2025 Kia Carnival price and specs: More-affordable hybrid grades added

• 2025 Kia Carnival pricing and specifications
• Hybrid now available in S and Sport+ variants, joining GT-Line
• Price rise for carryover grades
• Priced from $50,570 before on-road costs

The 2025 Kia Carnival people mover line-up has expanded in Australia with two additional hybrid variants.

Kia has confirmed entry-level S and mid-spec Sport+ hybrid grades have been added to the updated Carnival, which is marketed as a Model Year 2026 (MY26) vehicle.

The two variants join the existing Carnival GT-Line hybrid, which arrived in Australia 12 months ago as part of a range-wide mid-life update, featuring a revised look, new technologies, and additional safety features.

Priced from $56,100 before on-road costs, the Carnival S hybrid is $5530 dearer than the petrol V6 and $3300 more than the four-cylinder diesel, with the same differences for the Sport+ and GT-Line hybrids.

The mid-spec Carnival Sport+ hybrid costs $68,330, while the GT-Line hybrid has increased $270 to $76,630, with all carryover variants receiving the same price increase for the new model year.

A Kia Australia spokesperson confirmed there are no specification differences between Model Year 2025 and Model Year 2026 Carnivals beyond the addition of the S and Sport+ hybrid variants.

As such, standard equipment for the S and Sport+ hybrids remains identical to petrol and diesel versions, detailed below.

The Kia Carnival hybrid features a 1.6-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine matched to an electric motor and a six-speed automatic transmission, for a 180kW/366Nm total system output.

Combined fuel consumption is rated at 5.8 litres per 100 kilometres, down from 6.5L/100km for the diesel and 9.6L/100km for the petrol V6.

Kia Australia product planning boss Roland Rivero said it will "limit" dealers on ordering petrol V6 cars, with customers pushed towards diesel and hybrid instead.

"We haven't been getting much stock of V6 on the Carnival, for example. Most of that V6 supply is actually going to the United States, to North America. I don't know if it's going to continue that way with the tariffs," Rivero added.

"We've been very limited, and our dealers are very dynamic. They're able to work with what you give them.

"And Carnival up to now has been largely diesel, probably 90-plus per cent diesel, with very little V6 petrol."

• Carnival S petrol – $50,570 (up $270)
• Carnival S diesel – $52,800 (up $270)
• Carnival S hybrid – $56,100 (new)
• Carnival Sport petrol – $56,470 (up $270)
• Carnival Sport diesel – $58,700 (up $270)
• Carnival Sport+ petrol – $62,800 (up $270)
• Carnival Sport+ diesel – $65,030 (up $270)
• Carnival Sport+ hybrid – $68,330 (new)
• Carnival GT-Line Lite petrol – $66,770 (up $270)
• Carnival GT-Line Lite diesel – $69,000 (up $270)
• Carnival GT-Line petrol – $71,100 (up $270)
• Carnival GT-Line diesel – $73,330 (up $270)
• Carnival GT-Line hybrid – $76,630 (up $270)

Note: All prices above exclude on-road costs.

• Eight seats
• Dusk-sensing, reflector-type LED headlights with auto high beams
• 17-inch black alloy wheels with temporary spare (petrol, diesel) 
• Tyre repair kit (hybrid)
• Black side sill inserts and body-coloured door handles
• 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen with wireless/wired Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, AM/FM radio, Bluetooth, Kia Connect support, over-the-air software updates
• 4.2-inch instrument display with digitised speed, rpm readouts
• Eight-speaker sound system
• Keyless entry and start (new to base S)
• Air conditioning with second and third-row vents
• Cloth seat upholstery
• Six-way driver and four-way front passenger manual seat adjustment
• Plastic steering wheel and gear selector
• Metal-look interior accents
• Nine cupholders, four bottle holders and three phone holders
• Four USB ports
• Power-adjustable heated side mirrors
• Auto up/down driver's window
• Rear-view camera
• Front and rear parking sensors
• Autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian, cyclist, junction-turning detection
• Adaptive cruise control
• Lane-keep assist
• Lane-following assist
• Blind-spot monitoring with braking support
• Rear cross-traffic alert (warning only)
• Driver attention warning
• Speed sign recognition with over-speed alert
• Door exit warning
• Rear occupant alert
• Eight airbags, including front-centre airbag

• 18-inch alloy wheels
• LED combination tail-lights
• Highway Driving Assist 1 semi-autonomous driving system
• Synthetic leather-look seat upholstery
• Synthetic leather-look steering wheel and gear shifter covering
• Wireless phone charger
• Satellite navigation
• DAB digital radio
• Tri-zone climate control (two front, one rear)
• Auto-folding side mirrors
• 'Aero blade' windscreen wipers

• 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster
• Blind Spot View Monitor
• Rain-sensing wipers
• Power-sliding side doors
• Heated front and outboard second-row seats
• Eight-way power-adjustable driver's seat plus two-way driver lumbar
• Eight-way power-adjustable front passenger seat
• 360-degree surround-view camera
• Side parking sensors
• Hands-free power-operated tailgate
• LED front fog lights
• Highway Driving Assist 2 with assisted lane changes
• Upgraded autonomous emergency braking with junction crossing, oncoming lane change detection
• Door exit assist (delays opening of doors if oncoming vehicle detected)
• Braking abilities for rear cross-traffic alert
• Auto up/down windows (front passenger, second-row side)
• Auto-dimming centre rear-view mirror
• Rear privacy glass
• Woodgrain-look dashboard inserts

• 19-inch alloy wheels
• Dual sunroof with tilt and slide functions on front pane
• Rear window sunshades
• Two USB ports in third row of seats
• Matte chrome faux skid plates
• Chrome door handle accents, side sill inserts
• Acoustic film on windscreen
• LED interior lights
• Luggage net
• Eight-way power-adjustable front passenger seat, front passenger and rear auto up/down windows deleted

• Projector LED headlights
• Shift-by-wire gear selector
• Heated steering wheel with shift paddles
• Eight-way power-adjustable driver's seat plus four-way lumbar
• Ventilated front seats with memory
• 12-speaker Bose premium sound system
• Head-up display
• Digital rear-view centre mirror
• Remote Smart Park Assist
• Gloss black interior accents
• Dynamic Speed Compensation
• Eight-way power-adjustable front passenger seat, front passenger and rear auto up/down windows re-added; GT-Line hybrid retains 18-inch alloy wheels

• Ceramic Grey – no-cost
• Astra Blue – $700
• Flare Red – $700
• Panthera Metal – $700
• Snow White Pearl – $700
• Deep Chroma Blue (Sport+ and above) – $700
• Aurora Black Pearl (Sport+ and above) – $700

Jordan is a motoring journalist based in Melbourne with a lifelong passion for cars. He has been surrounded by classic Fords and Holdens, brand-new cars, and everything in between from birth, with his parents’ owning an automotive workshop in regional Victoria. Jordan started writing about cars in 2021, and joined the Drive team in 2024.

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