you are lucky in the Canadian market this comes with rear heated seats, heated steering wheel, proximity sensors for parking front and back, HUD and cooled seats also. The last one is a bummer why Canadians have cooled seats while stateside they omitted it. Beats me… Seems some short cuts for our market..
@@francismartinez6049 I have a kia soul plus. Granted I haven't put much mileage on it. But the kia / hyundai are anything but disposable. I'd say given that the german lux brands' value drops like a rock, they're the disposable POS these days. Even the japanese cars with all the electronic doohickeys are a PITA when it comes to basic repairs. Never trusted turbos for a 250k mile long haul but who knows things are changing. Even honda turbos the heck out of everything.
@@francismartinez6049 I don't know about disposable I think the domestic American brands are more disposable than Kia. I had a 2016 Ford escape that blew the tranny at 80,000 miles. Not only that the power transfer unit was also slowly eating itself up but that's a known issue with ford. My friend 2016 Ford focus blew It's head gasket at 40,000 mi. My 2012 Kia forte has 170,000 mi and no issues at all. I think the issue is the Kia tends to be very sensitive to neglect so if you don't do oil changes or any preventative maintenance kia will fall apart while a Toyota can power through.
We need an update with more info, such as: How’s the stereo? The road noise in the winter with winter tires? How does the cabin heat up and retain temps. Transmission rougher in colder weather Etc. Thanks for your time.
Would love to test drive the Seltos with the basic 2.0 liter. Just did a POV drive review of the Soul and was very impressed. If the 2.0 liter Seltos drives like the Soul then great. But not if the 2.0 comes with AwD.
I believe the absolute base model here in Canada comes as FWD with the 2.0L engine, but the first one I got to drive was an EX AWD with that engine. Worked out well enough as a daily driver!
Dont see any updates from you on this rig. Any word on how it is to daily drive? Im looking at downgrading to something a little more affordable and practical. The seltos is on my radar.
It's true that I haven't done any new content on this, but I also haven't had the chance to do any real mileage on it. Sitting around 4,000km right now and still on winter tires. Overall the Seltos is a great little daily driver with a lot of the features for the segment. Road noise could be better, but there's nothing I've come to hate about it over the past 6 or so months that we've had it. Would be nice if it had driver memory seats though, that's one feature I'd like to see added down the road.
@@AjithKumar-cq2ip not even the same category. Depends which CX-5, turbo? Then that will be way faster but hungrier on gas. It will on the plus side be way more luxurious and better driving dynamics. But like totally two different vehicles, for me I’d ditch the CX-5 because of the HU
I have a question, I bought 2022 Seltos SX Turbo (blue as yours) and I noticed from day 1 that after I turned off the car, it's always making some weird sound as low-frequency beeping and a loud "click" several times before it becomes silent, the whole process took about 10-15 seconds, have you noticed the same sound as mine? if so is this sound normal?
Sounds somewhat normal, some cars have been doing this more than others. With our Seltos you might hear some small noises after parking especially if you’ve been driving for a while.
Sounds impressive, we'll see how it goes in the real world! I've been driving it a bit more this week as I film a Showdown with it, I do find a bit of wonky shifting off the line.
@@PRNTestDrive "wonky shifting off the line." --- I've read that from several reviewers! So, if you drive mainly in an urban area, may not be a good choice.
I believe it ultimately comes down to cost. A lot of the more affordable vehicles use this type of HUD, which also coincides with those being smaller cars in general. It might be due to that also, the dimensions of the dashboard and the overall angle of the windshield might play into it.
Will you be able to share the power output of stock LED headlights of your seltos? Seems your model has three blocks of reflectors on at same time in low beam, whereas the model in India has only two slots activated at same time in low beam. I personally feel the output is very less due to some government norms, hence seeking your info to get inputs if the LED's are under-powered here in India. Wondering how they perform in wet road conditions or wide highways without lane markings.
I'd love to find an accurate way to test the power/efficiency of headlights. I don't have a scientific way to do it as of now, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. I haven't had a chance to drive this at night yet since our area has been under a curfew for a little while now, but I'll see what I can do!
@@PRNTestDrive thank you for your response. Looking forward to hear from you. Meanwhile will you be able to get the input voltage/watt figures to the LED headlights whenever possible? 🙂
They are all seasons, and we do not ever recommend driving all-season tires in the snow. You need to get winter tires for the best control, and ultimate safety. We will be doing video on this with the Seltos very shortly.
Two main reasons, number one I don't have the gear to accurately record those numbers as you'll see on Friday's episode of the 2021 Mazda3 GT Turbo, and two I don't have a place to legally do those kinds of tests.
