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Kia Awards & Accolades in Norfolk, VA at Bay KIA
At Bay Automotive, serving Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, VA, we pride ourselves on the reliability, safety, fuel efficiency, value, and customer satisfaction our Kia vehicles provide to our customers, and we will gladly brag about them to anyone who will listen. But do not take us at our word â?? see what everyone else has said about them instead. Check out all of the Kia awards and accolades in Norfolk, VA our 2011 Kia lineup have been awarded and see just how well-respected our vehicles are for yourself! |
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2011 Kia Rio & Rio5
In 2011, our 2011 Kia Rio was awarded the US EPA SmartWay Certification Mark. This mark is given to a vehicle if it receives a minimum of a 6 on both the Greenhouse Gas Score and the Air Pollution Score and also receives a combination of 13 or higher. What does this mean to our customers driving a Rio? That you can rest assured in the fact that your Rio or Rio5 is being kind to the planet at all times, whether on long trips or short. | |
2011 Kia Soul
Our award-winning 2011 Kia Soul, available in Norfolk, VA, has been getting tons of attention in 2011, garnering a grand total of 6 different awards and titles to its name. The first is TopSpeed.com's "Top Ten Small Cars For Under $20K." This award is only given out to vehicles with excellent value, great resale value, wonderful performance and mileage, a superb warranty, and lots and lots of commercial success. Second on the list is that Consumers Digest named the 2011 Kia Soul "A Best Buy."* Simply put, cars that are given this title provide the most value for the money in their class. Thirdly, the Soul was also named a 2011 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Top Safety Pick. This means that the Soul achieved the highest ranking of "Good" in all 4 of the IIHS's crashworthiness tests, namely frontal offset, side, rear, and roof strength testing.
Like the 2011 Kia Rio, the 2011 Soul also received the US EPA SmartWay Certification Mark. The fifth award given to the Soul was the title of A Top Recommended Vehicle for 2011 by Edmunds.com**And finally, the sixth honor bestowed upon the Soul was a NHTSA Five-Star Side-Impact Crash Rating.^ 2011 models must now undergo tougher, more rigorous tests than past model years in order to achieve a 5-Star Safety Rating, meaning you and your loved ones will be even safer in the event of a crash, giving you even more peace of mind behind the wheel. |  | |
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2011 Kia Forte Sedan & Forte Koup
The 2011 Kia Forte, available in both Sedan and Koup body styles, each won an award in 2011. The former was named a 2011 Insurance Institute of Highway Safety Top Safety Pick for Forte Sedan,^^ meaning that it contains electronic stability control and that it received "Good," the highest rating, on all 4 crashworthiness tests conducted by the IIHS. Meanwhile, the 2011 Kia Forte Koup garnered the US EPA SmartWay Certification Mark^^ in the same way the Rio and Soul did as well. | |
2011 Kia Optima
The 2011 Kia Optima, in the vein of the Kia Soul, has been an immensely successful vehicle, earning 5 different awards in 2011. Not only has the Optima been named a 2011 IIHS Top Safety Pick,^^ given the US EPA SmartWay Certification Mark,+ and been bestowed a NHTSA 5-Star Crash Safety Rating,^ but it has also won 2 other titles. The first honor was its being named A 2011 Editors' Most Wanted vehicle by Edmunds' Inside Line.** The second honor, meanwhile, was being designated Cars.com's Best of 2011.++ This prestigious title was given to the Optima after every designated 2011 model was driven and compared in a number of different categories, including value, comfort, ride, handling, and design, allowing the Optima to come out on top as the collective favorite. |  | |
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2011 Kia Sportage
Not only did Kia receive the US EPA SmartWay Certification Mark^^ and get chosen as a 2011 IIHS Top Safety Pick for the 2011 Sportage,^^ but the Sportage also received 3 other, very notable titles. It was dubbed One of the 10 Best Rides for Teens by MSN Auto,^^ meaning it must cost under $20,000, have high MPG, have a high level of safety equipment, have received high IIHS safety ratings, and must include lots of standard equipment in relation to the price. The 2011 Kia Sportage was also named About.com's 2011 Readers' Choice Awards' Best Crossover Vehicle. ^^ About.com received hundreds of nominations, then used them to choose up to 5 finalists in each award category. Users then voted for their favorite finalist, one of which was the Sportage for Best Crossover Vehicle. And most importantly of all, the Kia Sportage was named the 2011 International Car of The Year^* by a jury of 12 distinguished editors from a variety of reputable automotive magazines, including Road & Travel Magazine at www.roadandtravel.com. | |
2011 Kia Sorento
In addition to being dubbed a 2011 IIHS Top Safety Pick when built after March 2010^^ and having Consumers Digest name the 2011 Kia Sorento "A Best Buy"* until 10/15/2011, the 2011 Kia Sorento has another 2 titles to its name. The first is U.S. News and World Report naming the Kia Sorento as One of the "Best New Cars of 2011."^^* And the second is that the Sorento was named a 2011 Top 10 Family Car by Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com,*^ in which the editorial staff use their judgment and discretion to choose the winners. |  | |
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2011 Kia Sedona
The final award-winning Kia vehicle is the 2011 Kia Sedona, which was "Named Best Minivan for the Money" by U.S. News and World Report.**^ The recipient of this award is calculated by combining the U.S. News Automotive rankings as well as 5-year total cost of ownership data from the analysts at truecar.com, thus highlighting cars that have great values, have lower than average cost of ownership, and are just great cars overall.
So whether you need a car, a minivan, or an SUV, if you live around Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Suffolk, VA and want a Kia with awards and accolades in Norfolk, VA, just come to Bay KIA! We will be happy to help put you behind the wheel of the esteemed, prize-winning title holder of your choice today!
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| *The Best Buy Seal is a registered trademark of Consumers Digest Communications, LLC. used under license. **Edmunds Inside Line and Editors' Most Wanted are proprietary trademarks of Edmunds.com, Inc. May be used for future MY if that year's Model is substantially similar to the 2011 model, but 2011 reference in verbiage cannot be changed. ^Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA's) New Car Assessment Program (www.safercar.gov). Does not expire (http://www.safercar.gov/Vehicle+Manufacturers/NCAP+Advertising+Guidelines). ^^May use as long as Model and Model year are stated with the respective claim. +This vehicle is certified to ULEV emissions standards. May use as long as Model and Model year are stated with the respective claim. ++Based on Cars.com editor's independent testing of 2011 model year vehicles. May use as long as Model and Model year are stated with the respective claim. ^*The ICOTY Award is owned by Road & Travel Magazine. May use as long as "2011" is used in association if using digitally. Include www.roadandtravel.com. ^^*Based on methodology found at http://usnewsrankingsandreviews.com/methodology. For duration, see requirements. *^For more information about the 2011 Top 10 Family Cars from Kelley Blue Book's kbb.com, visit kbb.com. Kelley Blue Book is a registered trademark of Kelley Blue Book Co., Inc. May use as long as Model and Model year are stated with the respective claim. **^Expires 2/21/12. |
