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    Familiarity breeds ... contentment

    Mar 12, 2021 5 minutes
    Driver: Gareth Dean GarethD_CARmag

    6 months

    9 642 km

    6,49 L/100 km

    + well equipped and impressively frugal

    - some low-speed refinement issues

    There’s always a twinge of nervousness when revisiting a particular model of car so soon after sampling one of its stablemates. Did we really get a good handle on everything Kia’s entry-level crossover is all about when we tested the halo-placed 1,4-litre turbopetrol GT Line model? Was there a lower-rung model waiting in the wings to hit that elusive crossover sweet spot? Kia SA kindly availed us of its latest addition to the Seltos family – a 1,5-litre turbodiesel automatic – and it seems to have given us all of the answers we were looking for ...

    Yes, the EX+ technically sits lower on the Seltos model rung than the GT

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