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Road TestGreat looks, good economy and a huge warranty all work in Optima's favour.
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LaunchesThe all-new replacement for the out-of-date Magentis.
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Road TestLike the Kia range in general, there are good and bad things about the 2011 Rio.
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Road TestA fine city car with a tax-busting CO2 figure.
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LaunchesThird-generation Picanto represents a major advance by Kia.
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Road TestDoes a Kia Sportage really need to have four-wheel drive? Perhaps not.
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Road TestWe can't possibly like the Venga when the ride and visibility are as bad as this.
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LaunchesAlready an award winner just as it was coming to market, and rightly so.
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Road Test2010 Sorento excellent in many ways, but we didn't like the ride quality at all.
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Road TestAlready impressive cee'd estate became even better in 2009.
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LaunchesKia aims at the MINI and Fiat 500 with the style-oriented Soul.
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LaunchesThird-generation Sorento can cost up to £30,000 - and it's worth it.
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LaunchesRevised Picanto had different looks and a new naming system.
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LaunchesKia revised the cee'd less than three years after it was introduced, and made a very good job of it.
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Launches2006 version of the Carens provides stronger opposition to compact MPV rivals.
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Road TestOriginal Sportage was pretty terrible - this 2005 version was outstandingly better.
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Road TestFabulous ride quality and impressive room for passengers and luggage.
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Road TestFront-wheel drive 2007 Sportage makes sense - but why is it only available as an automatic?
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Road TestIn-your-face Soul Original looks cool, but can the people it's aimed at afford it?
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Road TestCalifornian-styled Soul is a triumph of form over function.
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Road TestNew Sedona a worthy successor to the large, practical and cheap original.
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Road TestEarly Rio test from the days when the petrol and diesel versions cost the same.
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Road Test2006 Rio diesel became more expensive literally as we were driving it.
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Road TestThis was the cheapest Rio you could buy in 2005, but we'd have spent extra money for the diesel.
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Road Test2008 Picanto is essentially a restyled version of the original car launched four years earlier.
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Road TestForgettable - and almost forgotten - Magentis still has ways of appealing to us.
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Road TestHigh-economy, low-CO2 version of Kia's much improved cee'd hatchback.
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Road TestSecond-generation Carens MPV offers a lot of space at relatively low cost.
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Road TestA Land Rover Discovery-owning friend nearly choked with laughter when I parked outside her house in the Sorento. Once she had...
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Road TestThe Magentis reminds me of the way medium-sized family cars - repmobiles, if you will - used to be back in the early 1990s....























