- 2025 Kia Carnival praised for its lengthy record of family-friendly options
- Kia’s next-generation Linked Automotive Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) named “Greatest In-Automotive 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 Automotive Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) acknowledged as “Greatest In-Automotive Multimedia/Leisure System.” There have been 24 winners throughout a variety of classes, and greater than 180 vehicles, vans and SUVs have been evaluated for the most effective mixture of fashion 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 trendy mother and father are on the lookout for,” stated Steven Heart, COO & EVP, Kia America. “Kia’s next-generation infotainment system was designed to boost the motive force expertise and we’re proud it’s resonating so nicely as we develop its availability throughout extra Kia fashions.”
The PARENTS professional panel, comprised of high auto trade specialists (and oldsters), assessed contenders based mostly on key family-friendly elements, together with availability of third-row seating, the variety of LATCH methods for automotive seats, general 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 toes of cargo house behind the primary row. Options like Slide-Flex seating for 8-passenger variations (excluding these with elective VIP Loung Seats) embrace a sliding second-row heart seat, permitting easy accessibility to a toddler. Different standout options embrace normal Rear Occupant Alert[1], which is designed to offer, in sure circumstances, an alert to the motive force to test rear seats earlier than exiting the automobile, and normal Secure Exit Help[2], which rear doorways are designed to stay locked when the motive force has activated the facility baby security locks and the system detects approaching visitors from behind.
Past family-friendly practicality, the 2025 Carnival boasts Kia’s next-generation Linked Automotive Navigation Cockpit (ccNC) working system. This superior infotainment system makes use of Fast Controls to offer easy accessibility to steadily used options by way of 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 enlargement deliberate for added fashions.
[1] When engaged, Rear Occupant Alert shouldn’t be an alternative choice to one’s consideration and should not detect all motion throughout the automobile. At all times test the automobile inside when exiting the automobile.
[2] When engaged, Secure Exit Help shouldn’t be an alternative choice to one’s consideration and should not detect all objects surrounding the automobile. At all times take note of visitors and to the realm round your automobile when exiting the automobile.
[3] Over-the-Air options and updates could require an extra price and should range by mannequin, mannequin yr, and trim degree. Options, specs, and charges are topic to vary. Kia Join subscription is required and Kia Join phrases and circumstances apply.
