- 2025 Kia Carnival praised for its lengthy record of family-friendly options
- Kia’s next-generation Related Automotive Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) named “Greatest In-Automotive 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 Automotive Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) acknowledged as “Greatest In-Automotive Multimedia/Leisure System.” There have been 24 winners throughout a variety of classes, and greater than 180 automobiles, vans and SUVs had been evaluated for the very best 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 area, consolation and effectivity that trendy dad and mom are on the lookout for,” mentioned Steven Middle, COO & EVP, Kia America. “Kia’s next-generation infotainment system was designed to boost the motive force expertise and we’re proud it’s resonating so properly as we broaden its availability throughout extra Kia fashions.”
The PARENTS skilled panel, comprised of high 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 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 non-obligatory VIP Loung Seats) embody a sliding second-row heart seat, permitting easy accessibility to a toddler. Different standout options embody customary Rear Occupant Alert[1], which is designed to supply, in sure circumstances, an alert to the motive force to examine rear seats earlier than exiting the automobile, and customary Protected Exit Help[2], which rear doorways are designed to stay locked when the motive force has activated the facility little one security locks and the system detects approaching site visitors from behind.
Past family-friendly practicality, the 2025 Carnival boasts Kia’s next-generation Related Automotive Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) working system. This superior infotainment system makes use of Fast Controls to supply 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 also be obtainable in different 2025 Kia fashions, together with the K4, K5, EV6, Sorento, and EV9, with additional enlargement deliberate for added fashions.
[1] When engaged, Rear Occupant Alert just isn’t an alternative to one’s consideration and should not detect all motion throughout the automobile. All the time examine the automobile inside when exiting the automobile.
[2] When engaged, Protected Exit Help just isn’t an alternative to one’s consideration and should not detect all objects surrounding the automobile. All the time take note of site visitors and to the world round your automobile when exiting the automobile.
[3] Over-the-Air options and updates might require an extra price and should 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.
