1995 Kia Sephia Test Drive
In 1968 Honda sent its first car to our shores; the 36-cubic-inch, two-cylinder, 125-inch-long 600 model. That was a very different time, indeed. Honda bobbed its tiny head into an ocean-size market that swallowed 664,030 full-size Fords and 1,060,700 full-size Chevys that year-not one of those cars less than 213 inches long. Factor in all the mammoth ’68 Mercurys, Lincolns, Cadillacs, Buicks, Oldsmobile’s, Pontiacs, AMCs, and Chryslers, and it’s pretty obvious that Honda had introduced the wrong car at the wrong time. It was an inauspicious beginning. Kia’s first Sephia sedan came to our market in ’93 and proved well-suited to many of the realities of the mid-’90s; it was of good quality and keenly priced. Midway through the ’95 model year, the Korean automaker comprehensively upgraded the front-drive Sephia, adding extra convenience and power while holding the price at an affordable level. Sephias are offered with a choice of three trim levels; base RS, midlevel LS, and high-line GS. Outside California, all three get a standard zoomy 1.8-liter/122-horsepower DOHC 16-valve four. In California only, the RS packs a 1.6-liter/105-horsepower DOHC four. The standard five-speed manual transmission can be swapped for an excellent four-speed automatic.
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Hay man it works good thanks
Sweet! Thanks for hangin in there
The interior looks similar to the Ford Aspire
I had one ’95. Here in Brazil The speca were a little bit different: 1.5, 89hp, but with autotrans and all of The goods. The trim was gtx.