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Tuesday, March 16th 2010

All the latest news from Kia Motors (UK) Ltd

Kia secures Avery Berkel fleet deal

Kia Motors (UK) Ltd in conjunction with its Business Specialist Dealer, Brindley Kia of Wolverhampton, has secured a deal to supply 92 cars over three years to Avery Berkel, a market-leading supplier of retail weighing solutions The fleet of cee’d EcoDynamics SWs will prove ideal for Avery Berkel’s nationwide network of service engineers as they carry [...]

Kia Venga 1.4 petrol & CRDi EcoDynamics road test

The new Venga uses the Kia small car platform first used on the Soul. Unlike the mini SUV-style Soul, the Venga is a B-segment supermini with mini MPV styling and more interior space than the funky, youth-orientated Soul, and as much space as some bigger, C-segment cars. Kia Venga consumer car reviews [...]

Model update: the new Kia Sportage

The all-new Kia Sportage will show a dramatic shift in design direction when it makes its world premiere at the Geneva Motor Show on 2 March, 2010. Embodying Kia’s new visual dynamism, all-new Sportage is a fresh, bold, athletic and sporty design that blends the key features of an SUV – the commanding driving [...]

Kia Sorento 2.2 CRDi 4WD manual road test

The old Sorento was a tough 4×4 workhorse that could tow a laden horse box up Ben Nevis, almost. But seeking broader appeal the all-new 7-seater Sorento is comfier, quieter, more family orientated and stylish. And it’s now even available in 2WD guise, but has it gone too soft? Kia Sorento consumer car reviewsKia Sorento [...]

Kia Ceed 2 1.6 CRDi EcoDynamics 5dr road test

Korean carmaker Kia could be accused of coming to the green car party a little late – with its green badge ecoDynamics arriving a couple of years after many of its rivals. The first car to be launched under the green banner is a version of their popular cee’d model. With its mighty 7 [...]

Drivers spend 13 weeks of working life at a stand still

Frustrated commuters spend more than two days (49.5 hours) each year stuck in stand-still traffic on Britain’s roads, it has been revealed. Daily jams and queues blight 71% of the UK workforce who make the journey to work by car. The average commuter spends 47 minutes on their journey, 12 minutes of which is spent either [...]

Jeff Banks inspires Kia

Local dealership Loughborough Kia recently hosted a visit from a very rare guest – a unique Kia Soul designed exclusively by Jeff Banks for fashion retailer Matalan.  The one-of-a-kind car was styled by the celebrated designer for an in-store competition that Matalan will be launching to its customers in the winter. The ‘Unwrap a car for [...]

Kia Soul Burner road test

The car that is splitting opinion all over the country is the Kia Soul; either love it or hate it there is no denying its ruffled a few car design feathers. One of a growing number of crossover cars appearing on the roads, the car is difficult to neatly place in one car segment. [...]

Kia Sorento 2.5 litre CRDi XS road test

The Kia Sorento is the largest model currently in production from the Korean manufacturer, offering a huge amount of space to comfortably accommodate five adults and still hold plenty of luggage. All variants have the same meaty 2.5-litre turbodiesel at their heart which has plenty of grunt for the car to be a good [...]

Kia Motors Posts 22.4% Increase in June Global Sales

Kia Motors Corporation announced today its global sales figures (export sales, domestic sales, and sales from overseas plants) for passenger cars, recreational vehicles (RVs), and commercial vehicles for June 2009, recording a total of 158,394 units sold. This marks a year-on-year increase of 22.4%. By region, Kia posted year-on-year sales increases in Korea (46,006 units [...]

Kia Donates Soul To Community Of Horsham South

Toll House Kia has donated a Kia Soul to the residents of Horsham South and their team of Police Community Support Officer’s (PCSOs), in order to patrol the streets as part of their routine street briefings and the general safe-keeping of Horsham South’s communities. "The car is as highly visible as we are!" says PCSO Charlotte [...]

Motor Trader names Kia as Car Franchise of the year

Leading industry publication, Motor Trader, has named Kia Motors its Car Franchise of the Year at their annual award ceremony in London. The past couple of years has seen a remarkable rise in the Korean carmakers stock amongst the automotive industry and the car buying public, thanks in part to exciting new product ranges – such [...]

Scrappage Scheme impact felt in June

New car registration data released today indicates that the government’s scrappage scheme is taking effect with news that that while registrations fell 15.7% in June to 176, 264 this was the smallest decline in a year. However, the majority of the improvement in the market is down to private registrations, where sales have actually grown year [...]

Kia Soul Shaker road test

Quirky, eye-catching and hard to pigeon hole the Kia Soul is a dramatic departure for the Korean carmaker in many ways. Is it a mini-SUV, is it an over-sized city car, or is it the increasingly popular crossover model, straddling two or more segments? We’re not entirely sure even after driving it, however we [...]

Kia Sedona 2.9 TS Auto road test

Big, Bulky, and bold the largest Kia available in the UK provides large families the space to travel in comfort, with enough style, gadgets, and appeal to belie its value for money price tag. Available in three levels of trim the TS is the top specification available, with cruise control, leather upholstery on all [...]

Kia warns of possible job application fraud

Kia Motors (UK) Limited is warning people to beware of a fraudulent job application scam that could result in identity theft or possibly the misuse of bank and credit card details. So far Kia is has become aware of only one individual being targeted through a recruitment advert featured on a Middle East website and the person concerned had [...]

Tax doesn’t have to be taxing with Sportage

With the credit crunch biting, Kia Motors has decided to take the strain from customers and pay the vehicle excise duty on new Sportage models for the next three years. The offer is open to customers who buy a new Sportage between September 10 and October 31 2008.  The cost of the road tax for this [...]

Kia to wow 2008 Paris Motor Show with the Soul

Kia will take the wraps off the sharply-stylish Soul at the 2008 Paris Salon de l’Automobile in October. Claimed to be an urban crossover, the car will come to Europe next year with a choice of fuel-efficient petrol and diesel engines. Right hand production of the car is due to go on sale in March 2009, and [...]

Kia cee’d SW 1.6 CRDi LS SW road test

This 1.6-litre diesel engine is a marriage between economy and performance, although unlike most marriages these days this one actually works! After having previously driven the 2.0 CRDi offering from Kia we were under the impression that the 1.6 CRDi would offer a lot less in terms of pulling power and driver enjoyment… how wrong [...]

Kia Cee’d SW road test

Kia has added an SW to the Cee’d line-up and it looks quite good from first glance. With prices starting at under £13,000 for the SW range it certainly sounds like an interesting prospect. We put the car to the test to see if the Korean firm could follow on from the success of the [...]

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