Palm Kia

The Kia Sorrento has a lot going for it. An increasingly popular CUV, offering families first-rate amenities in a value package, it's been Kia Motor's best-selling car for 15 months.  It's the first vehicle Kia ever made in the U.S. And, it was the first Kia model to sell 10,000 units in a single month and 100,000 units in a single year.

Perhaps more compelling, however, is that fact…

Kia introduced its new, 2012 Kia Soul, at the 2011 New York Auto Show. The audience went wild over its suite of fresh style updates and mechanical improvements.

Outside, the 2012 Kia Soul has been redefined by late-breaking projection-beam headlights accented with LED running lights and two new earthy-chic paint colors: Canyon and Moss. Inside, the range-topping Soul offers drivers a new hands-free connectivity system, UVO (co-developed with Microsoft), or an optional navigation system. This…