What if Kia dared to create the brilliant PV5 WKNDR?
This page is translated from the original post "Et si Kia osait le génial PV5 WKNDR ?" in French.
- 30/07/2025 10:21
Awarded the prestigious Best of the Best prize at the Red Dot Design Awards 2025, the Kia PV5 WKNDR concept is striking.
Imagined by some free spirits at Kia, this 100% electric van with a bold look, designed for adventure and freedom, embodies everything that unrestricted design can bring to a new form of mobility: sustainable, autonomous, modular… and desirable.
Presented as a companion for life rather than just a vehicle, the PV5 WKNDR (Weekender) is designed to adapt to all escape desires. With its integrated solar panels, mobile kitchen, modular interior, and versatile platform, the PV5 WKNDR checks all the boxes of the lifestyle vehicle dreamt by road trip enthusiasts, vanlifers, or simply those seeking freedom. This is not a retrofitted camper van or a makeshift utility vehicle, but an object conceived from the start for a nomadic and sustainable use. Its smart cabin transforms into a living room, workspace, or guest bedroom.
A path for Kia’s future?
What makes this concept particularly inspiring is that it brings to life Kia’s Opposites United design philosophy. A bold vision, based on the meeting of opposites: nature and technology, utility and emotion, structure and freedom. This is not just a stylistic language, but a creative manifesto. And the PV5 WKNDR may be its finest expression.
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Far from the traditional dictates of the automotive industry, these concept cars allow imagination to take the wheel. They pave the way for hybrid vehicles in their essence, both tools and living spaces, machines and cultural objects. With the WKNDR, Kia suggests that a utility vehicle can become a source of dreams, that adventure can be electric, and that design can reconcile the paradoxes of our time.
So, what if Kia truly dared? The public, in search of alternative mobility and a reconnection to the essentials, might just be ready. And the PV5 WKNDR, as conceptual as it is, could become a rolling reality.
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