This. This is what a good 4x4 looks like. Boxy. Upright. Simple. Not cluttered up with a thousand different character lines and air intakes and all that garbage? What is it? It's the Kia Telluride concept from the Detroit Auto Show. It's also, in my humble opinion, the platonic ideal of true SUV design.

Kia took the sheet off this baby on the first day of the 2016 North American International Auto Show. The Korean automaker says it's based on a heavily-modified Sorento chassis, stretched nearly a foot and theoretically motivated by 400 hybrid horses—270 from a GDI V6, 130 from the electric motor. Kia says this dream machine would get up to 30 mpg from that drivetrain.

Will it ever be built? Kia only offers a winking denial. "While there are currently no plans to bring the Telluride to production, Kia has a history of delivering production vehicles that bear strong resemblance to preceding concepts, and Kia's large SUV is anything but a utopian fantasy."

This being a concept car in 2016, the Telluride also has all kinds of wackadoo technology, like embedded sensors in the seats that measure each passenger's vital signs and uses them to control "a massive, wing-shaped LED panel mounted beneath the oversized sunroof that displays a pattern of therapeutic light to treat desynchronosis (jetlag) and improve the passengers' energy levels." Ooooookay then.

I don't care about that. If the Telluride ever becomes a reality, you know damn well it won't treat your jet lag. But I sure hope it comes looking exactly like this concept. Because it's damn near perfect. The slight but notable resemblance to an XJ Jeep Cherokee is just coincidence.

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