All-New Kia Sorento Adds Style and Comfort
If you live in the southern Wisconsin/northern Illinois area like I do, you know that all-wheel-drive (AWD) vehicles are extremely useful. Furthermore, if you have parents that have driveways that are long and uphill like I do, you know AWD vehicles mean your brother Steve and Uncle Jerry don’t have to come out to push you up the driveway after they’ve had one too many glasses of eggnog at the holiday party. However, if you’re young like me, your first instinct may be to associate AWD technology with dollar signs. Well, fear no more.Kia Motors Corp. will soon introduce a new AWD system that they have magnificently named Dynamax (for marketing purposes, clearly). The system is in conjunction with Kia’s efforts to upgrade its image from its current “budget brand” category, as well as to keep up with the AWD systems offered by more luxurious brands such as BMW and Audi.
The Dynamax will be offered first on the Kia Sorento, available at the Kenosha Kia dealer, Classic Kia. Kia Motors Corp. has designed this system to anticipate poor traction conditions in order to give the car time to adjust accordingly. However, Dynamax is not the company’s first go at an AWD system. Kia models have offered AWD systems for years, but Dynamax is Kia’s response to the industries “branding”, if you will of, of a Kia specific system (think GM’s OnStar). Kia partnered with Magna Powertrain, which is a division of Magna International Inc., in order to develop the system.
Specifically, Dynamax claims to improve the handling, fuel economy and overall performance of the Sorento in slippery, wet conditions through technology that smoothes out the delivery of power to each wheel while driving in these conditions. Ultimately, then, the point of Dynamax is to anticipate these conditions and apply the needed power to each wheel before the driver has a chance to reach the hazardous road – all of which is to go all but unnoticed by the driver. Southern Wisconsin’s Kenosha Kia dealer says the technology is extremely cutting edge.
So, again if you’re like me, you are conveniently located near your Waukegan Kia Sorento dealership and checking out the SUV and its Dynamax AWD system would be a no brainer. Which therefore means, in essence, brother Steve and Uncle Jerry can instead be mixing me an eggnog this holiday season, while I effortlessly cruise up my parent’s incredibly long and steep driveway in my new Waukegan Kia Sorento. Thanks for the Happy Holidays Dynamax.