Kia Telluride Gears away For Rebelle Rally With 1.5-Inch Lift And Skid Plates

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This year’s Rebelle Rally begins on 12, and Kia will campaign a modified 2024 Telluride X-Pro SUV october. The automaker made tweaks that are minor the design before allowing it to go across around 1,600 kilometers of Ca and Nevada wilderness.

The Telluride includes a few enhancements, including a roof rack and back and front bumpers from Baja Forged. The newest bumpers enhance the SUV’s method and deviation perspectives, using the services of the 1.5-inch suspension system raise to boost the model’s off-road ability and offering it almost 10 ins of floor approval.

Kia safeguards the vehicle’s bits that are oily skid plates, with BFGoodrich T/A K02 tires wrapping around eighteen-inch KMC716 wheels that sit at all four corners. The Telluride also receives tow hooks, just in case.

Verena Mei will be driving the Telluride in this rally that is year’s. Susie Saxton will act as the navigator. Steven Center, Kia America’s COO and vice that is executive, said the company is “eager to see” what the Telluride X-Pro can accomplish in this year’s event.

This isn’t Kia’s time that is first the Rebelle Rally with a Telluride. The car maker got the SUV to their basic trip in 2020, narrowing lacking a finish that is first-place. Last year, the automaker entered the rally with a modified 2023 Sportage, which raced alongside a Santa Cruz pickup from Hyundai. In 2021, the automaker campaigned two 2022 Sorento PEHV crossovers, which took second and place that is third

Kia updated the Telluride for all the 2023 design 12 months. It offered the boxy SUV a facelift that is visual including new bumpers, updated lights, and other tweaks. The automaker also added two new trims that are rugged-ish. The car maker shared during the 3.8-liter V6 motor through the model that is previous, which continued to produce 291 horsepower.

For the 2024 model year, Kia added amber daytime running lights and increased the entry-level model’s starting price to $37,355 (the prices include the $1,365 destination charge). It’s $100 more expensive than before. The 2024 Telluride X-Pro is much more expensive, starting at $51,650, but it does comes with all-wheel drive.

This year’s Rebelle Rally takes place from 12 to the 21 october. It had been the most important women’s navigation that is off-road raid in the United States. This year’s outing is the event’s running that is eighth beginning in 2016.