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 GT at Frankfurt: It WILL go in to production
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, […]
Kia GT revealed ahead of Frankfurt
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 […]
New Kia Rio (2011 / 2012) starts at £10,595
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 4-Door Concept heading to Frankfurt 2011
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 […]
New Kia Picanto 3-door (2011) arrives
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 Soul Facelift: New York catch-up
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 […]
Car April Fools Stuff: BMW lead the way
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 Naimo EV Concept revealed
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 […]
2011/2012 Kia Rio Revealed
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 […]