- 2025 Kia Carnival praised for its lengthy record of family-friendly options
- Kia’s next-generation Linked Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) named “Greatest In-Automobile Multimedia/Leisure System”
Kia has earned two 2025 PARENTS Greatest Household Vehicles Awards, with the 2025 Carnival named as “Greatest Hybrid Minivan” and Kia’s next-generation Linked Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) acknowledged as “Greatest In-Automobile Multimedia/Leisure System.” There have been 24 winners throughout a variety of classes, and greater than 180 automobiles, vehicles and SUVs have been evaluated for the perfect mixture of favor and performance for households.
“With the addition of the hybrid variant, the Carnival now meets the wants of much more households, providing the house, consolation and effectivity that fashionable dad and mom are searching for,” mentioned Steven Heart, COO & EVP, Kia America. “Kia’s next-generation infotainment system was designed to reinforce the motive force expertise and we’re proud it’s resonating so nicely as we develop its availability throughout extra Kia fashions.”
The PARENTS skilled panel, comprised of prime auto business consultants (and oldsters), assessed contenders based mostly on key family-friendly components, together with availability of third-row seating, the variety of LATCH techniques for automotive seats, total ease of set up in every automobile, and powertrain choices.
Interesting to households with its considerate options, the 2025 Carnival and Carnival Hybrid present a spacious cabin with seating for as much as eight passengers and as much as 145.1 cubic ft of cargo house behind the primary row. Options like Slide-Flex seating for 8-passenger variations (excluding these with optionally available VIP Loung Seats) embrace a sliding second-row middle seat, permitting quick access to a baby. Different standout options embrace customary Rear Occupant Alert[1], which is designed to supply, in sure circumstances, an alert to the motive force to examine rear seats earlier than exiting the automobile, and customary Secure Exit Help[2], which rear doorways are designed to stay locked when the motive force has activated the ability little one security locks and the system detects approaching visitors from behind.
Past family-friendly practicality, the 2025 Carnival boasts Kia’s next-generation Linked Automobile Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) working system. This superior infotainment system makes use of Fast Controls to supply quick access to often used options by a easy swipe, and over-the-air updates[3] that enhance the possession expertise.
Kia’s ccNC working system can also be out there in different 2025 Kia fashions, together with the K4, K5, EV6, Sorento, and EV9, with additional growth deliberate for added fashions.
[1] When engaged, Rear Occupant Alert will not be an alternative choice to one’s consideration and will not detect all motion throughout the automobile. At all times examine the automobile inside when exiting the automobile.
[2] When engaged, Secure Exit Help will not be an alternative choice to one’s consideration and will not detect all objects surrounding the automobile. At all times take note of visitors and to the world round your automobile when exiting the automobile.
[3] Over-the-Air options and updates could require a further price and will range by mannequin, mannequin 12 months, and trim stage. Options, specs, and costs are topic to vary. Kia Join subscription is required and Kia Join phrases and situations apply.
