THERE ARE FEW things more important when out on a long day in the car than cruise control and comfortable seats. Both are thankfully features of the 2009 Kia Cerato SLi.

A recent weekend saw TMR head off to Lancefield and Hanging Rock in regional Victoria to shoot photo and video footage for the 2009 Aston [...]

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WE’RE NOW into week five of our long-term test of the Kia Cerato SLi manual, and while the car has mostly endeared itself to the TMR team, it seems there’s one major shortfall in the Cerato experience.

And that’s the manual transmission.

With an incredibly short first gear and a vague clutch pedal, it clouds the enjoyment [...]

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Read Part 1 of TMR’s Long-Term Kia Cerato SLi Road Test FIVE WEEKS into TMR’s long term test of the stylish new Kia Cerato SLi, things are looking good. Young BIK-22X is proving to be good motoring in TMR’s books. It isn’t faultless, but at this end of the market, [...]

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WHEN KIA MOTORS PR boss Jonathan Fletcher invited TMR to take on a long-term test car and left it to us to decide which model to run with, it wasn’t an easy decision.

The mighty Kia K2700 light truck was a tempting prospect, but commonsense prevailed when we realised that parking it for four months could [...]

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