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I'm the old dude around here. I remember quite well when Hyundai, which is Kia's parent company, came to the USA with cars in 1986 or so with the Excel, it gained a reputation of being a total POS. Hyundai ("rhymes with Sunday" was the commercials...) soon had to come up with the first 100,000-mile warranty to get US car customers to even pay attention. 30 years later their sub-brand is competing with BMW as far as architecture and making a driver's car. Progress.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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