Came here to say that. I ended up getting a new Golf, but I gave the Soul a serious look. Also, the Soul is my favorite car that is reasonably obtainable from a rental car counter.

Doubt there’s a D pillar, “C” seems to be trim only, given that there’s just trim paneling on the rear door, not the section behind it.

6MT as an option for any engine on this car would be good enough.

Slightly off topic, but Kia Soul had the weirdest commercial at the time. It was a parody of the Friday the 13 movies where a bunch of girls are staying up late in a cabin in the woods while a guy in a mask (it looks like the mask from Alice Sweet Alice, but worn by a big guy in a flannel jacket) is sneaking up to the…

I love the artful shape and application of the SOUL nameplate on the roof pillars, about the polar opposite of Chevy’s one size fits all approach that has a total disregard for any adjacent curves and and angles.

Stick shift?

Me too, more bright and awesome colors are needed. I'm digging that red roof inn that white body.

My family has had three of the first generation Soul. All manual transmission models with no options (but they were well equipped standard). The most recent one (we got used) only lasted a couple of months since we bought it for my son who is somehow able to total every car he comes anywhere near within weeks or…

The Soul is easily one of the best vehicles on the market today. I don’t like crossovers at all, but that’s okay, since I would call the Soul a hatchback instead.

I was a KIA sales manager 5 years ago.

My wife’s uncle has a redline soul, and he loves it. he’s also 72, did autocross until he couldn’t heel and toe any more because his foot was amputated due to cancer, and can pretty much buy whatever within reason.

They should, the current green is lighter and I do like the fact that Kia is one of the very few manufacturers doing two tone paints.

Here’s me hoping that the production version has green paint like that. Not Neon green or lime green or yellow-green.

The engineer in me says that it’s impossible for them to stop at exactly the same moment in time

Rechts vor links is, IMHO, an imbecilic solution to the problem of dealing with uncontrolled (or all stop) intersections. It completely fails when two drivers are approaching an intersection from opposite directions - particularly if they are both turning left at an intersection where those paths would cross. I have…

Thank god for the Germans. The people and the local governments (here) need to take a page from their book. Speed limits are idiotic, except when they aren’t and when the aren’t enforce them. Get out and stay out of the left lane. Add to that “don’t rubberneck.”

“What about the Alliance???”

Go topless!  (There is a white one rotting in a field near me)

“should try and keep up a “stable alliance”·

COTD