Kia Ceed

The Kia cee’d is a small family car released in the European market by the Korean manufacturer Kia Motors in December 2006. It is available as a five-door hatchback, three-door hatchback (”pro_cee’d”), and five-door estate (”cee’d SW”), with a choice of up to five engines (three petrol and two diesel), four trim levels (S, GS, LS, SR) and either manual or automatic transmissions — and is sold in over 20 variants of the above in some markets. Kia used the paris Motor Show 2006 to preview a five-door estate variant in production form, and a three-door concept, both of which were to be on sale from Autumn 2007, combining with the five door hatchback model to give a model range of over 50 variants in some markets. The Hyundai i30 shares the platform with cee’d.
The Kia cee’d is said[attribution needed] to get its name from the Community of Europe and European Design, its project name simply being “ED”. One alternate explanation, though never mentioned by Kia, and thus not official, is “cerato evolved” because the Cerato is the predecessor of the cee’d.
Kia cee’d earns Euro NCAp 5 star safety rating.
Kia’s all-new pro cee’d is the 3-door variant of the cee’d. The car debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show, and went on sale in January.
Kia’s all-new ex_cee’d cabrio concept car was premiered at the 77th Salon de l’Automobiles in 2007 Geneva. Based on the new three-door cee’d hatchback, due to go into production at the Zilina factory in Slovakia from December, the ex_cee’d shares the same platform, but features all-new exterior panels and a powered folding fabric roof.
Kia revealed a concept of it’s pro_cee’d line, with improved aerodynamics and mild hybrid engine tuning to the diesel engine, under the name “eco_cee’d”. Kia has confirmed it will release eco_cee’d versions of it’s cee’d line in 2009.