Woah, a small car. What a concept. That doesn't seem to exists anymore here in the US. I'm one person. I don't need three rows of seats. This is what I want.
I agree. I miss small cars so much. After this year the US will have 0 subcompacts (B class) left on the market. And only even a few compacts left as well
The near-extinction of small cars in the USA is why we just bought a used '22 Bolt EV. Efficiency. A neighbor just got a Mitsubishi Mirage, averaging 39 mpg. The most efficient gas car on the market gets 70mpg, but gas would need to be $1.70 a gallon to match our EV cost/mile - or get 145 miles/gallon at current gas prices. I do see loads of small cars around, so the claim they don't sell well in the US doesn't seem to pass the sniff test, yet every US manufacturer is dropping them.
@@ziploc2000 You’re right about something not adding up. They intentionally didn’t advertise their cars (especially American brands) and pushed SUVs and trucks because they can yield far greater profit margins. Same with why all of a sudden you “need” AWD when in the past everyone got by fine without it. Another thing to jack up the price and give the manufacturers $$$
@@JenniferinIllinois Yeah, a small car has everything a big vehicle does, but less sheet metal which is cheap. Smaller profit margin, but sell more units = more profit. We are reaching a stage where people are balking at the insane price of new vehicles now, $65k and up for even "medium-sized" pickup trucks like a Toyota Tacoma (not that anyone makes a small pickup anymore). It may cause a backlash where someone who might have bought a new truck at $40k will now be looking at used smaller vehicles for $25k, and realize that they don't need all that extra metal to take their kids to school and go to the grocery store.
Great car. I bought it 4,5 years ago and nothing broke, even all light bulbs work. It's great with parking in the city, it will fit in smallest park space.
@@boroboroboro-o3wI haven't driven this latest model, I drove a 2019 model on hire, I am going to say that the car drove exceptionally well, I don't like screens and that kind of put me off, I prefer automatic gearboxes, mainly because I drive for a living and I'm lazy, I don't really like driving, but the gearbox is light and easy to use, I think I had a 1.2/1.3 engine, it was very nippy, space is good, fuel economy for a petrol engine was around 50+mpg (I drive a small automatic diesel which I average 80+mpg), I have to say that I've driven the Kia and the Hyundai equivalent, both are very impressive vehicles, I would buy either if I had the money and was forced to get rid of my car, (as you may have gathered, I like my little car more)
Just looked into the 2024 Picanto, and judging by the lack of "artificial Leather / Cloth seats" (yours are cloth only seats) you have the Shadow spec, and the engine for that spec line is the 1.2 4Cyl engine producing 93bhp 83lb/ft Torque. Accel is 13.1 sec 0-60 mph and 98mph top speed. I had one of these a few years ago as a courtesy car, very well speced out always, they're one of the most reliable cars on the road!
These cars are among the most fun to drive these days because of their light weight, sorted chassis and diminutive size. It's just a shame that Kia have discontinued the turbo engine option which was probably the best version and delivered good performance and economy.
Had a 2011 1.2 Hyundai i10 for about a year. Excellent city car and surprisingly good for short 100 mile journeys. Very well equipped and very reliable. The dealership made Mini/BMW, Honda and Audi look distinctly 2nd class.
Nice review. This model is a 2024, Picanto 2, with a 1L engine with 62bhp. It’s the current base model. All models above this one have led lights and there is also a boot shelf which makes the boot level with the folded down seats. The top of the range GT Line S comes with a 1.2L engine.
The Kia Picanto shows that A-segment cars don’t have to be the penalty boxes they used to be. Really enjoyed Jonny Smith’s the Late Brake Show episodes on his Picanto Lands End Trial car.
@@LittleCar, I never clarify mph or kph when mentioning speed ... Probably still 'iffy' doing 130 on a motorway though ... (an old Xantia, the speedo cable broke soon after, wonder why!) The newest car I have is a Kia Picanto (2009, so first gen face-lift when in theory they switched to electric power steering, except mine has fluid, so maybe Wikipedia is not quite accurate in this) When pushed it goes, it has no torque and only 60 nominal horse (though I think some have retired!) How did you find the UK roads - busy and full of potholes, or less bad than you feared!
