Given the limitations of many in the class, the Kia actually can hold its head high, says Declan Colley.

The names Peter Schreyer and Luc Donckerwolke might not mean much to the average Joe or Josie, but in the world of automotive design, they are hallowed legends.

IT may be, as the old saying has it, that flattery is the best form of imitation, but I must say I was quite surprised during my recent test of the new Kia Cee’d by the numbers of people who complimented the car in the mistaken view that it was a new Ford Focus.

FOR two years, I have been banging on about how the "Koreans are coming" and I’m not referring to the military strength of Kim Jong-Un’s recently inherited Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but to the industrial strength of their hated southern neighbours in the Republic of Korea.

FOR two years, I have been banging on about how the “Koreans are coming” and I’m not referring to the military strength of Kim Jong-Un’s recently inherited Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but to the industrial strength of their hated southern neighbours in the Republic of Korea.