Kia Motors Australia has announced a fantastic summer offer on its roomy Mentor sedans and hatches to kick off a big new year - $1500 cash back across the full range including both 1.5 and 1.8-litre models, manuals and four-speed automatics, SLX and GLX.

Sharing in the celebrations is Australian tennis great Pat Cash, who will be the star of Kia’s high profile television and press advertising campaign to announce the best deal in Australian car buying.

After the cash back offer Mentor sedan, complete with air conditioning and power steering, has an effective price from just $16,490 drive away and the great looking Mentor hatch comes in from just $16,990 with a similar list of standard features.

And that’s the amount that will see a Mentor, which has been called the best car ever to have come out of Korea, parked in the driveway with no more to pay. But the offer will be limited.

Mentor SLX is a lavishly equipped car for the money. As well as air conditioning and power steering it also receives body-coloured bumpers and mirrors, height adjustable front seat belts, tachometer, wheel covers and warning chimes covering key in, seat belts, door ajar and headlights on.

The GLX, which costs an additional $1500, adds power windows, mirrors and aerial, central locking, six-speaker audio, height adjustable driver’s seat and a tilt-adjustable wheel, split fold rear seats, tinted glass and 14-inch wheels.

"With the cash back offer buyers can now have the luxury of a GLX for the price of an SLX - it’s a sensational offer and one that’s bound to create a lot of traffic for Kia dealers," said the General Manager of Kia Motors Australia, David Hughes.