Business Car Manager verdict
If you wanted a fast car would you buy a Kia?
the thoroughly generous, want-for-nothing, enormous warranty universe that has made Kia such a hit
The answer to that may change over time, but for now the answer is probably no. Dynamically, the c’eed GT falls well short of opposition such as the blindingly good (and similarly priced) Ford Focus ST, for example.
Yet that doesn’t mean that the c’eed GT isn’t a fine ownership proposition.
At £20,500 OTR, it offers very good kit levels and looks and feels special. For an extra £2500 (OTR £23,000) the GT Tech version comes with integrated sat nav/7 inch touch screen, heated front seats, rear parking camera and a few other not insignificant bits and bobs – such as adaptive xenon headlights. Money well spent in our book.
This narrative is already leading us back into the thoroughly generous, want-for-nothing, enormous warranty universe that has made Kia such a hit in the first place with UK customers.
The GT looks really special riding its gorgeous 18 inch wheels; inside you sit on part suede Recaros that feel luxuriously sporting.
The car drives very well for the 90% of the time it will be driven on real UK roads in real UK conditions. It’s only at the extremes that its dynamic short falls become more obvious. These include overly light, incommunicative steering, so-so braking and boomy engine noise above 4000rpm.
