- 2025 Kia Carnival praised for its lengthy checklist of family-friendly options
- Kia’s next-generation Related Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) named “Finest In-Automobile Multimedia/Leisure System”
Kia has earned two 2025 PARENTS Finest Household Vehicles Awards, with the 2025 Carnival named as “Finest Hybrid Minivan” and Kia’s next-generation Related Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) acknowledged as “Finest In-Automobile Multimedia/Leisure System.” There have been 24 winners throughout a variety of classes, and greater than 180 automobiles, vehicles and SUVs had been evaluated for the most effective 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 trendy dad and mom are searching for,” mentioned Steven Middle, COO & EVP, Kia America. “Kia’s next-generation infotainment system was designed to boost the driving 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 prime auto business consultants (and oldsters), 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 ft of cargo house behind the primary row. Options like Slide-Flex seating for 8-passenger variations (excluding these with elective VIP Loung Seats) embrace a sliding second-row middle seat, permitting easy accessibility to a toddler. Different standout options embrace commonplace Rear Occupant Alert[1], which is designed to offer, in sure circumstances, an alert to the driving force to examine rear seats earlier than exiting the car, and commonplace Secure Exit Help[2], which rear doorways are designed to stay locked when the driving force has activated the ability youngster security locks and the system detects approaching site 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 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 growth deliberate for added fashions.
[1] When engaged, Rear Occupant Alert shouldn’t be an alternative choice to one’s consideration and will 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 choice to one’s consideration and will not detect all objects surrounding the car. All the time take note of site visitors and to the realm round your car when exiting the car.
[3] Over-the-Air options and updates might require a further value and will range 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.
