Kia Pro_cee’d review (11/09/2013)

IN the not-so-distant past, if anyone came up to you and praised the looks of the Kia car you were driving, you’d have asked immediate and pertinent questions about the sanity of the person concerned.

It is not so much that Kia used to make utilitarian and cheap cars which bore more resemblance to communist-era production from a variety of Iron Curtain countries, or that its

designs were about as attractive as a biscuit tin on wheels, it was also that Kia was to motor manufacturing what Guinea-Bissau is to international diplomacy — small but well-