It's one of those designs that makes you question how that person even got hired as a designer in the first place. If Kia had given it the same front end as the telluride, with flared fenders and rugged off-road tires, it would have been a great looking pickup.
Yes and Kia could have picked any of those front end styles for the Tasman pickup but instead went with the most excruciatingly awful fronts you will ever see. Buyers are running away from the sight of it.
The reason they were less expensive to maintain was they didn't change and the mechanics knew the ins and outs of keeping them running. If your supporting the same vehicle for almost 20 years, you should know the ins and out of how it is supposed to run.
Big news with potentially purpose-altering implications for BOC:
Now that BOC Tennessee will not have battery construction on site, does that create the possibility of that plant being designated for production of something other than EVs?