The new Kia Rio three-door sees the Rio arrive in three door guise for the first time. Same engines and options as the five-door only a bit cheaper. Kia revealed the three-door Rio at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, and has now announced its arrival in the UK, with expectations the sportier-looking three-door Rio will account [...]
Ahead of a debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show in March, we have the first official photo of the 2012 Kia cee’d, which goes on sale in June. This may be the week of the Detroit Auto Show, but it’s not stopping car makers giving us a taste of what’s in store at Geneva [...]
The Kia GT Concept from Frankfurt is heading for production in 2013, and it looks like it could be joined by a Coupe and Estate. It’s not just Hyundai who are starting to push in to the luxury and performance territory currently dominated by the Germans, sister company Kia is getting in on the act [...]
Kia has revealed the 2012 Facelift for the Soul as it goes on sale in the UK, with cosmetic tweaks and a bit more power. Earlier this year, at the New York Motor Show, we reported on what we called the 2011 Facelift for the Kia Soul. But as it’s now October, and the titivated Soul is [...]
Kia has revealed a new range topping cee’d – the Kia cee’d 4 – with bigger specification and more power. The Kia cee’d – perhaps best known as Top Gear’s latest car for celebs to thrash round Dunsfold – is a decent car. And now it gets a bit more decent with a new range-topping [...]
Kia has unveiled the very impressive Kia GT concept at Frankfurt and revealed it will go in to production in 2013. We’ve been hugely impressed with the way Kia – and sister company Hyundai - has transformed in to a serious player in the car market. And now, having matched the Japanese in the mainstream market Kia, [...]
The Kia 4-Door Concept has been revealed as the Kia GT, a swoopy, 4-door coupe with a V8 engine and heading to be Kia’s star of Frankfurt 2011. We proclaimed the Kia 4-door Concept, revealed last month, as the arrival of Kia as a credible maker of cars other than eco-boxes. And so it is, with [...]
The new Kia Rio (2012 MY) goes on sale on 1st September with prices starting at £10,595 for the 1.25 Kia Rio “1″ . Last week we had the reveal of the 3-door Kia Picanto, and today confirmation that the 2012 Kia Rio - revealed at the Geneva Motor Show in the Spring and first cousin to the Hyundai i20 [...]
Kia is to unveil a 4-door Concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, thought to be a RWD V8 based on the Hyundai Genesis. It really is remarkable, the pace of change at Kia. Once the butt of as many jokes as Skoda at the height of their ‘Skip-on-Wheels’ era, Kia is now a [...]
Kia reveals the 3-door Kia Picanto, a sporty take on the new Picanto. From under £8k, congestion-charge exempt and 67mpg. The Kia Picanto of old was a dreary little thing, best thought of as disposable motoring flotsam; so cheap you could throw it away when you’d finished with it. But the new Kia Picanto – [...]
Kia has given the Kia Soul a nip and tuck for 2011/2012, with a new, more powerful, direct-injection 1.6 litre petrol lump and some cosmetic tweaks. As the car world seems to become more corporate and bland with every year that passes, truly ‘Marmite’ cars get fewer and fewer. But one car that is still [...]
A quick round-up of the jolly April fools japes the motor industry foisted on an unsuspecting – and not as gullible as they think – public. Just as we did last year with car April Fool stuff, it seems to make more sense to do a roundup of what hilarious pranks the motoring world – renowned for [...]
Kia has revealed the Kia Naimo Concept at the Seoul Motor Show, a Compact Urban Vehicle with Electric Motor, Suicide Doors and Oak flooring. This week sees the start of the Seoul Motor Show. Which may not be at the top of our list of must-see shows, but with Kia and Hyundai taking over the world we [...]
After a teaser sketch of the new Kia Rio last month, Kia release details and photos of the 2011 / 2012 Kia Rio ahead of Geneva debut. With the inexorable move by Hyundai and Kia to higher quality, Euro-centric cars the Kia Rio is overdue to be Euro-fied. After all, it’s two years since the [...]
Kia has released a teaser sketch of the 2011 / 2012 Kia Rio, which will debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March and go on sale later in 2011. Kia has come a long way in the last few years. Its cars continue to become more relevant, the designs more contemporary and the cars [...]
Kia has revealed the 2011 Kia Picanto, an all new car featuring the latest Kia design language and new engines. Will debut at Geneva and on sale by Easter 2011. There are plenty of cheap cars on the market. And then there’s the Kia Picanto. Which has nothing to greatly recommend it apart from the [...]
Eighteen months after the five-door Kia cee’d got a facelift, its three-door sibling – the Kia pro_cee’d – gets treated to a similar update. 2011 Kia pro-cee’d facelift revealed does rather imply that Kia has had a hand in teasing a facelift for the grammatically-challenged pro_cee’d. But they haven’t. This reveal of a facelift for the three-door [...]
Kia has revealed a new gullwing crossover concept – the Kia K7 – which will be revealed at the Detroit Motor Show in January 2011. We’ve got used in recent years to the Koreans - in the guise of Hyundai and Kia – presenting more and more credible concepts which go on to become equally credible production [...]
Kia have teased the 2011 Kia Picanto – based on the Hyundai i10 – ahead of its debut at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show in March. Kia are on a bit of a roll at the moment (as are sister company Hyundai) with cars like the new 2011 Kia Optima and the new Kia Sportage [...]
Kia launch another Soul special edition – the Kia Soul Searcher – in metallic green with a big spec and on offer from January 2011. There’s not a lot wrong with the Kia Soul. Or certainly not a lot wrong at the price point. It’s half decent to drive, has half decent dynamics (it’s the same under [...]
Time for another raft of motoring awards, this time the Scottish Car of the Year Awards judged by motoring experts from the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers (ASMW). It sounds from all accounts as if it was a jolly day out north of the border for PRs from across the motoring industry, all travelling to [...]
Kia has release details of the Kia Sportage range and UK prices. Starts from £16,645 for the Sportage 1.6 GDi ‘1’ 2WD The 2011 Kia Sportage launched at Geneva this year with marketing kicking off for the 2011 Sportage – Kia’s version of the Hyundai ix35 – in March, with some convincing campaigns featuring ‘A new [...]
The Kia Borrego FCEV Hyundai/Kia expect to be making 1-2,ooo fuel cell vehicles in the next two years, rising to more than 50,000 a year later this decade. Hyundai and Kia are making huge strides in to the mainstream car buyer’s conscientiousness. They’ve managed – in just a short time – to move from being [...]
WORLD PREMIERE FOR ALL-NEW KIA OPTIMA AT NEW YORK SHOW New name and dynamic look for all-new D-segment Kia Fresh design – bold, athletic and sporty D-segment saloon offers new levels of style, performance and features Two all-new petrol and diesel powertrains for Europe Most powerful D-segment Kia ever with 278ps 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine [...]
Kia has revealed the 2011 Kia Optima at the New York Motor Show, which will replace the Kia Magentis in the UK market in 2011. A week or two ago we reported on the first info on the 2011 Kia Magentis we expected to see at the New York Motor Show this week. But because we thought that Kia would change [...]
