While General Motors and Ford have essentially abandoned minivans in favor of the ever-popular crossover market, Kia, looking to snag some of those companies' deserted sales, has greatly improved its second-generation Sedona and benchmarked it against the leaders of the minivan pack.
While it doesn't displace the top minivans in the class, the latest Kia Sedona closes in on the soccer moms' perennial favorites from Chrysler, Honda, and Toyota. The Kia's above-average quality helps it nip at the heels of those three, and its lower price and longer warranty should make it possible for Kia to sell the 60,000 annual copies they're expecting. Like the three, the Kia's styling is highly anonymous, inoffensive, and uninteresting. In other words, it's easy to mistake the new Sedona behind you for a few-year-old Ford Windstar.
Pricing for the new Sedona, which went on sale in January, start at less than $24,000.... Read full article