I don't consider it to be unfortunate, there are a number of channels out there that specialize in doing performance testing, Throttle House is a great example. I'll leave that sort of testing in their capable hands.
You know this North American version (SP2) is different than NCAP tested (SP2i). This SP2 version seems to have tested better according to IIHS, NHTSA, and ANCAP. Five Stars from ANCAP (similar to Global NCAP, same test standard but conducted in Australia) Good in all crashworthiness tests from IIHS (USA, Non-profit) Four stars frontal, five stars side, four stars roll over from NHTSA (US Government, non global standard tested, thus differenti rating scale). That is the tale of two Seltos. The Indian (SP2i) and Chinese models (SP2c) are more similar to each other dispite the size difference than the South Korean/Australian/North Anerican (SP2). Being that the Australian ANCAP test was five stars, you should ask Kia what did they do differently between those two versions. This is a Canadian (North American SP2) model and that test has little to do with the Indian verson. Again, I would ask why the SP2 Seltos for developed markets seem to have better crashworthiness than the one for developing markets (SP2i and SP2c). You won't find that answer here.
you are lucky in the Canadian market this comes with rear heated seats, heated steering wheel, proximity sensors for parking front and back, HUD and cooled seats also. The last one is a bummer why Canadians have cooled seats while stateside they omitted it. Beats me… Seems some short cuts for our market..
Kia and Hyundai both seem to be one of the few manufacturers that offer vastly different trim/features between our two countries.
Two things I am curious about learning with this engine and transmission setup,
1. Driving smoothness jerkiness
2. Reliability
They’re pretty much disposable cars after the warranty is up. If you value reliable past the 7-8 year mark I’d look for something simpler
We'll see how things go over the next 24,000km or so! I haven't had any problems with the long-term Kias we've driven so far.
@@francismartinez6049 I have a kia soul plus. Granted I haven't put much mileage on it. But the kia / hyundai are anything but disposable. I'd say given that the german lux brands' value drops like a rock, they're the disposable POS these days. Even the japanese cars with all the electronic doohickeys are a PITA when it comes to basic repairs.
Never trusted turbos for a 250k mile long haul but who knows things are changing. Even honda turbos the heck out of everything.
@@francismartinez6049 I don't know about disposable I think the domestic American brands are more disposable than Kia. I had a 2016 Ford escape that blew the tranny at 80,000 miles. Not only that the power transfer unit was also slowly eating itself up but that's a known issue with ford. My friend 2016 Ford focus blew It's head gasket at 40,000 mi. My 2012 Kia forte has 170,000 mi and no issues at all. I think the issue is the Kia tends to be very sensitive to neglect so if you don't do oil changes or any preventative maintenance kia will fall apart while a Toyota can power through.
Who broke your heart man,I see you have lucid dreams playing in the car
Probably was whatever was playing on SiriusXM when I was filming it. Not even sure what that song is to be honest!
We need an update with more info, such as:
How’s the stereo?
The road noise in the winter with winter tires?
How does the cabin heat up and retain temps.
Transmission rougher in colder weather Etc.
Thanks for your time.
I'll see if I can film something on this within the next week or so!
@@PRNTestDrive Whoot!
Would love to test drive the Seltos with the basic 2.0 liter. Just did a POV drive review of the Soul and was very impressed. If the 2.0 liter Seltos drives like the Soul then great. But not if the 2.0 comes with AwD.
I believe the absolute base model here in Canada comes as FWD with the 2.0L engine, but the first one I got to drive was an EX AWD with that engine. Worked out well enough as a daily driver!
Hopefully, they will switch to their new wet clutch DCT in the future.
I hope so, a good dual-clutch makes all the difference!
My SX turbo in pearl white just arrived...my first car purchase...hopefully a good decision!? 😬
Can't go wrong with it! I see these everywhere, it's popular for a reason!
Which blue is this? They have two different blue colours
This one was Neptune Blue.
Have u filmed the snow test yet?
I haven't yet, but I'm planning to. Hopefully by next month I'll have something!
@@PRNTestDrive thanks living in the Boston area we don't get Canada snow but we get our share. So it would help in the decision process
I'll make it happen!
Dont see any updates from you on this rig. Any word on how it is to daily drive? Im looking at downgrading to something a little more affordable and practical. The seltos is on my radar.
It's true that I haven't done any new content on this, but I also haven't had the chance to do any real mileage on it. Sitting around 4,000km right now and still on winter tires. Overall the Seltos is a great little daily driver with a lot of the features for the segment. Road noise could be better, but there's nothing I've come to hate about it over the past 6 or so months that we've had it. Would be nice if it had driver memory seats though, that's one feature I'd like to see added down the road.
