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The roominess really pays off in accommodating child-safety seats. The 300’s hump is among the highest, at about a foot tall. The center floor hump is very low - about ankle-high - which makes the floor space more usable. While the LaCrosse measures 40.5 inches and the 300 is 40.1 inches, the Cadenza’s backseat still feels roomy and open. This is an instance where legroom measurements don’t accurately reflect reality. The biggest difference is in backseat legroom, where the Cadenza has 36.8 inches, which is 2.1 inches more than the Optima. The Cadenza’s seating dimensions are all equal to or greater than the Optima’s. It has 107 cubic feet of interior volume versus 102 in the Optima, 106 in the Chrysler 300 and 102 cubic feet in the LaCrosse. The Cadenza may not be an enormous, rear-wheel-drive sedan, but it’s appropriately larger than the Optima where it counts the most, namely the interior volume. It’s also a couple of inches longer than the Azera. The Cadenza measures about 5 inches longer, a half-inch wider and almost an inch taller than the Optima. On the positive side, when the car’s running, these stripes illuminate and serve as daytime running lights. It looks like a protective film that should have been peeled off after shipping. (If you’re going to copy other brands, German luxury cars aren’t a bad way to go.) However, I’m disheartened to see the white stripes over the headlight clusters, which I hated on BMWs. Some of that influence remains in the rear, but the front end now evokes a BMW. When viewed from the outside, the Cadenza is a handsome and fairly expensive-looking car. The Hyundai costs $2,755 less.įor a photo gallery, click here. Naturally, the Cadenza can’t help but compete with its sister model, the Hyundai Azera (Hyundai owns Kia), with which it shares a platform and most of its hardware. If midsize is OK with you, the Lexus ES sedan is a very tough competitor for its quality and starting price of $37,280 (all prices cited include destination charges). The Cadenza’s higher trim levels nip at the heels of the Volvo S80, the Swedish company’s flagship sedan, though one that’s closer to midsize.

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Riding the line between more modest, high-volume cars and full luxury brands, the Cadenza competes with pricier versions of the Buick LaCrosse, Chrysler 300 and Toyota Avalon (see the cars compared side-by-side here). Kia has been building some great vehicles over the past several years, including the midsize Optima sedan, which was ’s car of the year for the 2011 model year.

On its own merits, the 2014 Kia Cadenza is a classy premium sedan, but its status as a Kia rather than a more esteemed brand might make its premium price harder for shoppers to swallow. But then again, it’s memorable, and so is the new 2014 Kia Cadenza sedan itself, especially if you compare it with the Kia Amanti sold between 20.