00:00Hi guys and welcome to DriveSpark, I'm Rameet and today what we are driving is the Kia Seltos.
00:11Now this is not the new Seltos, this is the previous generation Seltos and why am I doing
00:15this video is because the people who have the old Seltos, especially the 1.5 litre turbo diesel one
00:21and who are looking to get a pre-owned Seltos, especially this variant which is the GTX Plus,
00:27the 1.5 litre turbo diesel, I'll be telling you how fuel efficient this engine is and it is a very
00:34robust engine with a very very good gearbox. So I'm sure that this video will be helping those
00:39people who are looking to buy a pre-owned Seltos or they already have the previous generation Seltos
00:44with them. So now let's quickly start the car and before starting let me just show you the key of
00:49the vehicle. So this is how the key of the vehicle looks like, you have lock unlock button, button to
00:54hold and it's basically a remote start from outside and a button to open the boot. Now let us start
01:00this start stop button over here and that is how the startup looks like. Well let me just show you
01:07the car from outside. So as I mentioned this is the GTX Plus turbo diesel variant. So this is what
01:15you can expect from the front. You have connected DRLs, LED headlights, LED indicators and you also get an
01:21LED fog light over here. You get ADAS, level 2 ADAS. That's the lower part is the radar and that's how it
01:30looks from the front. That is the alloy wheel. Now you get these 18-inch alloy wheels. That profile is 215, 55,
01:3615, pretty wide tyre. Good ground clearance. This beautiful colour, chrome on the side and that is how the
01:44rear section looks like. You have a connected tail light right over here. GT line badging. Since this is the
01:50GT line variant and you also get this Seltos badging right over here. So let's quickly open the boot.
01:57And that's how big the boot is. 60-40 split right over there. Camera is right over here. Wiper with a washer.
02:05Shark fin antenna, a big sunroof, functional roof rails and that's how the three-quarter of the car
02:10looks like from the rear. Good looking car, good looking colour. Let's quickly check out the interiors.
02:16Starting from the rear section. Sun blinds over here. Manual. You get a Bose surround sun system.
02:22Some brushed aluminium. Piano black finishing over here. And that is how the seat looks like. It's a 60-40 split,
02:29three adjustable headrest. You get this armrest or two cup holders. That is your air purifier. And also
02:35you get type-c charging socket. AC vents over here. And now let's check the front end out. So that is how
02:45the front end looks like. Window controls your Bose surround sound system. GT line badging on the seats.
02:51Ventilated seats. This side of the seat, the driver side is electronically adjustable. Let's quickly sit
02:58inside. And the noise that you hear is from this air purifier. Obviously it will go down a little bit
03:06as and when the cabin reduces the, I mean improves the air quality. Touch screen. There you go.
03:15That's your touch screen. And if you see over here is your instrument cluster. And obviously you have
03:22a lot of settings that you can do. You can change it according to that. You can change the theme.
03:26That is your steering wheel, flat bottom steering wheel, ceremonial controls. Steering wheel can be
03:32adjusted for tilt and telescopic both. So one second, just let me get the, yep, tilt and telescopic both.
03:40You have paddle shifters over here, two-zone climate control, soft touch materials over here,
03:45auto-rimming IRBM, your sunglass holder, and that's your big panoramic sunroof. Well, that's the dashboard of
03:52the car. And now let's quickly go and drive it. And before I go, let me show you this. So you can
03:58see over here, it's right now, the car has been idling and we have been standing at one place only,
04:02but you can check 13.1 kilometers it is showing. Let me just go to the stats once. See our
04:09tire pressure monitoring system as well. And this is the stats. So after we refuel, this is the one
04:16that was showing over here. So we went around 95.5 kilometers, almost 96 kilometers in the city.
04:2113.1 is what it is showing right over here. So as I was mentioning that this engine,
04:28which is a 1.5 liter turbo diesel engine, this is a very, very robust engine, very fuel efficient
04:33engine. And if we talk about power figures, then obviously this produces around 114 VHP and 215 NM.
04:40It comes either mated to a manual or this one, which is a top converter gearbox. It is fabulous.
04:47This gearbox, let's quickly go driving. Let's buckle up and show you what exactly this engine can do and
04:55how punchy is it. So if you talk about driving modes, you have three driving modes from here.
05:00Before going, let me just show that we have eco, normal and sport. And then you have traction control
05:04mode that is snow, mud and sand that basically alters with your, um, traction control system.
05:10This is a front wheel drive car. It's obviously not an four by four or a four wheel drive car.
05:16So let's quickly go auto hold. And if you talk about safety, obviously airbags, level two ADAS,
05:21everything it's got, but this is about this engine. So 114 PS of power, 250 NM peak torque,
05:27pretty punchy engine and made it to this gearbox, which is a six speed torque converter is absolutely
05:32fabulous. As I mentioned, it's almost showing around 13 right now, but if you're light on the pedal
05:37within the city, you can get up to 14 and a half, 15 kilometers to a liter within the city. I'm talking
05:43from bumper to bumper traffic, which is actually a very, very good thing. And, uh, if, uh, we talk
05:49about, uh, the highway mileage, the highway mileage is really, really good. And, uh, and highway,
05:54we've seen a little more than 20 kilometers to a liter. Uh, we've put it on cruise control and left it
06:00there. So that's how we achieved it. So as this is a very, very good, uh, uh, mile muncher,
06:06very good, uh, fuel efficiency it's got. Now let's check out, um, how fast can go just accelerating
06:13from zero and it's on normal mode. You can see almost four and a half thousand RPM is the red line
06:20and brakes are also pretty nice. I'll just do hard braking as well. There you go.
06:26We almost reached 120 and there you go. Brakes are really good. All four discs. It's actually,
06:38it's got a very good bite to it. Just see, I'll be breaking once again. I'll be breaking hard
06:43and there you go. Nice. Actually, it feels very confident when you, uh, when you have like a good
06:51break on a car that goes decently fast. So yeah, mileage wise, it's very nice. Power delivery
06:59is good. Uh, I mean, definitely it has that punch in it because it's a diesel engine. So it is
07:06a lot talkier than your regular petrol engine, but, uh, the way the power is delivered is very nice.
07:12And if you drive within the city also, uh, at decent speeds, you'll get fuel efficiency and highway.
07:17It will obviously deliver. And I think on a full tank, you can do like a thousand kilometers claimed
07:23as around 955 or something, but you can obviously pull thousand kilometers until you like have some
07:29fuel in the car or you have to like, if the car stops suddenly, but you can do upwards of little
07:35upwards of thousand kilometers on one single tank of diesel. That's who I'm talking about the highway.
07:39So yeah, guys, this was the Kia Seltos. The old one, um, engine is the 1.5 liter gearbox is the
07:45six speed torque converter. And, uh, yeah, this is the GTX plus 1.5 turbo diesel. I hope you like this
07:52video. I hope you found this video a little informative and if you liked it, do give a thumbs
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08:00Thanks so much for watching. Take care, be safe and drive safe.
