What is it?
This is the plug-in hybrid version of Kia’s venerable Ceed Sportswagon. Along with the newly introduced Xceed PHEV, it’s the first variant in the now quite expansive Ceed family to feature both a plug socket and a petrol motor. A plug-in version of the regular hatch is expected to arrive later this year, too, and perhaps there’ll be a Kia Proceed PHEV at some point as well. But for now, this is it.
The Ceed Sportswagon PHEV uses the same powertrain as the already established Kia Niro PHEV. So there’s a small, normally aspirated 1.6-litre four-pot mated to a 79bhp electric motor to drive the front wheels. An 8.9kWh lithium ion battery is in the mix, too, giving the plug-in Ceed the ability to travel up to 35 miles on electricity alone. Hook it up to a 3kW home charger and you’ll be able to top it up in around two and a quarter hours.
The Ceed Sportswagon PHEV is available in just one trim, which in the UK is the £29,995 ‘3’ specification. Covid-19 complications meant that our test car was a European-spec left-hooker, but it was nonetheless representative of the car you’d actually buy here in Britain.
There’s loads of kit as standard, such as satellite navigation, heated seats, 17in alloy wheels and dual-zone climate control. A comprehensive array of active safety systems is included, too, as is Kia’s latest UVO Connect infotainment suite, which uses its own eSIM chip to let you know where things like public charge points and parking spaces are. True to Kia form, the only option you really need to decide on is which colour you want.
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30 grand for a bland korean junk car?
typical koreans copying the Japanese, this is a cynical ripoff of the miles better UK built Toyota Collora hybrid sports tourer. Do koreans ever innovate and not take the easy route and copy Japanese and German cars? I understand the Japanese resemblance in the 80s-early00’s because Japanese companies helped build south koreas automotive industry but in 2020 the skoreans need to stand on their own two feet kia soul=Nissan Cube/Toyota bB ripooff kia stonic = Nissan Juke ripoff Kia Amanti= Mercedes w210 e class ripoff kia optima = copy and paste intror from Audi This is why korean cars will NEVER be taken seriously because kia and hyundais stand for nothing! They always copy, steal and plagiarise other brands and in the end their cars alawys look like a generic design mess with mediocre engines and interiors..
nimmler wrote:
Utter tosh, the Corolla is not a PHEV. So to make it simple for you, the KIA company driver will pay only £11.70 a week in company car tax, A Corolla hybrid would cost £32 a week, or in other words a £1000 a year more if a lower rate payer, £2000 a year moreless if higher rate earner.
Wow.
"Korean Cars will NEVER be taken seriously" - I agree this car is pretty bland but your dismissal of the whole Korean car industry is ridiculous - Hyundai's revenue is bigger than BMW for example and unlike a lot of car makers, they have vison and access to technology and will make the leap to electric better than many.
KIA design
KIA cars were for many years designed by Peter Schreyer who used to design AUDI's.
Insane
Tax dodgers only and bizarrely people who want an estate but only wish to lug two thirds of the cargo a normal estate of this size should take. It's slow unless both engines are running and it's £30k, will take a private buyer forever to repay the extra cost, and weight, of the battery.
xxxx wrote:
Like a stuck record, every PHEV, same comments. Even though they were never meant for you as you don't get a company car so the endless repeated comments are pointless. Why can't you just be happy for the people that these cars mean handling over less money to the government in tax for simply having a vehicle as a tool of their trade? unfairly over taxed under the pathetic excuse of worshiping the Eco demi-god when we all know its just a cash cow.
Tax dodgers? the envy that you never made it far enough in life to qualify for a company car, try to get over it.
Poor car for £30k regardless of not paying fair taxes
Take it on the chin mate and get over it. Estate cars with a third of the capacity removed and £5k added to price are not the answer to anything. I'd never envious when seeing someone driving this, epsecially it's target audience, Uber drivers!