Nice information! Kia has confirmed it’s growing a midsize pickup truck to tackle the Ford Ranger. Besides it’s solely confirmed for Australia. Will we ever see it within the U.S.? We’d certain hope so. It will be impolite of Kia to develop a pickup truck and never promote it right here. The truth is, we’d say it’s fairly doubtless that we’ll additionally get Kia’s new truck.

In keeping with Australia’s WhichCar, a extremely positioned supply in Kia’s Australian seller community says the long run truck was introduced at a latest seller convention and can go on sale in 2025. When requested for a remark, Kia Australia confirmed the truth that the truck is being developed however wouldn’t touch upon every other particulars.

“Kia is presently growing a future pickup truck mannequin that can be extremely succesful and match for goal,” a spokesperson for Kia Australia instructed WhichCar. “Extra particulars can be confirmed sooner or later.”

In contrast to the Hyundai Santa Cruz, the upcoming Kia pickup truck will reportedly be an precise body-on-frame truck and can be a real competitor towards the Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux. If you happen to’ve been being attentive to Australian automotive media (which we undoubtedly all have), this isn’t precisely a shock, although. Spy photographs of a closely camouflaged Kia pickup truck surfaced late final 12 months.

Kia additionally introduced final 12 months that it was engaged on two pickup vans. On the time, Kia stated it deliberate to construct each vans within the U.S., which means that at the very least one in all them can be offered right here. In spite of everything, why would Kia go to the difficulty of constructing a truck within the U.S. if it plans to export all of them to different nations? That simply wouldn’t make sense. Moreover, the 2025 on-sale date in Australia traces up carefully sufficient with Kia’s earlier assertion that it plans to start out manufacturing right here in 2024. So prepare, people. In just a few years, there’ll most likely be a brand new midsize pickup truck to think about.