You could accuse Kia of trickery with the 2022 Carnival, a minivan that pretends to be an SUV, but sometimes you have to sugar the medicine that people need to take. Practical, flexible, and capable modern minivans may be, but for many drivers they’re still far from desirable, even if in a lot of cases they’d be the most sensible option.

Kia’s fix is to give the new Carnival a makeover, cherry-picking styling cues more familiar from SUVs in the hope of sweetening its family model.
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