Kia Optima Sportswagon Is the Best Optima?And We Have a Plan to Bring It Stateside
Internet trolling is the faceless act of badgering one’s fellow human beings over the internet. We see plenty of trolling in the comments section on our website, sometimes even directed at us, although for what reasons we can never understand. (We’re perfect!) Civilized society should shun this sort of behavior, abhorrent and cat-GIF-filled as it often is, but we’re going to take a break from political correctness and rally every single one of you to troll Kia?hard. Why" Kia has revealed an Optima-based station wagon for Europe, and we want it sold here. Now.
We’ve begrudgingly anticipated Kia’s Optima wagon since last year, when the automaker debuted the incredibly attractive Sportspace concept we knew would gestate into a station wagon we couldn’t buy here in the United States. Sure enough, a year later, here we sit, staring down an incredibly attractive Optima Sportswagon that we can’t buy in the States. More or less identical to the Optima sedan, a car we really quite like, the Sportswagon features more roof and a large, square cargo bay with 19.5 cubic feet of space (as measured using European standards) behind the rear seats. That’s a mere 1.7 cubic feet greater than the sedan, which doesn’t sound like much, but overseas “VDA” cargo-space measurements typically don’t count the space above the base of the window line in wagons and SUVs the way our standards do. Count more of the airspa...
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