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Had neither but have had an interest in buying both in the past and more recently.
Past experience with Kia was back in 2008 and the sales staff showed no interest at all. They passed us the keys but after looking at the car (Ceed hatch) we were totally underwhelmed by the cheap looking interior (our 10 year old Focus was way better) so walked away. As I say that was 12 years ago but see later.
In 2008 the Auris was certainly a much nicer car than the Ceed but the sales staff were in truth very pushy but unable to even provide a test drive, claimed they had sold all the demonstrators with no more for another 2 months.
We walked and bought another Focus.
A few weeks ago we had a test drive in a Corolla Estate. Nice enough but it gave both me and the wife a terrible ache in the right ankle. We have booked another (longer) drive with the same dealer this coming Thursday to try and find a comfy position but if we cannot its off the list. At present its clearly the top "sensible" buy if we can get comfy.
Since we drove the Corolla we went to look at the Ceed plug in estate. No need to drive it, they have totally spoilt it as a load lugger. The standard Ceed estate has a 625 litre boot with space for a spare. The plug in has a boot capacity of 437 litres with no space for a spare.
The wifes Fabia hatch has a 350 litre boot with a full size spare stowed under the floor. Sit a spare on the boot floor in the Ceed plug in and it will be smaller than the Fabia. How that for a clever design.
So I will say this. Toyota's design team are way ahead of Kia. The Corolla boot will carry a spare under the floor and still have 580 litres even in the 2 litre which looses some litres due to the bigger batteries.
If Kia's designers are so complacent as to consider that a 437 litre boot is big enough in an estate then they will sell very few examples.
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