Kia Soul & Nissan Juke: Comparison

While Nissan Juke plays the mini-SUV, the Kia Soul is more the boxy van. Which small lifestyle vehicle is the better choice? You love or hate him - the Nissan Juke moves with his whimsical face on the border of the (good) taste. included for € 19 890, the mini-SUV features a lush, in the automatic air conditioning, 17-inch wheels, keyless entry and navigation system with rearview camera. Unfortunately, the cars in the space is not quite so generous, because large terminals either with arms or legs bent behind the wheel, and the narrow rear it's still too uncomfortable. Fits into the picture: 251 liters of cargo space are just a joke, want to also be the maximum volume of 830 liters remaining. Compared to the Juke is preparing the Kia Soul (18 950 €) is significantly more fun: It is easy to operate perfectly clear and spacious. The airy feel like it. Soft paint coating gives the factual styled hard plastic cockpit of a higher quality appearance If you are wondering what is to be that switch, you should press this necessarily even know if you have the chance, and then look at the surrounds of the door speakers. As they're lit and make the soul as needed for rolling disco. Ambient light in Korean - a beautiful and pointless gimmick. Kia Soul
Much more important is that feeling in the back of the van housed itself 1.90-meter giant decent and the trunk does not fail nearly as small as its test rivals. In the Kia Soul always fit 340 liters, with folded rear seat back the volume is growing at 1258 liters. Less helpful is working the Suspension of the Korean: be bumpy for the passengers to a real endurance test. The Juke springs more easily digestible, takes curves but not as snappy as the Soul. The tough defeat the steering and roll motions. The engines of the counterparty equal pay little, the soul of the 1600s (126 hp, 156 Nm) works as the rugged but refined, 1.6-liter Nissan engine, which mobilized 117 hp and 158 Nm of torque. Thanks to the low-geared, notchy five-speed shiftable transmission occurs at the nine PS weaker Juke somewhat spontaneous (0-100 km / h: 9.5 s) and runs through stronger, he also absorbs 0.7 liters less than its boxy competitors, the in the test average 7.7 liters per 100 kilometers Super permitted. The sprint to 100 km creates the soul in 12.8 seconds at 178 km / h it is the smallness of one kilometer per hour slower than the Juke.
The bottom line. "Until the suspension comfort, the Kia is the better everyday companion It boasts space, operation, and the more cultivated drive the final knockout was added to the Soul of the Nissan Juke However, price and warranty.

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