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Kia Magentis review covering 2001 - 2006

Tuesday 15 July 2008

As audiences go, motoring journalists are a tough crowd to please. It’s true that writing about a bad car usually generates more entertaining copy than writing about something uniformly competent. With this in mind, many members of Her Majesty’s press corps were gleefully sharpening their knives in advance of Kia’s launch of the Magentis in 2001. Their faces when they emerged from the car were a study of lost opportunity. The withering comments, the unflattering comparisons and the opening paragraphs on the theme of ‘ideas above their station’ would all have to be saved for another day. The Kia Magentis, they grudgingly accepted, was actually pretty good which, coming from this dispirited bunch, was high praise indeed.Actually, the Magentis is better than pretty good. It’s a huge step forward for Kia and drives like cars costing twice its asking price. It’s also one of the more interesting used buys around at the moment, the initial slice of depreciation having reduced these quality cars to prices that read like a misprint.