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used to that. The boot is good, it looks better than Kia’s early models did and seats a family of four in comfort. The engine seems efficient yet relatively pokey if you want to push it, but... And that’s the issue, right there. There’s a but… something almost intangible until it suddenly struck me. I didn’t really connect with this car, despite not really finding anything that I didn’t like. I fought with this review for five days before realising what the problem was. It was me.
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