- 2025 Kia Carnival praised for its lengthy checklist of family-friendly options
- Kia’s next-generation Related Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) named “Greatest In-Automobile Multimedia/Leisure System”
Kia has earned two 2025 PARENTS Greatest Household Vehicles Awards, with the 2025 Carnival named as “Greatest Hybrid Minivan” and Kia’s next-generation Related Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) acknowledged as “Greatest In-Automobile Multimedia/Leisure System.” There have been 24 winners throughout a variety of classes, and greater than 180 vehicles, vans and SUVs had been evaluated for the most effective mixture of favor and performance for households.
“With the addition of the hybrid variant, the Carnival now meets the wants of much more households, providing the area, consolation and effectivity that trendy mother and father are searching for,” stated Steven Heart, COO & EVP, Kia America. “Kia’s next-generation infotainment system was designed to reinforce the motive force expertise and we’re proud it’s resonating so effectively as we increase its availability throughout extra Kia fashions.”
The PARENTS knowledgeable panel, comprised of high auto trade specialists (and oldsters), assessed contenders based mostly on key family-friendly elements, together with availability of third-row seating, the variety of LATCH programs for automobile seats, general ease of set up in every automobile, and powertrain choices.
Interesting to households with its considerate options, the 2025 Carnival and Carnival Hybrid present a spacious cabin with seating for as much as eight passengers and as much as 145.1 cubic toes of cargo area behind the primary row. Options like Slide-Flex seating for 8-passenger variations (excluding these with elective VIP Loung Seats) embody a sliding second-row middle seat, permitting easy accessibility to a baby. Different standout options embody commonplace Rear Occupant Alert[1], which is designed to offer, in sure circumstances, an alert to the motive force to verify rear seats earlier than exiting the automobile, and commonplace Protected Exit Help[2], which rear doorways are designed to stay locked when the motive force has activated the ability baby security locks and the system detects approaching visitors from behind.
Past family-friendly practicality, the 2025 Carnival boasts Kia’s next-generation Related Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) working system. This superior infotainment system makes use of Fast Controls to offer easy accessibility to regularly used options by way of a easy swipe, and over-the-air updates[3] that enhance the possession expertise.
Kia’s ccNC working system can be out there in different 2025 Kia fashions, together with the K4, K5, EV6, Sorento, and EV9, with additional growth deliberate for added fashions.
[1] When engaged, Rear Occupant Alert is just not an alternative choice to one’s consideration and should not detect all motion inside the automobile. All the time verify the automobile inside when exiting the automobile.
[2] When engaged, Protected Exit Help is just not an alternative choice to one’s consideration and should not detect all objects surrounding the automobile. All the time take note of visitors and to the realm round your automobile when exiting the automobile.
[3] Over-the-Air options and updates could require an extra value and should fluctuate by mannequin, mannequin 12 months, and trim stage. Options, specs, and costs are topic to alter. Kia Join subscription is required and Kia Join phrases and situations apply.
