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Byline: MARK VAUGHN
What was the deal with all those cool tuner cars from Kia at last month's Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas, anyway?
"For the last year I've wanted to push the company toward more performance, but we never had the cars to do it,'' said Kia Motors America president Peter Butterfield. "Now, with the Spectra4 and Spectra5, we can.''
So they did. The week after the cars' SEMA debut, we got to drive the Green Scream, Silver Surfer, Firestorm, Flash, Red Devil and Blue Knight, all variations of Spectras shown in Las Vegas. All but one of them were limited to cosmetic changes: lowered ride heights, wild wings, custom paint jobs and kicking audio packages. Those were all fun to drive, as was the plain old unmodified base Spectra5 we also drove that day. It's always better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow, but none ...