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2011 Kia Forte5 Reviews
2011 Kia Forte5 Review - Globe and Mail, Toronto
Compacts represent the largest part of the Canadian automotive sales pie and provide a chance for a car company to prove itself. If the customer has been happy with the product and experience, he or she is likely to stay with that manufacturer when they move up to a more expensive vehicle.
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2011 Kia Forte Test Drive, National Post, Toronto
It started with the Forte sedan, a much-needed replacement for the ageing Spectra. Things improved with the introduction of the sporty Koup, although my money says - had corn been the name of the day - this model should be called the Coup-eh! in Canada. Now the Forte family has grown to include a functional hatchback. Mercifully, Kia resisted the urge to call it the Forte5; it's simply referred to as the Forte Hatchback.
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2011 Kia Forte5 Review - Toronto Sun
Kia's on a roll and knows it. The company's newly discovered sense of styling, apparent in the well-received Soul compact crossover and latest-generation Sportage, is taking its rep beyond the econobox base-car roots with which it began operations on our side of the Pacific in 1999.
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2011 Kia Forte5 Review - National Post, Toronto
All Fortes, including the new hatchback, will benefit from Kia's shift to six-speed transmissions across the lineup. The Koup and sedan step up from a five-cog manual gearbox, while the automatic adds two speeds. The improvements in the automatic tranny are particularly noticeable, with far smoother gear changes that are also crisp in their execution. The additional cogs also have a positive impact on performance, with both engines demonstrating decent pep off the line yet impressively quiet in highway cruise mode.
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