 Hey guys, Thunder E here and join me on my ride in the brand new Kia Telluride 2023. This car is pretty cool, honestly, it is been a joy to drive, but let's start with just the design of what Kia has actually brought to the table. The Telluride, this is the first time I've actually been in the Kia SUV, it's a seven seat SUV, this is the Telluride X-Line and price wise you're looking at like 45,000, of course you can customize all that stuff, but at that price package you're getting quite a lot. Now physically this thing is stunning, I love the way it looks, I love that grey and black colour, I didn't think I would but looking at it you can just look at the car side profile, front profile looks great, the black grille with the Kia logo looks really nice and is very solid, I like the appealing look of this, this car also comes with a sunroof and the moonroof, you can see the moonroof at the back covers both the second and some of the third row and then of course you've got a sunroof right here. Has a manual cover, this is one of my only gripes here, I don't like that, I wish it was automated but it really isn't that hard to actually close. So you know styling outside the car looks great, it looks fantastic, it feels nice you've got 20 inch rims, when you open up the hood you've got a 291 horsepower engine, V6, really nice, great for performance and I like it. Now stepping into the car, you sit down, you're greeted with a lot of luxury that you shouldn't find at this price point, right? First start off I like the two tone colour system they have here, got this nice brown leather, aerated leather seats, you've got this nice soft fabric on the top, it's darker forward panels, I wish it was wood but hey look we're not complaining and you've got this nice massive wrap around display, two displays here, centre console of course here and your dashboard. Now below that there are buttons for your navigation volume, all that fun stuff. Steering wheel is heated, it is comfortable to use and of course you've got on-board controls on the steering like of course you know your hands-free driving which is great on the highway, it works really well when you have car you know you know marked lanes, if you don't it actually doesn't recognise it so the cameras outside are using that, speaking of cameras you've got cameras 360 camera view all around, you also have cameras for your blinkers so as you're trafficking left or right when you hear that noise you actually see the camera so you don't necessarily have to look, you can look right in front of you and you will see exactly what cars are behind you, I love that I wish every car should actually have that in there. Now the seats themselves are, you've got heated and cooled seats overall, I like it it is really awesome, the reason I like that is because this also matches with the climate control so you can have it automated where if you say drop the temperature and you want it really cool then your seats will cool with you so it's not just the seats, the seat bottom or the seat back as well. Now this is also an option on the second roll which is nice to have so I like that as well having heated and cooled seats on the second roll of the vehicle so awesome there. Now the one thing I don't necessarily like though is the fact that you know your drive modes are right here by your shifter basically you know your park and reverse drive but you've got comfort, you've got sports, you've got smart echo and snow. Now to change those modes if you kind of memorize it it's easy to turn the dials but honestly it's something that you most likely would have to look like and I really don't like that idea on that wish it was something where it was maybe by the paddle or somewhere on the steering wheel making it easier. Now I'm on the highway and driving this car is just super smooth very comfortable if I turn on the hands-free control so you can see my hands are off of course they always tell you to put your hands on the wheel but it does a good job just keeping me in lane it is super great again very just very very simple feature. Now cool thing in this car is that this car blocks out a lot of noise a lot of outside noise on the car which is great so you don't hear a lot of the road traffic and all that stuff while you're driving keeping it moderately quiet in the car as you move around. Now looking at those two clusters in front of me you know as you change those drive modes you actually your cluster will change to match what I sport or snow or you know all that fun stuff. Your entertainment cluster itself is simple I like it because it's simple and it's pretty much straightforward so you know you can go in look into your maps you can hit the buttons to go to say media or change track or you can use it on the screen as well and then you could also go to just the main menu. Now the main menu has you know your climate controls for both front and rear you've got quiet mode quiet mode is cool because it uses the speakers and these are our Harman Kardon speakers they're speakers all around their device everywhere which is nice so you hit quiet mode basically you can have say music in the front and quiet at the back if you have kids that are sleeping so that you don't have the sound just burner all over the car which is great and then you also have the passenger talk. Again if you've got kids you know this is probably gonna be very useful for you is you've got kids at the back in the third row and you're fighting or yelling you hear passionate talk and go like hey guys quiet down or if you've got friends in the car a ton of you want to talk to someone specific at the back you can do that too simple it's easy. Now the internal design aesthetic is super cool really nice and clean I like the spacing on the seats that's enough space in the second row as well so the first row I am taller if you're above 6'2 you will you should find the seats comfortable enough but it doesn't extend all the way back because of that second row now as I mentioned this is a seven row SUV so there is a third row and that third row for someone who is my height is not that comfortable so it's more for anyone you know lower than six feet tall I would say and also kids as well but it is still spacious enough where you can sit down you just won't be cramped that's just something I just have to mention there. Now the other thing about it is that of course you can drop that third row down and give you more trunk space in your vehicle and the trunk space in here without the third row down is decent you can put a piece of luggage or something like that but once you drop that third row down you've got enough space to basically stuff all the things you want to actually put in and then you can also drop these second row seats and then you've got more space in the car. Now what about the driving experience that's the next thing you want to you really care about the car because that's why you buy a car how does it feel driving around all that stuff it is comfortable it is comfortable to drive it felt really nice on the highway and if you want more power you definitely want to into sports mode but I like the fact that it felt smooth if I comfortable going over for a pothole and stuff like that didn't feel like I was you know jumping over the place the drive again like I said just a very smooth drive and felt you know kind of luxurious in a way for a car that is in price like a luxury you know SUV or a luxury car in general so I do like what Kia has done now a couple of things that also I think every car company should copy is the fact that they've got USB ports everywhere and USB Type-C by the way so in front are underneath the media controls and of course several controls you've got your wireless charging pad you've also got USB Type-C and then you've got a regular USB now you open up your center console here you've got charger as well a 12-volt charger and then when you go to the to your second row you actually have charging built into the the sides of the two front seats of both USB Type-C so you can just plug it in charge there and in the third row as well they're two on the sides of the third row so again anyone in the car can fully charge the device and not have any issues that is cool that is really nice and I'd love to see that there again that to me is something that's solid and very simple with a car like this I think overall my experience in the Kia Telluride 2023 has been pretty cool I like the car I like what Kia has done and I like this kind of styling in here hopefully we get a Telluride that is an electric as well I would say on gas mileage it is decent it just doesn't have a very big tank so of course it's an SUV you know what to expect in terms of gas mileage on the highway right now it's telling me I'm doing an average of 14.4 miles per gallon it actually shows you on screen while you're actually driving so that's cool one more thing to mention there is a heads up display and heads of display is also connected to your collision detection so you know if there's a car coming close to you it will you see the collision detection on your side mirrors and also directly on the heads of display will point at to what side if there's a car in front of you in traffic and it's moving boom it will tell you hey cars moving go ahead and move if you're driving in the wrong way the car will try and slow down and tell you hey you're driving the wrong way on the street because they're also using the maps tiny to let you know hey don't get into an accident right you're driving the wrong way so those are some pretty cool things in this car that make it very unique but well that's that's all I have to say and I really like my experience driving the Kia Telluride let me know what you think about the car what you've seen if you like this style of videos I I want to do more car videos and I've talked about that for a while but hopefully you like this style and I'll definitely try to bring more videos to you otherwise guys don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment