In crowded class, Kia's stoic Stonic stands out
THE small SUV market has, in my years doing this gig, gone from being a seriously underwhelming genre — think early Suzuki Vitara — to being one bursting at the seams with contenders, but not necessarily one which is home to a lot of class contenders.
The Suzuki, radical and all as it was at the time with its robust off-roader looks, was still largely a normal machine, what with a simple two-wheel-drive system and no differential trickery. Indeed, there was very little mechanically different between it and, say, a Toyota Starlet.
