Here's your first look at the swoopy, angry new Kia K4

This is the Kia K4. Or at least some of it. The carmaker's next-generation saloon will be fully unveiled at the New York Auto Show next week.

So all we've got so far are these initial pictures. Along its roofline, the K4 sports serious hints of the old Stinger, while that front end has definite shades of Really Big Brother EV9 in there too. Kia is calling its new design language ‘Twist Logic’. Uh-huh.

More conventionally, daylight running lights flank either side of the newly shaped front end. Less conventionally, there’s an extremely slim grille, underscored by a ma-hoo-sive air intake. We’re not told what kind of powertrain the K4 is going to sport but we’re guessing, given the lack of EV in the name and the admittedly handsome touring vibes, that it’ll be petrol-powered and possibly hybrid.

Inside you'll spot a panoramic screen stretching from the driver display towards the passenger seat, and Kia tells us the K4 will have minimal physical buttons for climate control but a rotary controller to help with display navigation.

The K4 is set to replace the Kia Cerato in other markets – the likes of which however, we haven’t seen on UK shores since 2006. Reckon the UK needs something like this?