- 2025 Kia Carnival praised for its lengthy listing 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 Automobiles 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 automobiles, vehicles and SUVs have been evaluated for the perfect mixture of fashion and performance for households.
“With the addition of the hybrid variant, the Carnival now meets the wants of much more households, providing the house, consolation and effectivity that fashionable mother and father are on the lookout for,” stated Steven Middle, COO & EVP, Kia America. “Kia’s next-generation infotainment system was designed to reinforce the driving force expertise and we’re proud it’s resonating so nicely as we broaden its availability throughout extra Kia fashions.”
The PARENTS professional panel, comprised of prime auto business specialists (and fogeys), assessed contenders primarily based on key family-friendly elements, together with availability of third-row seating, the variety of LATCH techniques for automobile seats, general ease of set up in every car, 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 house behind the primary row. Options like Slide-Flex seating for 8-passenger variations (excluding these with optionally available VIP Loung Seats) embrace a sliding second-row middle seat, permitting easy accessibility to a toddler. Different standout options embrace customary Rear Occupant Alert[1], which is designed to supply, in sure circumstances, an alert to the driving force to examine rear seats earlier than exiting the car, and customary Secure Exit Help[2], which rear doorways are designed to stay locked when the driving force has activated the ability little one 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 supply easy accessibility to continuously used options via a easy swipe, and over-the-air updates[3] that enhance the possession expertise.
Kia’s ccNC working system can also be obtainable in different 2025 Kia fashions, together with the K4, K5, EV6, Sorento, and EV9, with additional enlargement deliberate for extra fashions.
[1] When engaged, Rear Occupant Alert shouldn’t be an alternative to one’s consideration and should not detect all motion inside the car. All the time examine the car inside when exiting the car.
[2] When engaged, Secure Exit Help shouldn’t be an alternative to one’s consideration and should not detect all objects surrounding the car. All the time take note of visitors and to the realm round your car when exiting the car.
[3] Over-the-Air options and updates might require a further price and should differ by mannequin, mannequin 12 months, and trim degree. Options, specs, and costs are topic to vary. Kia Join subscription is required and Kia Join phrases and situations apply.
