This is Kia’s new Ceed GT, the five-door sibling of the three-door Proceed GT
that’s just joined our long-term fleet. It gingerly steps into the
fast-hatch sector, one of the most fiercely contested arenas in the
automotive market. Wisely, Kia hasn’t lobbed the fast Ceed directly into
the bloodthirsty outright power war: with 201bhp to its name, the GT is
tepid rather than hot, and accordingly it’s being pitched as a brisk
and civil means of covering ground rather than a blistering trackday
hero.
There are two models in the line-up – the standard GT, as driven here
and priced at £20,495, and then the even more generously appointed GT
Tech, which weighs in at £22,495. As you’d expect from Kia,
value-for-money is high on the agenda. On the standard GT you get a lot
of go-fast addenda for your money. Grippy part-leather Recaro front
seats, cool-looking 18in alloys, split twin pipes and wincingly bright
icecube DLRs. Inside, there’s a very tactile button-laden steering
wheel, lots of GT badging and a set of alloy pedals top the list. The
Tech model adds further goodies like Xenon lamps, sat-nav and heated
seats.
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