Free $20 Gift Cards at Austin Hot Sauce Festival Compliments of Kia Borrego Experience

Test Drives, Free Food Samples, Cool Zone, Prizes and Enter To Win a Brand New Kia Borrego

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 22, 2008 -- Kia's Borrego Experience comes to Austin offering cool relief for scorching palates at the Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, Aug. 24. Austin is the latest stop on the Borrego Experience six-month national tour. Visitors to the Kia Borrego Experience exhibit can check out the new Kia Borrego before it's in showrooms; enjoy a luxury oasis featuring a "Cool Zone" to beat the heat; and taste free samples in the Gourmet for Less cafe with cooking demonstrations prepared by nationally acclaimed chef, Rich Mead. Those who take a quick test drive receive a free $20 gift card.

It is all part of Kia's Borrego Experience, introducing America to Kia's first midsize, luxury SUV. Visitors can also enter to win a free Kia Borrego, and additional prizes on the spot at the Kia Borrego Experience area.

  Additional 2008 Kia Borrego Experience tour stops include:

  Denver, Colo.      Taste of Colorado, Aug. 29 - Sept. 1
  Cleveland, Ohio    Johnny Appleseed Festival, Sept. 20 - 21
  Phoenix, Ariz.     Way out West Oktoberfest, Oct. 3 - 5
  Tampa, Fla.        Guavaween 2008, Oct. 25

Kia Motors America (KMA) is the sales, marketing and distribution arm of Kia Motors Corporation based in Seoul, South Korea. KMA offers a complete line of vehicles through more than 640 dealers throughout the United States. For 2007, KMA recorded its 14th consecutive year of record U.S. sales. Kia Motors subscribes to a philosophy of building high value, high quality, safe and dynamic vehicles. Kia Motors prides itself on producing vehicles that are exciting and enabling and evoke the Kia tagline "The Power to Surprise."