According to Mycarcheck its just a 998cc engine with 2 spec trim. So a base spec engine with no turbo. So hats off it it managed fast motorway trips so well.
Recently replaced the wife aged Chevy Matiz with a 19 plate Vauxhall Viva ( Splash elsewhere I believe ) lovely drive - small cars have come a long long way
The picanto is a great car. Mine is from 2009 I think, and I really like it. Not sure how it'd do in a crash, there's not much padding, but loads of interior space in such a small footprint. Yours looks very modern, but in all honesty I quite like how basic the older ones are. Most advanced feature in mine is central locking, there's no cuise control, no cameras, no bluetooth, no stop start, nothing that'd be out of place on a 90s car.
I had a Kia Ceed (deleted apostrophe) Wagon as a rental in the summer and was impressed too. It was able to carry the luggage of three adults and Mum as well as her wheelchair when we reached our destination. Shame they don’t sell them where I live, just super-sized SUVs and EVs.
We have a 2012 kia Venga 1.4crd, owned it 9 years & still going strong with 120k on the clock. Used as a sureagate van / dog taxi ( room for a large lurcher & Romanian Shepherd in the boot ). Still scrubs up well & better build quality than some other manufacturers.
A few years back I rented one on holiday with my family of 3 with 3 pieces of luggage and incredibly all fit in with engine grunt to spare. A masterpiece.
Had one as a rental in Ireland earlier in the year, it was a pre-facelift version. A few weeks earlier I'd had the Hyundai i10 and both were good cars but I preferred the Hyundai, it's setup just suited me a little bit more. Both worthy cars and amongst the last truly small cars in the UK.
My daughter recently bought a used 2014 model, 3 cylinder 1.0 68bhp engined VR7 spec. Considering its age, the spec is fairly good, its even got rear parking sensors!! Surprisingly spritely to drive even on the motorway.
I wish Kia would bring the Picanto to the US. The Kia Soul is just too expensive, and with a 17% interest rate, it’s way out of my budget. I figured a car like the Picanto would likely be much cheaper than the
£14,569 new according to car wow. Looking at nearly new price on Autotrader the one Little car is driving will be back on a dealers forecourt for about £12000 in a couple of months. For years the Kia Soul has only been available as an EV here. A new car which would be comparable in price in the USA would be the Nissan Versa. Allowing for currency conversion it is about the same price as the Picanto.
I quite like Kia, but after Kia Germany terminated the contracts with all their dealer in order to negotiate new conditions (better for Kia, worse for the dealers) a lot of them were fed up and left. Now, after we had four dealers in our area, only one is still in business for Kia, while the others switched to another brand or became unbranded workshops. Irony is that the small dealerships that have gone are the ones that made Kia successful and have the most loyal customers. Feels like Kia Germany tries to kill itself.
The chime sounds like a snippet of "gayageum" - a traditional Korean musical instrument. A nod to Kia's homeland? They use the same instrument on the Seoul metro.
i had this as a rental in Cyprus years ago and in Tunisia in Hyundai guise about a month ago. It took me places but it was horrendous inside and out on both occasions. The mailbox in front of my house feels more expensive. Weirdly enough, i liked Dacia quite a lot more and then my bulletproof Audi broke down. Prejudice bit me so hard lately, it's painful to sit now ...
I really like these little cars and I wouldn't mind one just as a daily runabout. I'd probably take the Auto though just so it's even easier to drive through town. The Hyundai Grand I10 seems to be way more popular here (South Africa) but I just don't think it looks as good as the Picanto. Its price is on par with the Suzuki Swift though which just seems to be the much better overall package as a daily, plus there's the Honda Fit/Jazz looming just above for a bit more.
I miss these super-mini and kei car hatchbacks so much. In my country, where the car tax structure being the way it is, such small cars are no longer economical to buy. It's s crying shame, really, as these types of cars are absolutely perfect for city commutes and young couples or new families. Sure it's a squeeze sometimes, but still beats getting soaked in the rain while running to and from a bus stop while praying the person next to you has at least showered in the last 2 days, and isn't a nutter.
Note the registration. That car will be on a Kia dealers forecourt with a nice discount within a year. I bought an ex rental Vauxhall twenty years ago and when I test drove it it had exactly the same sticker on the dash and a large discount. The dealer had four identical ones and took out a half page advert in the local newspaper for them. Questions are How much do Hertz pay per car when they buy by the hundred ? The highest discount I have read about is 45% Do they even buy the cars or just lease / borrow them from the manufacturer ?
As a Kia owner I can share that the problems with Kia is the post sales experience, as well as utterly shocking high prices for some parts, like a wong mirror being 3k + usd. Steer clear of the brand til they mature more.
I had a Forte as a rental a little while back with the same interior design, and it had a completely different chime, and you could disable it in the settings
@@LittleCar It gets the Euro NCAP safety score up. One of the Dacias without such features, was getting one star out of five despite being as safe as any car made twenty years ago.
Honestly I prefer the Toyota Aygo, and the Audi A1 is a slightly different category and drives much better, but yh this kia isn’t too bad but again for the price a dacia sandero is better in my opinion.
4 adults on a Journey Will be very comfortable, Is not a car for Kids only in the back seats like a Fiat 500. You can go even with 5 passengers without problems.. Is not a smart for two car.. Such cars go nice everywhere, don't waste Money in a bigger car of you don't Need It... Even a family of 4 can live nicely in It, of course is not a VW Golf, but trust me you don't die if you touch shoulder to your Brother/sister or friend..
Pretty nice looking city car. Already months ago I did read that Kia killed off the one step bigger Rio, but I still see them available new at Kia dealership here in Finland, so not sure if it's axed or not. Still driving myself a 2016 Kia Rio with 1,25 ISG petrol engine, maybe this engine is still used in the new Picanto?
I've got a slightly older model of a Kia Picanto and it sounds as though either later models have broke, or your car isn't wired up properly with the media buttons as mine are in sensible order. (Or my car is wired up wrong! Who knows!)
My former girlfriend has a second generation 2005 picanto. drives great and has a strong engine but the automatic transmission is terrible and destroyed just 35,000 kilometers.
Why are you taunting us with this little car we cannot get in the US? I love little cars and all manufacturers have dropped little cars from the US market. I am still holding on to my 2012 Prius C, which is no longer available in the US.,
We almost didn't get the latest Prius here in the U.K. There again the Corolla Hybrid is so popular they make them here. Below that we get the Yaris (also as a hybrid) and smaller than that, the Aygo X (although Techmoan didn't rate his and now has a Lexus LBX).
Have you tried adjusting them? I was looking at a Kia Niro and nether I or the dealer (at a Suzuki dealership) could work out how to do it. It turns out that you pull them all the way forward to make them spring back.
I'd argue that Kia/Hyundai and Toyota are making the best mass produced cars at the moment. Ford have fallen off completely and VW have somehow managed to become even more dull. Opel/Vauxhall are just reskinned Peugeot products and Hondas are now mediocre but for the Civic Type R. Their Jazz/Fit was always brilliant but is now too ugly to consider. I bought a second gen Pro Cee'd about ten years ago after test driving one on a whim. I'd loved how it looked since it's release and was thoroughly impressed by how it drove. I had it for 8 years and 320,000 trouble free kilometres.
At least when I rented in UK this summer, almost trivially easy. Which is good, I've been driving for 41 years and have a grand total of 40 miles with automatics :D
In the U.K. if you take your test in an Automatic that is all you are allowed to drive so most driving schools teach in manuals. Before DSG gearboxes, slushbox automatics had such poor fuel economy that few people could afford to run them.
@@MrDuncl Interesting. I did not know that. I'm in the US, and learned on a manual because small, light, under-powered cars are actually fun to drive with a manual.
I'm sorry to report that is the correct (right) sjde ... it allows your strongest arm to steer the car whilst battling the gears on roundabout ... sorry, am I the alien ;-) (in the old days, steering didn't have assistance ...)
Goofy ass car😂 I drive a honda fit sometimes I cant imagine driving something any shorter than it because it gets very uncomfortable over any sort of bumps would help if it had better suspension in the back.
Woah, a small car. What a concept. That doesn't seem to exists anymore here in the US. I'm one person. I don't need three rows of seats. This is what I want.
I agree. I miss small cars so much. After this year the US will have 0 subcompacts (B class) left on the market. And only even a few compacts left as well
The near-extinction of small cars in the USA is why we just bought a used '22 Bolt EV. Efficiency.
A neighbor just got a Mitsubishi Mirage, averaging 39 mpg. The most efficient gas car on the market gets 70mpg, but gas would need to be $1.70 a gallon to match our EV cost/mile - or get 145 miles/gallon at current gas prices.
I do see loads of small cars around, so the claim they don't sell well in the US doesn't seem to pass the sniff test, yet every US manufacturer is dropping them.
@@ziploc2000 They don't sell well really means they don't generate enough profit.
@@ziploc2000 You’re right about something not adding up. They intentionally didn’t advertise their cars (especially American brands) and pushed SUVs and trucks because they can yield far greater profit margins. Same with why all of a sudden you “need” AWD when in the past everyone got by fine without it. Another thing to jack up the price and give the manufacturers $$$
@@JenniferinIllinois Yeah, a small car has everything a big vehicle does, but less sheet metal which is cheap. Smaller profit margin, but sell more units = more profit.
We are reaching a stage where people are balking at the insane price of new vehicles now, $65k and up for even "medium-sized" pickup trucks like a Toyota Tacoma (not that anyone makes a small pickup anymore).
It may cause a backlash where someone who might have bought a new truck at $40k will now be looking at used smaller vehicles for $25k, and realize that they don't need all that extra metal to take their kids to school and go to the grocery store.
Great car. I bought it 4,5 years ago and nothing broke, even all light bulbs work. It's great with parking in the city, it will fit in smallest park space.
I am thinking of buying one, I haven't gone on a test drive. Everywhere I look I am reading good things about it, and the interior looks good.
@@boroboroboro-o3wI haven't driven this latest model, I drove a 2019 model on hire, I am going to say that the car drove exceptionally well, I don't like screens and that kind of put me off, I prefer automatic gearboxes, mainly because I drive for a living and I'm lazy, I don't really like driving, but the gearbox is light and easy to use, I think I had a 1.2/1.3 engine, it was very nippy, space is good, fuel economy for a petrol engine was around 50+mpg (I drive a small automatic diesel which I average 80+mpg), I have to say that I've driven the Kia and the Hyundai equivalent, both are very impressive vehicles, I would buy either if I had the money and was forced to get rid of my car, (as you may have gathered, I like my little car more)
Just looked into the 2024 Picanto, and judging by the lack of "artificial Leather / Cloth seats" (yours are cloth only seats) you have the Shadow spec, and the engine for that spec line is the 1.2 4Cyl engine producing 93bhp 83lb/ft Torque. Accel is 13.1 sec 0-60 mph and 98mph top speed. I had one of these a few years ago as a courtesy car, very well speced out always, they're one of the most reliable cars on the road!
I looked up the reg and it's a 1 litre Picanto 2, which appears to be the base model in the UK market.
998cc with 64bhp apparently, i had one as a courtesy car whilst my Sportage was in for a service and i can confirm that they drive very well.
These cars are among the most fun to drive these days because of their light weight, sorted chassis and diminutive size.
It's just a shame that Kia have discontinued the turbo engine option which was probably the best version and delivered good performance and economy.
Had a 2011 1.2 Hyundai i10 for about a year. Excellent city car and surprisingly good for short 100 mile journeys. Very well equipped and very reliable. The dealership made Mini/BMW, Honda and Audi look distinctly 2nd class.
I’m on my 2nd, my later is more refined. Nice lil 3 cylinder engine, if not underpowered.
Nice review. This model is a 2024, Picanto 2, with a 1L engine with 62bhp. It’s the current base model. All models above this one have led lights and there is also a boot shelf which makes the boot level with the folded down seats. The top of the range GT Line S comes with a 1.2L engine.
The Kia Picanto shows that A-segment cars don’t have to be the penalty boxes they used to be. Really enjoyed Jonny Smith’s the Late Brake Show episodes on his Picanto Lands End Trial car.
