2018 Kia Niro LX (USA)
It is now over 20 years since the launch of the Toyota Prius, the car for many that epitomises the Hybrid technology. Whilst the first model, a rather...
2017 Kia Sorento LX 3.5 V6 AWD (USA)
I last drove a Kia Sorento in 2015. I rather liked it, concluding that whilst it was never going to win many prizes for excitement, but noted that it ...
2016 Kia Rio Sedan 1.6 EX (USA)
America really never has embraced the hatchback in the way that Europe has. That always seems strange, as you only have to see how much luggage its ci...
2017 Kia Sportage 2.4 LX (USA)
If you look at the sales charts, country by country, things do not change very much from month to month, or even year to year. For sure there have bee...
2016 Kia Optima 1.7 CRDi 3 (GB)
A decade ago, Kia sold 1,141,000 vehicles in the year. Not a bad figure, you might think, and indeed there are several brands who can only dream of sa...
2016 Kia Forte 1.8 LX (USA)
It was during the 1970s when the position of the traditional three-box saloon as the body-style that was deemed most appropriate for the family car ca...
2014 Kia Sorento 2.4 GDi EX AWD (USA)
Wind your motoring memory back to 2000, and think specifically about the Korean brands that are now an established part of the motoring landscape. Hyu...
2014 Kia Sportage KZ-2 2.0 CRDi AWD (GB)
The first Kia Sportage was launched in 1993, and made its debut in Europe in 1995. Accurately predicting the explosive growth in sales of Crossover ty...
2015 Kia Soul 2.0+ (USA)
Despite what those of us who have sketched out designs for possible new cars on anything from scraps of paper and school exercise books (usually when ...
2014 Kia Venga 3 1.6 CRDi (GB)
No matter what label is put on cars in the class to which this latest test car belongs - be that B-segment Monospace, or Crossover, Tall-Supermini or ...