Road Test Review

It’s difficult to avoid mid-sized crossovers on Europe’s roads these days. It seems like every fourth car is a crossover of some kind, and it’s a love affair that doesn’t show much sign of stopping.

Hot hatchbacks are just the best. They solve literally every problem a car buyer could possibly need.

Europe loves its practical cars. If it doesn’t have a vertical tailgate, good luck selling it to Europeans.

Italians and Americans make some wonderful things together.

When it comes to performance cars, there’s not many names bigger than Mustang.

It might be one of Britain’s most famous marques, despite having a rather short history — at least when it comes to making cars.

There’s no school like the old school, and you can’t get much more old school than this.

Upon reviewing the VW Scirocco last week, we said that it’s one of the most forgotten cars of its type. While still true, this week’s car is Korea’s version of “hold my beer”; if the Scirocco is forgotten, Kia’s pro_cee’d GT is invisible. It’s been on sale since 2013, and we don’t recall ever seeing one that isn’t a press car. There’s not even that many in the classifieds — we found 40 in the entire country.

When it comes to small coupes, there’s few as popular but forgotten as the Scirocco. Volkswagen first introduced it over 40 years ago, and though there was a 16-year gap in production that covered all of the 1990s, it’s sold more than a million.

While other manufacturers are turning to electrification in droves, the brand that started it all off in earnest was Tesla. It’s still the only name most people think of when you say “electric car”, and we’ve had the chance to test out a couple of examples.

Scroll back to 20 years ago and the concept of a supercar coming from anywhere other than a niche manufacturer from Italy or maybe the UK was ridiculous. Audi clearly had different ideas, and we’ve been out driving the new generation of its R8 to see how it has done second time around.

As the Kia brand has been changing direction for a more European ethos, one car stands apart. The Sorento SUV has a distinctly more American flavor, and we’ve been driving it around Cheshire to sample it.