It would be amazing to get these cars in America again.
We had the Chevy spark which was similar sized and no one bought it
96mph? Welcome back from your trip to Germany.
Yeah... that's where I was...
@@LittleCar, I never clarify mph or kph when mentioning speed ... Probably still 'iffy' doing 130 on a motorway though ... (an old Xantia, the speedo cable broke soon after, wonder why!)
The newest car I have is a Kia Picanto (2009, so first gen face-lift when in theory they switched to electric power steering, except mine has fluid, so maybe Wikipedia is not quite accurate in this)
When pushed it goes, it has no torque and only 60 nominal horse (though I think some have retired!)
How did you find the UK roads - busy and full of potholes, or less bad than you feared!
It depends where you are. Some around London are terrible, but the ones I was on were fine.
According to Mycarcheck its just a 998cc engine with 2 spec trim. So a base spec engine with no turbo.
So hats off it it managed fast motorway trips so well.
Recently replaced the wife aged Chevy Matiz with a 19 plate Vauxhall Viva ( Splash elsewhere I believe ) lovely drive - small cars have come a long long way
The picanto is a great car. Mine is from 2009 I think, and I really like it. Not sure how it'd do in a crash, there's not much padding, but loads of interior space in such a small footprint. Yours looks very modern, but in all honesty I quite like how basic the older ones are. Most advanced feature in mine is central locking, there's no cuise control, no cameras, no bluetooth, no stop start, nothing that'd be out of place on a 90s car.
I had a Kia Ceed (deleted apostrophe) Wagon as a rental in the summer and was impressed too. It was able to carry the luggage of three adults and Mum as well as her wheelchair when we reached our destination.
Shame they don’t sell them where I live, just super-sized SUVs and EVs.
I think they share a platform with the Hyundai i10, which are also pretty nice wee cars.
it has a real handbrake, a real gear stick and the steering wheel is on the right side. the car was born right 😀
Yeah, I should have said that as well.
@@LittleCar hope you enjoy your trip back home with dad, fish & chips, greasy-spoon fry-up, wind, rain ...
Fish & chips were lovely.
I Absolutely love my Picanto GT best car I've ever owned.
We have a 2012 kia Venga 1.4crd, owned it 9 years & still going strong with 120k on the clock. Used as a sureagate van / dog taxi ( room for a large lurcher & Romanian Shepherd in the boot ). Still scrubs up well & better build quality than some other manufacturers.
A few years back I rented one on holiday with my family of 3 with 3 pieces of luggage and incredibly all fit in with engine grunt to spare. A masterpiece.
Nice little car. I'd have one.
Had one as a rental in Ireland earlier in the year, it was a pre-facelift version. A few weeks earlier I'd had the Hyundai i10 and both were good cars but I preferred the Hyundai, it's setup just suited me a little bit more. Both worthy cars and amongst the last truly small cars in the UK.
My daughter recently bought a used 2014 model, 3 cylinder 1.0 68bhp engined VR7 spec. Considering its age, the spec is fairly good, its even got rear parking sensors!! Surprisingly spritely to drive even on the motorway.
It's a smart little design too. Are you back in the UK now then?
Sort of! I'll be in the UK over the winter.
It's 998cc. You can find details using the DVLA MOT checker
I wish Kia would bring the Picanto to the US. The Kia Soul is just too expensive, and with a 17% interest rate, it’s way out of my budget. I figured a car like the Picanto would likely be much cheaper than the
£14,569 new according to car wow. Looking at nearly new price on Autotrader the one Little car is driving will be back on a dealers forecourt for about £12000 in a couple of months. For years the Kia Soul has only been available as an EV here. A new car which would be comparable in price in the USA would be the Nissan Versa. Allowing for currency conversion it is about the same price as the Picanto.
I quite like Kia, but after Kia Germany terminated the contracts with all their dealer in order to negotiate new conditions (better for Kia, worse for the dealers) a lot of them were fed up and left. Now, after we had four dealers in our area, only one is still in business for Kia, while the others switched to another brand or became unbranded workshops. Irony is that the small dealerships that have gone are the ones that made Kia successful and have the most loyal customers. Feels like Kia Germany tries to kill itself.
