At the front, there’s a bold new treatment for the bumper and light signatures, with the concept moving away from the ‘Tiger Nose’ grille motif that has been a defining feature of Kia design for almost 20 years. Here, the headlights are sharply angled, thin LED strips mounted on the muscular front haunches, which protrude from the body of the car and house the rear-view cameras.
There is no traditional bonnet to speak of: the Vision Meta Turismo adopts a similar cab-forward profile to the Jaguar I-Pace, and the base of the windscreen extends almost to the leading edge of the front end – perhaps signalling a design shift that more overtly exploits the inherent packaging freedoms of Kia’s EV E-GMP platform.
The windscreen leads back into a multi-section panoramic roof that curves down towards a bluff rear end, where there’s an integrated spoiler, a contrasting black diffuser and a new interpretation of the distinctive brake light design from the EV3 and EV9.
Moving inside, the Vision Meta Turismo is pure concept in its radically minimalist and tech-led cockpit.
It’s described as a “highly immersive” cabin that majors on next-generation technology, with screens and buttons swapped for a full-width, 3D head-up display and holographic driver display. Meanwhile, there’s an unusual yoke device in place of a steering wheel, and a joystick at the side of the driver’s seat, though Kia hasn’t said what this is for – as the concept does have conventional pedals.
Kia is expected to give more details on the concept soon, but has yet to give any indication of plans for a public debut outside of Korea.
