Remember a few months back when we talked about how new cars have leveled the design playing field? Well Kia has just proved our point. Yesterday the South Korean automaker released several teaser pictures of their new 2011 Optima, stealing a ‘wow’ from our lips. The pictures reveal a much more modern and, for lack of a better phrase, “grown up” generation of a car that was always thought of as bland and boring.

The Optima will no doubt be targeting the also newly redesigned Hyundai Sonata (a car that’s a bit too curvy for us). Specs on the 2011 Optima won’t be released till the New York Auto Show, however, we are positive that the goods underneath the bonnet are bound to be nearly identical with its Hyundai counterpart.

What do you think? Good? Bad? Don’t care because it’s a Kia and not a Ferrari?

[Kia, Chad Waite]

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