Kia’s latest, the Ray Concept, bowed at the Chicago Auto Show, with a sleek, voluptuous design penned by the company’s Irvine California-based Kia Design Center America.

It’s a looker—but we have a sneaking suspicion Kia expects you to remember this one for something other than its visual charms.

You see, it’s is designed to be powered by an all-aluminum 153-horsepower Gasoline Direct Injected (GDI) 1.4-liter engine mated to a permanently-engaged fixed ratio Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT), used in combination with a 78kw …