THINK OF ITS BOYS AND GIRLIES

Question:
AGREE OR NOT

Choices:
YES
NO

 

come on boys and s girls you want to vote.

regrards john firth the carpet fitter
and palaminiras mate

i'm starting to get a beta volumex hpe flavour from you .... surely not ....

Lancia are back in the UK themselves next year
with 1 or 2 new models

I think the new breed of Kia's will change the image of Kia in much the way that the new Skoda's have transformed their image.

The forthcoming Cee'd looks like a nice car.

There was a Kia Cee'd (in black) in Meadowhall last week. It had all the badges removed and there was a competition to win one if you could guess which brand of car it was.

Coincidentally there were adverts all over Meadowhall for the new Toyota Auris, showing a black car side on. As I was filling in my entry form I noticed someone else was writing "Toyota" on their entry while wearing a smug grin...

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Originally posted by s2green:
There was a Kia Cee'd (in black) in Meadowhall last week. It had all the badges removed and there was a competition to win one if you could guess which brand of car it was.

Did it look any good? Did it have an air of quality? Was the interior a nice place to be?

Cee'd is a daft name. What on earth is it an abbreviation for?

And why use an abbreviation as a model name? Very strange behaviour indeed.

Exterior is an improvement over the appalling Kias of old, but then it couldnt possibly be any worse.

Interior - what on earth are the doing? It looks like a Sega Megadrive combined with one of those motor-racing arcade game machines in a motorway service station.

Ghastly.

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Originally posted by Palmira:
Interior - what on earth are the doing? It looks like a Sega Megadrive combined with one of those motor-racing arcade game machines in a motorway service station.

The MegaDrive was a very cool looking console. Lightweight too. Almost square with a circular top and a neat slot for the cartridge. Well engineered too.
I don't think you really mean a MegaDrive do you Palmy?

Maybe not, because as you say , the MegaDrive was actually well engineered.

I still wouldnt want the interior of my car to look like one though..

My point was that I think the interior looks like that of a games console from the 80s, or an arcade racing game. Awful wouldnt you agree alfisti?

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Originally posted by s2green:
There was a Kia Cee'd (in black) in Meadowhall last week. It had all the badges removed and there was a competition to win one if you could guess which brand of car it was.

Coincidentally there were adverts all over Meadowhall for the new Toyota Auris, showing a black car side on. As I was filling in my entry form I noticed someone else was writing "Toyota" on their entry while wearing a smug grin...

I hope you put toyota Auris !!!
cause I read something recently that toyota were puting the Auris in Meadowhall, Braehead, Bluewater and a few other shopping centres to see what the public think of toyota's new baby

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I hope you put toyota Auris !!!
cause I read something recently that toyota were puting the Auris in Meadowhall, Braehead, Bluewater and a few other shopping centres to see what the public think of toyota's new baby

Ha ha!

I stuck with Kia on my entry... it might have some small similarities to the Auris but it is easy to spot the difference.

Maybe Toyota had a corner to themselves too?

I do think Kia have made a good effort with this car. Compared to my Picanto and a Rio loaned, the quality of the interior is a step up, although I wouldn't say it is up to the same levels as the current Focus or even the Astra. Seems to have good equipments levels too for the cost - a cost which I would have thought will be well below the other cars in the sector.

At the end of the day, you get what you pay for! I didn't buy a Kia for state-of-the-art design or expensive gadget filled interiors, I just needed a reliable, afforadable car that would see me through uni.

KIA exist to service the market for people who think 4 year old second hand cars are bangers, personally i would by 2nd hand rather than kia

My Mum's got a Corolla. That's full of solid plastics. The interior looks horrible and it's hardly go pleasantly tactile surfaces but it'll be around in 200 years just like the rest of the car.

The Cee'd is a Corolla rip-off but it's not even got the Toyota reliability promise.
I'd bet that you could tow a Corolla behind an ocean liner for a year and it'd still be able to drive off afterwards.

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Originally posted by Dave the nutter:
KIA exist to service the market for people who think 4 year old second hand cars are bangers, personally i would by 2nd hand rather than kia

A little harsh I think! I didn't rush into buying a car uneducated you know.

My Picanto isn't a bad car at all, and I do think that it will run for much longer than a car that already has 4 years on the clock before needing attention. If I had bought a 4 year old car at the time, it would now be 6 years old - obviously each car is individual but eventually a car of that age is going start to tire a little. MOT costs are minimal, but if a car starts to need a new clutch or gearbox, or starts having electrical faults these could cost a fair bit. A friend of mine has just spent over £700 on new brake pads, calipers and discs on a 52 plate Megane with just 30,000 miles on.

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Originally posted by Alfisti147:

I'd bet that you could tow a Corolla behind an ocean liner for a year and it'd still be able to drive off afterwards.

Is that a challenge? At least it would be more interesting than driving it. Perhaps TG can do it in the new series...