As people have mentioned both my Wife and daughter have Kuota's. Aluminium framed Kuota K-Lite, carbon Kom air and a KOM evo. Our main reason for buying them was they do tiny frames (50cm top tube) and as they were to be ridden by small women wanted them as light as possible. Being small framed bikes they all feel ultra responsive etc and are really light, with KOM in the name( king of the mountains) you would expect them to be.
Only a slight word of warning, my daughter was a prolific racer ( injured 3 years ago no longer races may in the future though, some un-finished business as far as she is concerned) and the guy in the shop said beware the KOM air frame is fragile so maybe not ideal for crit racing, sure enough in a finish line final sprint pile up a seat stay broke. This could happen to any number of carbon frames. We took it to the bike shop to enquire whether it could be a frame fault. They contacted Kuota who said it would have to go back to Italy for inspection and if no build fault we would have to pay for it to be shipped back.
It had been in a crash so I decided just to get it fixed ( fibre HQ in Norwich, 150 quid for repair) . Could have been the bike shop telling porkies but maybe ask your local dealer if they would have to send a suspect frame back to Italy.
I have ridden the bikes and all feel a bit different, hard to compare my daughters bike as she has it set up so head down arse up. My wifes EVO is more to like my set up. I particularly like the KOM EVO as its feels stiff, and agile compared to my old BH and a dam sight lighter than my Battaglin C11.( all have ultegra groupsets)
Oh and dont have matt finshes, both carbon bikes have matt paint one black one white, matt white its a bugger to keep anywhere near clean, the gloss white on my battaglin is a lot easier.