Kia Forte

As Hyundai recently did, Kia also has now announced an anti-theft hardware update. The upgrade is free to owners of affected vehicles at Kia dealerships nationwide.

An increasing number of vehicles with sticker prices of $40,000 or less, some much less, offer heated mirrors.

For 2024, the Forte’s GT-Line trim gets some newly standard safety tech, and the GT-Line Tech Package is no longer available.

IIHS has released its annual report cataloging the vehicles most likely to be stolen, and the list is again topped by not one, but two variants of the Dodge Charger.

The list of model-year 2023-24 cars with manual transmissions skews mostly to affordable models and those that are more enthusiast-oriented, but there’s still a decent range of choices.

After first testing a group of small SUVs, the agency put five small cars through the wringer of its updated moderate overlap front crash test.

Compared to last year’s results, the 2023 study showed an improvement in the overall dependability of three-year-old cars with an industry average PP100 score of 186, down from 192 in 2022.

Our analysis of the best value new cars for 2023 shows that budget-conscious shoppers don’t have to limit themselves to just one vehicle type.

For 2023, the Kia Forte’s FE trim has been benched and is replaced with the LX model, which starts at $20,585.

The list of 2022 cars with manual transmissions skews mostly to affordable models and those that are more enthusiast-oriented, but there’s still a decent range of choices.