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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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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