The chime sounds like a snippet of "gayageum" - a traditional Korean musical instrument. A nod to Kia's homeland? They use the same instrument on the Seoul metro.
comfy smol car, thanks for sharing
Please bring it to USA would sell like hot cakes an Hyundai Casper 😮
I want to love the Picanto. Styling is great, driving now so much.
i had this as a rental in Cyprus years ago and in Tunisia in Hyundai guise about a month ago. It took me places but it was horrendous inside and out on both occasions.
The mailbox in front of my house feels more expensive. Weirdly enough, i liked Dacia quite a lot more and then my bulletproof Audi broke down. Prejudice bit me so hard lately, it's painful to sit now ...
I wish they'd sell this in the US
Thats a great looking car!
I really like these little cars and I wouldn't mind one just as a daily runabout. I'd probably take the Auto though just so it's even easier to drive through town.
The Hyundai Grand I10 seems to be way more popular here (South Africa) but I just don't think it looks as good as the Picanto.
Its price is on par with the Suzuki Swift though which just seems to be the much better overall package as a daily, plus there's the Honda Fit/Jazz looming just above for a bit more.
I miss these super-mini and kei car hatchbacks so much. In my country, where the car tax structure being the way it is, such small cars are no longer economical to buy. It's s crying shame, really, as these types of cars are absolutely perfect for city commutes and young couples or new families. Sure it's a squeeze sometimes, but still beats getting soaked in the rain while running to and from a bus stop while praying the person next to you has at least showered in the last 2 days, and isn't a nutter.
Note the registration. That car will be on a Kia dealers forecourt with a nice discount within a year. I bought an ex rental Vauxhall twenty years ago and when I test drove it it had exactly the same sticker on the dash and a large discount. The dealer had four identical ones and took out a half page advert in the local newspaper for them. Questions are
How much do Hertz pay per car when they buy by the hundred ? The highest discount I have read about is 45%
Do they even buy the cars or just lease / borrow them from the manufacturer ?
As a Kia owner I can share that the problems with Kia is the post sales experience, as well as utterly shocking high prices for some parts, like a wong mirror being 3k + usd. Steer clear of the brand til they mature more.
6:21 Thanks for calling this out. I went from a 2020 Forte to a 2025 Sorento and this reversal is still driving me nuts 3 months in.
I had a Forte as a rental a little while back with the same interior design, and it had a completely different chime, and you could disable it in the settings
I wish Kia would bring these to the US.
Family guy: “KIA… too bad it’s a KIA” 😂
You can turn off the lane keeping by pressing the lane keeping button on the steering wheel for 2 seconds.
True, but then what's the point of having the feature? I'd like to have it, but not all those false positives.
@@LittleCar It gets the Euro NCAP safety score up. One of the Dacias without such features, was getting one star out of five despite being as safe as any car made twenty years ago.
Honestly I prefer the Toyota Aygo, and the Audi A1 is a slightly different category and drives much better, but yh this kia isn’t too bad but again for the price a dacia sandero is better in my opinion.
quite interesting way Kia made the cluster of the cheaper version to emulate the full tft screen of the top trims
A good car to drive it might be, but all I'd ever want is a very quick look at one.
That looks like a TFT display behind the wheel but actually it certainly is not (except for the small rectangle in the middle), correct?
A segment city car are the car of the Future.
4 adults on a Journey Will be very comfortable, Is not a car for Kids only in the back seats like a Fiat 500. You can go even with 5 passengers without problems.. Is not a smart for two car.. Such cars go nice everywhere, don't waste Money in a bigger car of you don't Need It... Even a family of 4 can live nicely in It, of course is not a VW Golf, but trust me you don't die if you touch shoulder to your Brother/sister or friend..
Pretty nice looking city car. Already months ago I did read that Kia killed off the one step bigger Rio, but I still see them available new at Kia dealership here in Finland, so not sure if it's axed or not. Still driving myself a 2016 Kia Rio with 1,25 ISG petrol engine, maybe this engine is still used in the new Picanto?
