SUVs are the perfect everyday car for younger generations. No, I haven’t gone crazy… While I love a fast, hot hatch as much as the next 20- something-year-old, I believe that small SUVs are the ideal practical daily car for younger generations, something that may take convincing for some people. Appearance is everything in this day and age, especially for …
Kia Picanto 125 X-Line S, one of the best small cars for 2020
There’s often something that immediately strikes you about a new car. Take the Kia Picanto X-Line S…it was the colour. Was it yellow? Was it green? The answer lay inside the car. The yellow. (I concluded) accented on the dash and door armrests. The whole effect gave the car a sort of funky appeal. Perhaps more to young people than …
Kia Proceed GT-Line it’s a Shooting Brake | Estate | Wagon
“Wow!” may not be the first word that ever sprang to mind in association with a Kia but it twice came out of my mouth involuntarily with new Proceed GT-Line – once at the beginning and again at the end of my week’s test loan. The first time was over this car’s unusually handsome looks and, especially, the highly individual …
Review – You’d be better off with a Kia Ceed
“I have always fancied an Aston Martin,” said a friend who has recently come into a bit of money. “You’d be better off with a Kia Ceed,” I immediately answered. At that point, some time ago, I was talking in purely theoretical terms. Having come very close to buying an Aston Martin 30 years ago and having known many Aston …
All-New Kia ProCeed GT, the shooting brake is back
View PostThe Kia e-Niro Review – A New Year, a New Electric Car
Day by day, more and more electric vehicles are being announced, but this month the choice just got a lot better. The Kia e-Niro is coming soon. It was a long way to go to test a family car, and we travelled to Seoul, South Korea for the first drive of the important Kia e-Niro compact family SUV. The new …
My all-time favourite week in 25 years of writing about cars
A week that includes the Kia Stinger, BMW’s i8 Roadster and the BMW M5 Competition, Honda’s Civic Type R and not one but three Honda NSXs might be offered as a top prize in a charity auction for which enthusiasts would bid thousands. Even to me, jaded and cynical as I may be, this felt like a working week that was utterly remote from the ordinary. In fact, it may have been my all-time favourite week in 25 years of writing about cars. Neil Lyndon remembers the week that was… READ MORE
The Need For CEED 3
View PostReviewed the Kia Stinger GT S, a fine Gran Turismo
View PostThe Kia Rio Review 2017
After it had been with us for a week, my wife said: “That’s a very good car. What’s it called?” Neil Lyndon remembers driving a well equipped hatchback, the Kia Rio…READ MORE