Peter Schreyer was the guy to gave this Telluride a handsome and beefy look, but he was also the designer of the ill-fated Borrego. But Peter did absolutely excellent with the Telluride. I love the front end design. I do not like that LED headlights are only available on the top SX trim. Those headlights also come with a cool amber daytime running light. Lower models get halogen everything, but get the same DRL design, but in white. Fog lights are again, only on the SX trim, and they are also LED, which is a nice touch. The front grille is big and prominent, and the Telluride wears it well. Some say it looks like a direct copy of the GMC Yukon, but the Telluride has no part that looks similar to it. The Telluride has a very distinctive front end, and looks really good with the Tiger Nose grille on the front of it. Well then again, there's no mistaking this for something else cause Telluride is spelled out above the hood...

Coming to the side, the Telluride is shorter than most of the competition. It is also really boxy, which will definitely improve cargo capacity. On the side of the Telluride, there isn't too much to talk about, other than the SX trim is the only one to get black 20-inch wheels, and that makes me sad. I love the black wheels, and I wish they'd be available on the other trims. The EX wheels don't really fit the Telluride well, and I think that they should be larger in size. The Telluride also has this particularly quirky extension of the bright window trim that goes two or three inches above the base of the B-pillar, and honestly it is a nice touch, but I think it would be just as appealing if Kia just kept it at a flat level.

Out back, the Telluride shows its unique styling, and also continues with the blocky look that the whole car echoes. The inverted J-shaped taillights are personally the coolest design in the industry, but I do not like how the EX and SX trims get LED taillights as standard equipment. In addition, the Telluride's turn signals are integrated into the brake light, but I think that the turn signals move to the red reflectors down there just below the liftgate on LX and S models. The TELLURIDE badge is spelled out again on the rear hatch. Something I really hate and will completely burn onto the Telluride is that the only way to get a power liftgate is on the EX and SX. I'm sure it wouldn't cost that much to make a power liftgate standard. Although the rear of the Telluride leaves a little bit to desire, the Telluride is a great looking car on the outside.

The Telluride is also filled to the gills with extremely advanced technology, even some of the first ever applications of certain tech features on a Kia. Let me give you two of my most favorite features. The first is this feature that is called Blind-Spot View Monitor (BVM). Let's say you are driving on the highway and need to exit off the lane, but you can't see a Toyota Corolla travelling right next to you. When you signal, the Blind-Spot View Monitor (BVM) will project an image of the corresponding lane on the instrument cluster with a live video of what is beside you from the side-view mirror-mounted cameras. Best part is that the Telluride doesn't do it like Honda where it is only on the passenger side... they do it on BOTH SIDES. TAKE THAT, HONDA!!! Unfortunately, the BVM is standard on the SX trim, and personally I think that it should be on every single Telluride, and in fact, on every single automobile.

The second feature is called Highway Driving Assist (HDA). Go get some popcorn and get seated, folks. This here is about to blow your mind. Available on the EX trim and standard on the SX, this Highway Driving Assist system gives the Telluride the ability to practically drive itself. How does it do it? Well, it uses the Smart Cruise Control w/ Stop and Go (SCC) to identify cars that are slowing down, even to a stop. It also uses both the Lane Following Assist (LKA) and the Lane Keeping Assist (LKA) systems to identify lane markers. You may be wondering why it actually uses two types of lane identifying and assistance. Well here's my explanation. If the lanes are not clearly marked, covered in snow or mud, and can't be picked up by the sensors, then the Telluride will switch to Lane Following Assist (LFA) which tracks the exact path of the vehicle in front of you to keep you centered in your lane. Once the Telluride can see the lane markers, it will switch back to Lane Keeping Assist (LKA). That is really cool, as some cars can't drive themselves if there is snow or rain on the roads. Tesla can't even do that.