Overview
- The facelift adopts Kia’s Opposites United design with new lighting signatures and alloy wheel designs revealed in Korea.
- Inside, the crossover gains the ccNC system with dual 12.3-inch displays, a horizontal dash layout, and a new two-spoke steering wheel.
- Kia says the updated Niro will be offered as a hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and EV, with market mixes to vary by region.
- Kia Australia confirms the Niro’s local discontinuation, with the Seltos Hybrid slated to replace the hybrid later in 2026 and the EV3 already filling the Niro EV’s role.
- Australian sales fell to 454 units last year, and some outlets suggest the Niro EV’s future could narrow in certain markets given Kia’s new EV2 and EV3.