In this world of digital technology, analogue cars seem to be a thing of the past. Everything in the car is controlled by the computer system, similar to you phone and laptop. In common with these devises the faults on my new car are random and intermittant. The quality of the cabin and info system are great and on par with a VAG vehicle. The exterior looks great and is quite stylish. The car drives ok although not much feedback through the controls and steering, but its a comfortable drive. The boot is a bit small for a long journey with a family of four. On the negative side its powered by a 1.6 petrol turbo engine which is rattly (Old Ford Cortina sounding) at the top end if you push it. Once you have depleted the battery and on a long motorway run you will be lucky to get 37mph from the car. We have a hypervolt charger and we plug the car in every night. The car will run on its battery for approx 30 miles purely on EV mode and then brings the engine into play. It still uses the battery after this for low speeds. On average it produces a combined 135 mph on a 40 mph round trip to work everyday. Beyond this kind of range you are better off with either a diesel or pure EV. PHEVehicles don't make sense for long journeys at all as your dragging around a deadish battery. Whilst driving in Europe we would plug in at car parks or shopping centres but most charging centres only have the fast chargers and chargers for hybrid are hard to find and expensive. The Electric cost to cover the 35 miles or so in EV mode cost more than putting petrol into it. (£7 plus downloading multiple apps) It only makes sense if you can charge at home at a cheap rate which cost us £1.10 per night. As we only do shortish runs the car has reduced our fuels costs by 60%. On the negative side we have had many intermittent electric problems, Rear window stopped working for three weeks and suddenly started working again. The indicators have demonic possession as if the bulbs have gone but they haven't which happens about every three weeks. When trying to open the petrol cap the vehicle sends a message on the screen saying working on it. Its been back to a Kia main dealer 6 times since new and had many parts fitted without a solution. In fact I am writing this just before getting on the bus to go and pick it up again as I have been told its been fixed again. (hahaha) Would I recommend a Kia ? They are good cars. I like mine but I don't love it and I probably won't by a Kia again. I will stick with German. We have 11 year old C Class with 140,000 miles on the clock which gives us 55mpg and starts on the turn of a key without going through some digital start up procedure similar to switching on your laptop. We got the car from new and we have had it for 10 months now but we find ourselves driving the older car when we need to go for a longer drive.
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