Kia Provo

The Kia Provo is a 3-door subcompact hatchback concept that Kia revealed at the Geneva Motor Show on March 7, 2013, after first teasing it in January on Kia's UK website. Designed in Frankfurt, Germany, for the European car market and described by Kia as all about fun, pure and simple, it is a crossover-styled all-wheel-drive car. A 1.6 L Gamma turbo GDI four-cylinder of 201 hp drives the front wheels and a mild hybrid system adds 44 hp to the rear wheels for a total of 245 hp, sent through a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission. It is finished in Storm Metal greenish-gray with a deep orange roof and 19-inch wheels, and the roof shape and accent colour later appeared on the Kia Stonic production vehicle. The name drew criticism in the United Kingdom, where a Member of Parliament objected that provo was a term for members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.