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Kia's Flirting With A Bench Seat Over Here

Kia EV5 Concept seating
Kia EV5 Concept seating

Bench seats. While you can still find them in certain pickup configurations, many of us miss having the option in cars. But like white wall tires and column shifters (though those seem to be making a comeback at Mercedes and with EVs) they went the way of the Dodo. Kia just released a design that gets us at least part of the way there.

Kia EV5 Concept interior
Kia EV5 Concept interior

Kia released more details and images of its third EV called the EV5. It’s just a concept right now but it’s set to go on sale in China in 2024; it’s up in the air whether or not we’ll see it here in the U.S. Visually, it comes across as a smaller EV9 and certainly looks cool and techy. While the exterior design is interesting, the inside is even better.

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