Following its debut earlier final week, Kia is about to formally begin bookings for the Sonet facelift from December 20. Sources say that costs for the Sonet facelift might be revealed early subsequent month, with deliveries starting by mid-January, and added that ready durations will not be more likely to exceed a month. Deliveries for the diesel-manual variants, nevertheless, will start just a little later from February 2024. 

1. Sonet facelift costs to be introduced by early Jan
2. Customers with Kia Ok-code to get precedence supply
3. Waiting interval unlikely to exceed a month, initially

Priority supply with Kia Ok-code

For even faster deliveries, clients can avail advantages with the particular Kia Ok-code. One merely has to get in contact with an current Kia proprietor who can generate the Ok-code from Kia India’s web site by coming into their car particulars, or on the MyKia app between December 14-20.

The Ok-code can then be used on the time of reserving the car to leap the queue for precedence supply. However, the Ok-code will solely be relevant for bookings made by the web site, and particularly on December 20 between midnight and 11.59pm.

Kia Sonet facelift powertrain, trims and variants

The Sonet facelift continues to be supplied with three engine choices: an 83hp, 1.2-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine that comes with a 5-speed guide gearbox solely; a 120hp, 1.0-litre, three-cylinder turbo-petrol engine; and a 116hp, 1.5-litre, four-cylinder diesel engine. The turbo-petrol and diesel engines get a 7-speed dual-clutch and 6-speed torque converter computerized, respectively. The latter two additionally get a 6-speed iMT and a 6-speed guide, respectively, with the guide making a comeback on the diesel.

There are three trim traces on provide – Tech Line, GT Line and X-Line. This is additional break up into the next trims: HTE, HTK, HTK+, HTX, HTX+, GTX and X-Line. The 1.2-litre petrol engine is obtainable solely with the Tech Line trims, whereas the 1.0-turbo-petrol and 1.5-diesel are unfold throughout all three trim traces. The computerized gearboxes for each these engines are restricted to the top-spec HTX+, GTX and X-Line trims.

Kia Sonet facelift anticipated value, rivals

The outgoing Sonet was priced from Rs 7.79 lakh for the bottom 1.2 petrol going to Rs 14.89 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi) for the top-spec diesel-auto. Given the numerous function updates, anticipate the Sonet facelift to value a good chunk greater than earlier than.

In phrases of rivals, the Kia Sonet facelift will compete with the Tata Nexon, Hyundai Venue, Maruti Suzuki Brezza, Nissan Magnite, Renault Kiger and different compact SUVs.

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