Kia Australia spokesman Kevin Hepworth is not quite adamant there is no chance of the car going on the market in Australia.
“One good reason is that the car is not made in right-hand drive,†Hepworth told CarAdvice. “Apart from that, a price that is fair to the car would be well outside what the market would accept from Kia at this stage.
“If Hyundai â€" with 10 per cent of the market â€" is meeting the sort of resistance it has to the Genesis pricing, it would be even more difficult for Kia with three per cent of the market.
“That is not to say that a K900 or similar car would never be available or suitable for Australia, just not now or in the short-term future.â€
Our K900 is powered by an incredibly smooth petrol V8 engine matched to a crisp eight-speed automatic transmission. The power and torque figures aren’t stratospheric (313kW and 510Nm) but the way the engine generates and delivers it’s power is so smooth, you’d be hard pressed to pick it as a V8. Some might question that logic, but at this luxury limo end of the market, a raucous engine note isn’t always as appealing as it might otherwise be. ‘Sport’ mode gets things happening with more urgency and opens the exhaust up a little too.
Still, it’s the most powerful Kia engine ever, and on the open highway out to Death Valley with stretches in ‘Sport’ mode, our K900 slurps an indicated 10.1 litres per 100 kilometres â€" not bad for a whopping great sedan. Around town in LA traffic, that figure sneaks up to an indicated 14L/100km.
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