Kia models getting satnav
Satnav will be standard in all Platinum trim Sportages, Sorentos and by mid-year in the Optima.
Within the next month, satnav will be standard in all Platinum trim Sorentos and Sportages and by mid-year in the Optima.
The Korean-made LG satnav system will also be available as an option in the SLi trim level of Sportage and Sorento.
Kia Australia spokesman Kevin Hepworth says the touch-screen sat nav will integrate features such as Bluetooth, audio and rearview camera.
"There is a price associated that we can't reveal as yet, but it will be less than you'd think," he says.
Kia has been without a satnav system because the company did not have the hardware or "intellectual property for local mapping", Hepworth
says.
"The last 12 months we've been working on the system that has been tested and tuned here," he says.
There will be no option for retro fitting, but Hepworth says the system should eventually flow down to other models.
"It's not as simple as just whacking a unit in. You have to totally change the wiring loom," he says.
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