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Old 20 Dec 2004, 13:19 (Ref:1183918)   #1
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A few years ago, there were rumours Kia would be interested in the WTCC. Well, where are they?
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Old 20 Dec 2004, 14:04 (Ref:1183950)   #2
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Seriously, I doubt we will see Kia in the series.
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Old 20 Dec 2004, 14:47 (Ref:1183988)   #3
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How big a company is Kia?
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Old 20 Dec 2004, 14:57 (Ref:1183998)   #4
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Hyundai owns them. And with Hyundai's WRC fiasco in mind, well...
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Old 20 Dec 2004, 17:25 (Ref:1184146)   #5
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Hyundai owns them. And with Hyundai's WRC fiasco in mind, well...
Last year I read on wrc.com Hyundai will return to WRC and Kia will do a Dakar project:
http://www.wrc.com/News.aspx?PO_ID=2...lse&lang=en_GB

Since then I have nothing heard about Kia and their Dakar project. The Dutch Kia importer supports a Dutch rally team:

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That Kia Dakar project gets factory backing for 2005 FIRE.
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Old 22 Dec 2004, 16:49 (Ref:1186025)   #7
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That Kia Dakar project gets factory backing for 2005 FIRE.
I thought this car is developed by Bob ten Harkel and with some support from Kia Holland.
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Old 22 Dec 2004, 17:31 (Ref:1186062)   #8
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Kia is also present in the French Andros Trophy with the Rio
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Old 28 Dec 2004, 18:43 (Ref:1188967)   #9
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According the owner of the Dutch Kia Dakar team Kia will take part with a factory team at Dakar in 2006.
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Old 28 Dec 2004, 22:09 (Ref:1189076)   #10
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Kia is also present in the French Andros Trophy with the Rio
They most certainly are. Back in Feb 2004 I saw the 'Ice King' Yvan Muller win at The Stade de France. Would be interesting to see him drive it on a tarmac circuit.
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Old 28 Dec 2004, 22:56 (Ref:1189107)   #11
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They most certainly are. Back in Feb 2004 I saw the 'Ice King' Yvan Muller win at The Stade de France. Would be interesting to see him drive it on a tarmac circuit.
excellent day out wasn't it?
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Old 28 Dec 2004, 23:14 (Ref:1189121)   #12
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I'm not sure but think Kia doesn't have a 2-litre engined Rio so IF there will ever be a WTCC Kia it's more likely Magentis.
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I'm not sure but think Kia doesn't have a 2-litre engined Rio so IF there will ever be a WTCC Kia it's more likely Magentis.
Whoa, the Kia Magentis is huge. I would think it's even bigger than the Volvo 850s/Dodge Strati of the '90s ST!!

The Rio seems a bit too small. I think it would make more sense to race something in between to the 2 cars? The Kia Spectra--based on the next generation Lantra/Elantra.
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Old 31 Dec 2004, 16:13 (Ref:1190612)   #14
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when t1 was originally announced i think one of the car shapes that was going to be used was a kia
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Old 31 Dec 2004, 16:35 (Ref:1190617)   #15
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I think they would use the Kia Cerato
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