{"id":36697,"date":"2026-09-22T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=36697"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:55:06","slug":"payne-road-trippin-in-telluride-jr-the-2027-kia-seltos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/payne-road-trippin-in-telluride-jr-the-2027-kia-seltos","title":{"rendered":"Payne: Road trippin&#8217; in Telluride Jr., the 2027 Kia Seltos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/09\/14\/PDTN\/91754426007-kia-seltos-fr-34-beach.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Detroit News auto critic Henry Payne took the 2027 Kia Seltos to Charlevoix and back. With 400 miles of gas range and a quiet cabin, it was an easy trip.\" width=\"497\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gnt_pg_img_cap\"><em>Detroit News auto critic Henry Payne took the 2027 Kia Seltos to Charlevoix and back. With 400 miles of gas range and a quiet cabin, it was an easy trip.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Peering out over the Terrain Brown hood of my loaded, $37k Seltos tester, it looked a lot like the hood of the Terrain Brown Matte-colored, $60k Telluride X-Pro SX-Prestige I took to the Detroit Grand Prix earlier this summer. Similar Mad Max grille, black trim, shard-like wheels, chiseled fenders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Walk up to my X-line and the door handles popped out to greet me. Just like Telluride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The steering wheel in my hands was square to better frame the 12.3-inch instrument display in front of me. Just like Telluride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The instrument display is paired with a 12.3-inch infotainment display and 5-inch climate control panel and housed in a hoodless 30-inch screen that is both stylish and practical. Its high dash placement kept my eyes on the road. Just like Telluride.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit News auto critic Henry Payne took the 2027 Kia Seltos to Charlevoix and back. With 400 miles of gas range and a quiet cabin, it was an easy trip. Henry Payne, The Detroit News Peering out over the Terrain Brown hood of my loaded, $37k Seltos tester, it looked a lot like the hood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36698,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36697\/revisions\/36698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}