The Kia Pride is a
subcompact car
Subcompact car is a North American Car classification, classification for cars smaller than a compact car. It is broadly equivalent to the B-segment (Europe), supermini (Great Britain) or A0-class (China) classifications.
According to the Unite ...
sold by the
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
n automobile manufacturer
Kia Motors
Kia Corporation (, formerly known as Kyungsung Precision Industry (京城精密工業) and Kia Motors Corporation) is a South Korean multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automobile manufacturer headquartered in Seoul, ...
between March 1987 and January 2000, and again since September 2011. Between April 2005 and September 2011 the Kia New Pride had been sold.
Original models
derived from the Ford Festiva and sold in South Korea and some export markets. Between 2005 and 2011, the New Pride was the South Korean market name for the
Kia Rio JB sold in export markets. The Pride sold from 2011 to 2017 is also based on the Rio—this time the
UB series. Various versions of the Pride family, including sedan, hatchback, liftback, station wagon and pickup, were produced in Iran between 1992 and 2020. Most variants have been halted, with Saipa 151 (pickup version) being the last variant still in production.
In October 2024, to celebrate
Kia's 80th Anniversary, the Gen 1 Pride was restomodded into an
electric vehicle
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, featuring a manual gearbox and a fresh coat of white paint with a “White Pearl” finish.
[https://insideevs.com/news/736549/kia-pride-ev-restomod/] This was a one-off vehicle not meant for sale to the public.
File:Kia Pride silver vl.jpg, Kia Pride (1987–2000)
File:20110507 kia pride 1.jpg, Kia New Pride (2005–2011)
File:20120211 kia pride 0001.jpg, Kia Pride (2011–2017)
File:Saipa 141 GLXi Tehran rear.jpg, Saipa 141 - liftback variant
File:Saipa Pride Safari Persia.JPG, Saipa Safari - station wagon variant
File:Iranian camper car ماشین کمپر ایرانی، یا پراید وانت (کاروان) مسافرتی یا مخصوص حمل بار 05.jpg, Saipa 151 - the pickup variant, here pictured with a back compartment
File:kia-pride-ev-restomod.webp, Kia Pride EV
File:Saipa Saba (Kia Pride) in Iran.jpg, Saipa Saba - Kia Pride sedan version in Iran
File:Saipa 111.jpg, Saipa 111 - Iranian facelift of Pride hatchback
References
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Pride
Pride is a human Emotion, secondary emotion characterized by a sense of satisfaction with one's Identity (philosophy), identity, performance, or accomplishments. It is often considered the opposite of shame or of humility and, depending on conte ...
Cars introduced in 1987