Kia Carnival 2024: Australian pricing and specifications 

Kia Australia has published its local pricing and specification for its facelifted 2024 Carnival folk mover.

Pricing now begins at $50,150 sooner than on-road charges for a unhappy S petrol and can sit as excessive as $72,910 sooner than on-road charges for the flagship GT-Line diesel variant.

Impress of entry for the Carnival has long gone up by $2670 in step with the pre-facelift.

As for the Carnival itself, the folk mover good points a brand unique exterior seek for, a rejigged lineup and up so far applied sciences, but what it doesn’t gain is hybrid energy.

The Carnival will continue to be powered by the need of both a 3.5-litre V6 petrol engine or a 2.2-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine.

The diesel commands a $2200 top class over any petrol variant.

As beforehand reported by Chasing Autos, Kia Australia used to be pushing to receive the 1.6-litre petrol hybrid powertrain for the Carnival, a setup additionally expose in automobiles much like Kia’s accept as true with Sportage, or the upcoming Hyundai Santa Fe, however the actuality is that this engine obtained’t be readily accessible, on the least in the initiate lineup.

The Kia Carnival is the finest-promoting folk mover in Australia and competes with the Hyundai Staria, the LDV Mifa and the Toyota Granvia.

Grade breakdown for the Carnival for 2024

Beginning with the entry-degree S variant, owners will receive the next identical outdated instruments:

• Eight-seat capacity
• 12.3-traipse infotainment with integrated 4.0-traipse cluster
• 17-traipse murky alloy wheels
• LED headlights and sunlight hours running lights
• Cloth seat perfect
• Manual driver’s seat
• Fold-down desk for 2d row
• Roof rails
• Ambient temperature showcase
• USB chargers front and rear

Stepping up to the Sport grade, this variant adds:

• Electrical folding exterior mirrors
• Higher 18-traipse alloy wheels
• Satellite tv for laptop navigation
• Wi-fi cellular telephone charger
• Leather guidance wheel and instruments shifter
• Synthetic leather seat upholstery
• Dual-zone climate retain a watch on (front)
• Single-zone rear climate retain a watch on

The following variant is the Sport+, which adds extra aspects much like:

• Dual 12.3-traipse touchscreen and instrument cluster
• Second-row seat heating
• Powered side sliding doors
• LED front fog lights
• 360-degree digicam
• Stable exit support
• Rear nefarious-visitors alert avoidance support

The GT-Line Lite grade adds even extra with:

• Dual sunroof
• Higher 19-traipse machined alloy wheels
• Chrome styling aspects
• Eight-capacity powered seat adjustment for the driver
• Third-row USB fee ports
• LED interior lights
• Second- and third-row sunshade blinds

The flagship GT-Line tops out the vary with:

• ‘Shrimp Cube’ projection LED headlights
• Heated guidance wheel
• 12-speaker Bose sound system
• Lunge shifters
• Front seat air drag
• Digital centre replicate
• Head-up showcase
• Some distance flung perfect parking support
• 12-capacity energy driver’s seat
• Eight-capacity integrated reminiscence seats

Powertrains explained for 2024

Merchants shall be ready to come to a decision on between two powertrains for the Carnival in 2024, as used to be the case for the pre-facelift. Both powertrains are front-pressure finest.

The more noteworthy engine need is a 3.5-litre V6 petrol engine that produces 216kW/355Nm. This V6 engine has a combined fuel financial system of 9.6L/100km.

A torquier 2.2-litre turbo-diesel four-cylinder engine will additionally be equipped, producing 148kW/440Nm. It’s the more fuel efficient engine, on the least on paper, with a claimed combined fuel financial system of 6.5L/100km.

Both engines are mated exclusively to an eight-perambulate computerized transmission.

How stable is the Kia Carnival in 2024?

The Kia Carnival used to be examined by ANCAP back in 2021 the set aside it bought a five-big title ranking. The folk mover scored a formidable 90 percent ranking for adult occupant security and 88 percent for baby occupant security.

As identical outdated at some stage in the vary, the 2024 Kia Carnival will attain fitted with the next security instruments:

• Driver, passenger, front side, centre, curtain and driver’s knee airbags
• Drive consideration warning
• Rear nefarious-visitors alert
• Lane keeping and note support
• Vivid perambulate restrict support
• Independent emergency braking
• Stable exit warning
• Trailer steadiness support
• Excessive beam support
• Blind predicament collision support

Higher spec Carnivals additionally invent:

• Junction crossing and oncoming car detection for AEB
• 360-degree cameras
• Freeway pressure support 2 with lane-switch support
• Rear nefarious-visitors collision avoidance
• Blind predicament seek for video display

Kia Carnival 2024: prices in Australia

All prices listed are sooner than on-road charges.

• S petrol: $50,150
• S diesel: $52,380
• Sport petrol: $56,050
• Sport diesel: $58,280
• Sport+ petrol: $62,380
• Sport+ diesel: $64,610
• GT-Line Lite petrol: $66,350
• GT-Line Lite diesel: $68,580
• GT-Line petrol: $70,680
• GT-Line diesel: $72,910