Kia Koup

[northvibe]

http://www.worldcarfans.com/90...-york "Power comes coutesy of a 290hp 2.0-liter Theta II turbocharged engine with torque standing at 289 lb-ft at 2,000 rpm."its still concept but its like a civic knock off. But the power ratings..hmm we'll see if it can actually handle though :/

[BlueCrush]

Killer TorK for that size Kar. Kinda UGLY, though...

[northvibe]

that "theta 2" is the new DI world engine. made by hyundia/kia, mitsu and chyrsler. so mitsu made it Supposedly used in the evo....which could mean there could be some massive mods for it.

[ColonelPanic]

Saw this at the NY show last year, it looks really good in person. The Theta is a great engine. The turboed Theta is also the base engine in the Hyundai Genesis coupe but oddly enough it only has 223 HP or something like that. I think this engine has a lot of potential. I don't think Mitsubishi had a lot of an input on the Theta - they may have been involved in some regards but it was primarily Hyundai's design. Even Chrysler took Hyundai's design and tweaked it for their "world engine." I wouldn't necessarily consider Mitsu being involved a good thing though, a lot of the mechanical problems Hyundais had over the years - especially the transmissions - were largely failures with Mitsubishi designs since they either licensed their crap or cloned it and built it themselves. I discovered after I bought mine even my '06 the tranny is still a copy of a Mitsubishi gearbox. *barf* Hasn't died yet though!

[NascarXprt]

ouuu, thats not that bad of a concept, looks similar to the CivicType R hatch in europe.