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I can't tell if the guy at the bakery is
trying to be funny or if he's genuinely
forgetting the name of the car
I've told him twice it's the 2017 kia
cadenza but you know maybe the
miscommunication is just fine
like the goods itself it's fine
you shouldn't read that negatively every
now invented this job you drive a car
and simply come away thinking it was
fine and if you're building a car in
this particular segment that's
practically the response you hope to
elicit a comfortable jack-of-all-trades
at a price that isn't going to bankrupt
the owner considered the condensers
competition
toyota avalon nissan maxima chevrolet
impala buick lacrosse these aren't
groundbreaking luxury vehicles masters
of utility or fuel economy or
nürburgring smashing sports sedans
there
you almost feel bad saying from a very
reasonable angle it's a great segment
populated with cars offering the lot of
the same equipment and a little more
bang for the buck than a footlong luxury
sedan and tending to be room here too
and yet it's that dilution of dedicated
purpose that keeps these models stagnant
and showrooms compared to the more
luxurious and certainly to the more
economical it's hard to raise an eyebrow
here so it goes with the cadenza despite
looking a heck of a lot like the
previous car the new cadenza has been
reworked significantly the use of
high-strength steel has doubled to over
fifty percent the use of hot stamped
steel has triple the doors are sixteen
percent more dent-resistant the chassis
has 35% greater torsional rigidity
there's a new subframe similar to that
of the optima the front windows are now
laminated and there's thirteen percent
more sound insulation in the a-pillars
there's a full underbody cover and will
air curtains it has a new eight-speed
transmission developed in-house there
are 40 fewer pounds of unsprung weight
thanks to aluminum parts the brakes are
bigger and there's a bevy of upscale
tech features but we lost you halfway
through that paragraph
the styling is a little sharper than the
outgoing models it's not going to blow
your pants off but it's hardly a bag
looking car the updated design features
he is now trademark quad led set up
within the lower front grilles and the
main grille is a concave affair
base models get a diamond butterflying
search you know from other kia models
and higher-end cadenzas gettin taleo
vertical slats keep walking around the
car and you'll find the sides have been
flattened out a bit and the taillights
have received a welcome tightening the
mash of little tweaks and updates mean
that the 2017 Fidentia is at once easily
confused with the old carring
unmistakeably the new one
it's hard to explain and sort of the
nature of the segment to be a bit
anonymous if you're not you're the new
nissan maximum points for trying but
will take anonymous things are fine
inside to do is with to celebrate the
area and open cockpit of the cadenza and
we can't help but agree it's a pleasant
place to be very similar to the oven
modernity maybe minus the plastics
quality no coincidence there of course
the wide flat dash in the way the front
door handle scoop forward into the door
are no brainer views from chief designer
peter tries previous place of employment
we could do without the plastic analog
cloth the central timepiece is something
you do if you're going to use glass or
sapphire crystal abandon otherwise you
know the diamond stitching on the napa
leather seats of our loaded test car
nothing wrong with it per se just
something that's probably better left
then
that's it the 14 with front seats are
very adjustable although we did find the
thigh support getting extend quite far
enough and the rear cabin offers gobs of
space no matter your size you'll hear
zero complaints about taking this key on
a road trip in any seat
want to guess how the cadenza drives
fine
it drives fine the electric power
steering has been redesigned to offer
almost hydraulic like the feedback
thanks to an upgraded 32-bit processor
the extra bits are meant to offer better
on centerfield but you can wiggle the
wheel right-to-left pretty significantly
at speed before getting a reaction from
the big sedan that said it's not all bad
particularly compared to the overly
artificial field of too many electric
power steering systems on the market
here there's not the need to correct
constantly it's a song with seven out of
ten as electric racks go especially
given the vehicle class hydraulic like
though it's not even in the same zip
code the cadenza can be equipped with
the requisite flock of advanced driver
assist systems but none of them are
going to mess with the steering wheel
there's the blind spot detection system
which has the ability to intervene by
breaking the opposite side front wheel
if you're Nora Jones playlist headlong
you to sleep on the highway adaptive
cruise control with stop-and-go
functionality of your knees are going
forward collision warning if your brain
is an autonomous emergency braking if
both are already gone
then there's an almost unbelievably
sensitive lane departure warning system
which will be that you in the first
thought of deviating from your course
begins to form in your subconscious but
then bizarrely not correct your course
there's an around view camera for
parking maneuvers and a head-up display
to the cadenza retains its three dot
3-liter direct-injected v6 which now
offers 290 horsepower and 253 pounds to
put of torque
you may notice that those figures are
actually slightly down compared to the
2016 cars 293 255 it's sort of academic
though as the new eight-speed
transmission makes up for the reduction
with two additional ratios in a shorter
final drive said transmission was
developed in house and we have no
complaints like all modern transmissions
its programs to make its way off the
tree top gear as quickly as possible in
an effort to maximize fuel economy here
though the desire to charm you at the
gas pump doesn't get in the way of
drivability the cadenza downshifts
predictably as you press your foot
farther and farther into the pedal
stroke avoiding the sudden triple or
even quadruple downshifts that quake
some modern nine-speed transmission the
combo feels well matched to the chassis
offering plenty of torque and easily
rushing to get into triple digit speeds
when you call for it and you're almost
never left wishing for a lower gear if
there's a penalty for the big engines
application it's at the pump and it
pretty much applies to the whole class
the curtains and manages 20 miles per
gallon in the EPA city test and 28 on
the highway
he says the new car will start about a
grand cheaper than its predecessor at
just under 32 thousand dollars and climb
all the way to just under forty four
thousand dollars which is a full
thirty-seven percent bump to the base
models price the striking factor here is
that the core ingredients remain the
same in all trim levels the cadenzas
front-wheel drive and powered by the
three-dot 3-liter v6 credit a lot of
that difference to the dynamic driving
systems offered on the higher-end
technology and s-xl trims so while it's
easy to understand and even like the
wood and how the tricky part might be
why why build the cadenza the segment
isn't exactly booming and even in the
relative sense the cadenza which
has been in production since 2013 cells
and extremely small numbers compared to
competitors like avalon maxima and La
Crosse still though if you think those
cars are fine
you owe it to yourself to check out the
cadenza
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