the premium are the buying price of the car itself and how cheap its repair parts will be in the case of an accident where the owner files a claim. Kia cars and their repair parts are not unreasonably priced and they are among the best in terms of safety and security equipment. Be a safe, infrequent, law-abiding driver of any one of them and you’ll be impressed at the discount you can get with your car insurance.
Source: Kia fan blog
