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Kia played both ways at the Mondial de l'Automobile de Paris 2010: the concept cars with the tiny pop, and one of the series with the European premiere of the new Optima. A car, like all latest models released by the Korean automaker, has nothing to do with the cars in the drawing terribly bland often associated with these cars before.