@@PRNTestDrive Cool great to know, Going to test drive one later this week. Thanks for the response!
@@PRNTestDrive Seltos or CX-5?
@@AjithKumar-cq2ip not even the same category.
Depends which CX-5, turbo? Then that will be way faster but hungrier on gas. It will on the plus side be way more luxurious and better driving dynamics.
But like totally two different vehicles, for me I’d ditch the CX-5 because of the HU
I have a question, I bought 2022 Seltos SX Turbo (blue as yours) and I noticed from day 1 that after I turned off the car, it's always making some weird sound as low-frequency beeping and a loud "click" several times before it becomes silent, the whole process took about 10-15 seconds, have you noticed the same sound as mine? if so is this sound normal?
Sounds somewhat normal, some cars have been doing this more than others. With our Seltos you might hear some small noises after parking especially if you’ve been driving for a while.
@@PRNTestDrive thank you, the seltos SX is really a great car!
Nice car.. Dual clutch transmission that's impressive..
Sounds impressive, we'll see how it goes in the real world! I've been driving it a bit more this week as I film a Showdown with it, I do find a bit of wonky shifting off the line.
@@PRNTestDrive "wonky shifting off the line." --- I've read that from several reviewers! So, if you drive mainly in an urban area, may not be a good choice.
Why did they use that pop up head up display?
I believe it ultimately comes down to cost. A lot of the more affordable vehicles use this type of HUD, which also coincides with those being smaller cars in general. It might be due to that also, the dimensions of the dashboard and the overall angle of the windshield might play into it.
Will you be able to share the power output of stock LED headlights of your seltos? Seems your model has three blocks of reflectors on at same time in low beam, whereas the model in India has only two slots activated at same time in low beam. I personally feel the output is very less due to some government norms, hence seeking your info to get inputs if the LED's are under-powered here in India. Wondering how they perform in wet road conditions or wide highways without lane markings.
I'd love to find an accurate way to test the power/efficiency of headlights. I don't have a scientific way to do it as of now, but I'm definitely open to suggestions. I haven't had a chance to drive this at night yet since our area has been under a curfew for a little while now, but I'll see what I can do!
@@PRNTestDrive thank you for your response. Looking forward to hear from you. Meanwhile will you be able to get the input voltage/watt figures to the LED headlights whenever possible? 🙂
What tires come with these by default? Are they considered "all season" and drivable in the winter?
They are all seasons, and we do not ever recommend driving all-season tires in the snow. You need to get winter tires for the best control, and ultimate safety. We will be doing video on this with the Seltos very shortly.
The school turbo has a heads up display?
School? Autocorrect? Let me know what you meant to say.
@@PRNTestDrive auto correct my bad. The SX turbo has a heads up display? Is that only the non USA model
I'm not sure how it is in the US, but here in Canada the SX Turbo is the only one that gets the HUD.
@@PRNTestDrive I have this car 2021 Seltos sx in the U.S. No head up display 😩
Why is there never a performance test drive. Acceleration, braking handling etc. ? Thanks
Two main reasons, number one I don't have the gear to accurately record those numbers as you'll see on Friday's episode of the 2021 Mazda3 GT Turbo, and two I don't have a place to legally do those kinds of tests.
@@PRNTestDrive well. It's just unfortunate isn't it?
I don't consider it to be unfortunate, there are a number of channels out there that specialize in doing performance testing, Throttle House is a great example. I'll leave that sort of testing in their capable hands.
Any one from india here?? After their failed NCAP rating test?
You know this North American version (SP2) is different than NCAP tested (SP2i). This SP2 version seems to have tested better according to IIHS, NHTSA, and ANCAP.
Five Stars from ANCAP (similar to Global NCAP, same test standard but conducted in Australia)
Good in all crashworthiness tests from IIHS (USA, Non-profit)
Four stars frontal, five stars side, four stars roll over from NHTSA (US Government, non global standard tested, thus differenti rating scale).
That is the tale of two Seltos. The Indian (SP2i) and Chinese models (SP2c) are more similar to each other dispite the size difference than the South Korean/Australian/North Anerican (SP2). Being that the Australian ANCAP test was five stars, you should ask Kia what did they do differently between those two versions.
This is a Canadian (North American SP2) model and that test has little to do with the Indian verson. Again, I would ask why the SP2 Seltos for developed markets seem to have better crashworthiness than the one for developing markets (SP2i and SP2c). You won't find that answer here.