New pic of the Kia Track’ster

Soul-based concept car partially revealed ahead of Chicago show debut

Posted by: Vijay Pattni, 06 February 2012

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Kia Trackster

Kia has continued its curious war on the apostrophe with a new weapon: meet the Track'ster.

It's based on the Soul, Kia's "rebellious, individual and urban" Ford Fiesta-sized mini SUV, and is intended to be its ultimate sporting manifestation.

The Track'ster, named for reasons we don't understand, is being built ready to go on show at this week's Chicago motor show, designed at the same California Studio as the Soul'ster convertible concept - currently undergoing final assessment for production - and the Soul itself.

And aside from the image you see above (and below), all we know is Kia ‘envisages' a 247bhp petrol engine to power the apostrophe renegade. We'll know more once the show starts, but it seems quite a few of you are impressed with the normal Soul: 102,000 were sold in the US alone last year.

Interested in the Track'ster, Top-apostrophe-Gear-underscore-dot-dash-commers?

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the back is epic, rest of the design is the same Kia philosophy: copy the best bits from others...

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It looks Cool!! Kia is really moving these days

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Looks kinda like a DS3 in the last photo... 247bhp is a lot for a hot-hatch, that's good news!

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Is it just me or does it sort of look like a BMW i3?

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wow im in love all over again!!!

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