Enough with the name. The K9 is Kia’s flagship saloon in Korea, kinda like their own Hyundai Genesis sedan. It doesn’t look all that brilliant, but it’s imposing and impressive, and of course, big. The Quoris is also packed with features, in both safety and convenience departments.

Some of the highlights of the car include Kia’s first radar-based Advanced Smart Cruise Control (ASCC) that can even stop the car completely and then make it accelerate again to reach the preset speed. Mercedes S-Class is offering this since 2004 I think. The Quoris also gets Advanced Vehicle Safety Management (AVSM), which works in tandem with  Electronic Stability Control (ESC), seatbelt mechanisms and multiple warning systems as well as the pre-safe belt system. Again, this is something like Mercedes Pre-Safe system.

This luxurious Kia also gets Head Up Display (HUD), Lane Departure Warning System, radar-based Blind Spot Detection, and Around View Monitor system. It is a fully-loaded car then, and it makes all those technologies available to the masses, because at the end of the day it will be priced like a Kia.

Most likely that the injectors are hidden under what looks like to be a two-piece intake manifold and in this picture, the intake is wearing a sound-suppressing cover over the top. You can see the fuel rail connector poking out right above one of the raised parts of the valve cover (has a blue cap on it). We know that direct injection is going to show up in the Gen Vs, but this would be the first time the technology shows up in a overhead valve engine.

This looks to be a truck version, complete with a taller intake manifold to help develop more torque, just like the current truck engines have. The other bits of the engine look brand new, from the front water pump assembly to the shape of the engine’s cylinder heads. The large pulley on the bottom could be an oil pump, giving all the engines a dry sump system that would improve oil pressure as well as increase gas mileage.

You can even make out a small port sticking out right above the pump that would most likely go to some sort of reservoir mounted elsewhere under the hood. Right now, only the engines built at the Wixom Performance Build Center (LS7, LS9, and LS3) have dry-sump oiling systems which are used to make sure the engine maintains strong oil pressure through high-g turns.

The last oddity would be the holes in each of the exhaust manifold runners. This last time GM did this, it was part of an system that helped lower emissions levels in engines from the 80’s and 90’s but within a few years of the third generation small blocks, emission assist systems started to disappear as the engines started to burn cleaner and cleaner. Could this mean that the engines are not as clean burning as the current Gen IVs? Time will tell, but the engine looks as if all the rumors are true, and that this engine is all new, sharing very little with previous versions.

With the new trucks getting ready to debut in the next few months and the seventh generation Corvette most likely going to debut at Detroit in January, expect to hear more news and see more information about the Gen V engines as time goes on.