Kia PICANTO ; Dedicated Discussion, Owner/ Fan Club Thread

[haaziq]

Just keep an eye on olx and pakwheels. Soon you will be witnessing many more.

[abid110]

Was seeing review of 10th gen PKDM Civic of May 2017.

2 saal Pehle 23lac me kya aata tha...aur ab...

[nfssaad]

they prefer local labor due to low costs. robotics/automated assembly lines are highly capital intensive. they dont make economical sense when your market is tiny.

no businessman would want to invest huge amount of money on automated lines when hes selling a few cars only.

[haaziq]

Toyota is now offering 3 years or 100000km whichever comes first warranty on all its variants now.
We should give this credit to KIA.
Aaj say pehlay ye khayaal Toyota ko kiun nahin aaya ?

[umairalizafar]

The market is small because they haven't looked into growing the market beyond Pakistan's borders. Our industry had a headstart on the Koreans, Malaysians, Thais etc, but they have overtaken us because our industry never thought about export markets etc. As I said earlier, our businesses only work on the seth model. Bus Allah ka shukr he rizq mil rha he, no need to improve. That is why we can't compete with the world and that is why our auto-industry is in shambles.

[hash737]

They have been doing that for last 6 months :).
They do it on all outgoing models in their last year of life cycle.

[waqas.sultan]

These all idiots keeping an eye on imported hatchback segment, 'if consumer can pay 1.8m for used hatches, why not us for new ones.
However, these people r not looking at a big opportunity they r loosing where people still want to upgrade from Mehrans and old cultus/Altos.
Hope they will learn soon.
I still think KIA came up with skimmed prices just to create picanto image superior to Cultus.
Sooner or later, they will introduce striped/basic version of Picanto without Airbags/ABS/power staring/mirrors which will be their cash cow and to churn plant capacity.
I believe still KIA plant is not fully functional.

[arslansarwar]

Because previously toyota never faced any sales crisis. Moreover Toyota offered this warranty on previous models too. Like on limited editions or when they are about to introduce a new generation.
The way KIA introduced their picanto is like they think they have given people a helicopter instead of car. Very strange price tag for a new entrant. I don't think any potential buyer will consider picanto a good and reasonable deal.

[arslansarwar]

To me it really seems like they introduced it blindly.

[nfssaad]

saw an advert from kia yesterday.

they are hiring marketing people

[hash737]

Lol yeahhh. More of them. Just juniors who take orders dont decide anything lol

[nfssaad]

Uploading...

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https://www.careerjoin.com/kia-lucky-motors-pakistan-limited-jobs-september-2019/

[arslansarwar]

Doesn't matter how much they advertise their product. Because price point is something we all have to consider. There are cars that were way cheaper than other competitors but didn't make it. Like faw v2, it was better and cheaper than swift and city but couldn't make it because people didn't trust.
With this price tag, KIA won't survive either.

If this car falls anywhere between 1.3m to 1.4m it will be a good catch for buyers. A potential buyer will still think dozens of times about cultus before purchasing picanto.

[haaziq]

It seems like Kia is upto something, launching its car priced above other cars available in market is not an easy decision.
They might be targeting very few customers in start so that can provide better service & early deliveries as per its production capacity.

[alam2632]

They might be targeting very few customers in start so that can provide better service & early deliveries as per its production capacity.

Makes sense, since the production/assembly plant capacity will not be at par with the Big 3 w.r.t number of vehicles assembled per day.
KIA-Lucky CEO/COO said kinda similar thing during the PAPS 2019 show. They have plans for newer gen picanto but probably they are analyzing the market and I guess becoming a bit more familiar & reliable brand.

[mehran]

Breaking into a new market where well established brands are already selling in good numbers requires discounts, deals, gimmicks, value for money and other marketing and selling tactics which Kia has not used at all. So let's see what happens next.

[danishmmh]

Kia globally is only selling because it under cuts Japanese brands by 15 to 20% and attractive leasing

Here they are demanding premium. @&&holes

[zeus65]

as for as i think, it is not the KIA strategy wholly, it is the LUCKY group which is also following this trend of auto industry in our country. it is this LUCKY group which knows about we pakistani ppl mentality and how to play the market. so it won't matter how many new entrants come in this country, they will always be focusing the trend. and btw we pakistani ppl deserve this. we deserve every thing what we are being served. neither government nor we ppl are doing anything including myself completely to counter any injustice or wrong policy or everything we believe is not in public favour.

[centos]

Picanto is a better product compared to Cultus which is joke of a car. I think the price is justified. If cultus ags costs 19.75 lacs, I wouldn't mind paying some more and get a much better quality car with proper automatic transmission.