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What's New for 2025?
The Kicks is fully redesigned this year, boasting expressive new styling, a stronger 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, available AWD and a revamped cabin with widescreen infotainment (except on the base S trim). A weight gain of about 300 pounds largely offsets the engine upgrade, however.
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"The Kicks certainly looks like a whole new SUV after its 2025 redesign, and we can confirm that it's not just a reskin. The Kicks is slightly larger now and newly available with AWD, while its interior has been overhauled to compete with the latest little SUVs. The highlight is arguably the new widescreen infotainment module that spans from the instrument panel to halfway across the dash. Less impressive is the new 2.0-liter engine, which makes a bit more power than its 1.6-liter predecessor but has about 300 more pounds of Kicks to contend with."—Ranked #10 out of 18 Subcompact SUVs
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Josh has been reviewing cars professionally since joining Edmunds.com fresh out of grad school in 2008, personally driving most new cars on the market every year since. He also served as the project manager for Edmunds' expert vehicle rankings from their inception in 2018, building the product out from the back end to the front end. Josh is a card-carrying member of the Motor Press Guild and a lifelong car nut who has tested, compared and critiqued a ridiculous number of cars in his career.
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