I've got a slightly older model of a Kia Picanto and it sounds as though either later models have broke, or your car isn't wired up properly with the media buttons as mine are in sensible order. (Or my car is wired up wrong! Who knows!)
My former girlfriend has a second generation 2005 picanto. drives great and has a strong engine but the automatic transmission is terrible and destroyed just 35,000 kilometers.
Why are you taunting us with this little car we cannot get in the US? I love little cars and all manufacturers have dropped little cars from the US market. I am still holding on to my 2012 Prius C, which is no longer available in the US.,
We almost didn't get the latest Prius here in the U.K. There again the Corolla Hybrid is so popular they make them here. Below that we get the Yaris (also as a hybrid) and smaller than that, the Aygo X (although Techmoan didn't rate his and now has a Lexus LBX).
Are the Kia/Hyundai head restraints still uncomfortable? Everytime I've been a passenger in one my neck hurts. Shame, as they're good cars
Have you tried adjusting them? I was looking at a Kia Niro and nether I or the dealer (at a Suzuki dealership) could work out how to do it. It turns out that you pull them all the way forward to make them spring back.
@MrDuncl I'll have to try that next time. It was so painful it was a deal-breaker
It bothers me a lot more than it should that that logo says "KN"
I also see KN and it bugs the crap out of me!!
I'd argue that Kia/Hyundai and Toyota are making the best mass produced cars at the moment. Ford have fallen off completely and VW have somehow managed to become even more dull. Opel/Vauxhall are just reskinned Peugeot products and Hondas are now mediocre but for the Civic Type R. Their Jazz/Fit was always brilliant but is now too ugly to consider.
I bought a second gen Pro Cee'd about ten years ago after test driving one on a whim. I'd loved how it looked since it's release and was thoroughly impressed by how it drove. I had it for 8 years and 320,000 trouble free kilometres.
It's a 2017? Here in the US, they don't keep their fleet past 3 years
Model launched in 2017. The car he has is a 2024 edition (UK plates have the year in the reg, 24 or 74 mean 2024)
Yup. 2024 model. In the UK the license plate gives away the year. Check out how it works by searching on the web.
How difficult was it to get a rental car with a manual transmission?
At least when I rented in UK this summer, almost trivially easy. Which is good, I've been driving for 41 years and have a grand total of 40 miles with automatics :D
In the UK many cars are still manual, so rentals are as well.
In the U.K. if you take your test in an Automatic that is all you are allowed to drive so most driving schools teach in manuals. Before DSG gearboxes, slushbox automatics had such poor fuel economy that few people could afford to run them.
@@MrDuncl Interesting. I did not know that. I'm in the US, and learned on a manual because small, light, under-powered cars are actually fun to drive with a manual.
I have the Hyundai i 10 and it has the 1.2 Engine looks the same as this.
Daihatsu charade pls
I don't get much of a choice of which rental car I'm going to get!
Daihatsu have stopped selling vehicles in Europe. Kia / Hyundai are becoming more popular.
It shows how much car we actually need - you will not miss that much🙂 Except KIA fixed the steering wheel mistakenly on the right side 😉
I'm sorry to report that is the correct (right) sjde ... it allows your strongest arm to steer the car whilst battling the gears on roundabout ... sorry, am I the alien ;-)
(in the old days, steering didn't have assistance ...)
It's funny, but my wife was looking at one of these the other day, and she's thinking about swapping out of her Nissan SUV.
I've had 2 from brand new. Current one is nearly 10. Never had any trouble, excellent little cars. Couldn't recommend more.
I thought you lived in the US?
I do, but I travel to see my dad.
I found the Fiat Panda and the Suzuki Swift far superior
Panda is amazing.
You were doing 96 on the motorway.😂
I'm sure it's a fine car, but it is miserable. I'd go for a Dacia Sandeo, Citroen C3 or Mazda2 instead. Or wait for a Grande Panda.
That obviously Not a "big car'
Goofy ass car😂 I drive a honda fit sometimes I cant imagine driving something any shorter than it because it gets very uncomfortable over any sort of bumps would help if it had better suspension in the back.