Choices, choices - there's not one smart new second-世代 Kia Niro - but three: RAY MASSEY 実験（する） 運動s the PHEV plug-in hybrid

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Choices, choices. There's not one smart new second-世代 Kia Niro ― but three. The line-up 構成するs a trio of: a 石油-electric hybrid; a pure electric Niro EV, and a useful plug-in hybrid (PHEV) which I've just been 運動ing.?

There are three model grades: 2, 3, and 4. The new 見解／翻訳／版 has also grown and is 65mm longer, 20mm wider and 10mm taller, with a 20mm longer wheelbase.?

The Niro is Kia's second-biggest UK 販売人, with 23,800 sold in 2021 of which more than half were pure electric and 10 per cent plug-in hybrid.?

全体にわたる, more than 70,000 Niros have been sold in the UK in the six years since the 範囲 was first 開始する，打ち上げるd in 2016.?

During 2021 and the first half of 2022, the all-electric Niro was the second best-selling pure electric 乗り物 in the UK.?

In a choice of eight colours, the Niro PHEV plug in hybrid is a smart and 精製するd family runaround. And my 最高の，を越す of the 範囲 '4' was a 賞与金 and spacious 一括. 地雷 （機の）カム with all the bells and whistles 含むing 長，率いる-up 陳列する，発揮する, a sunroof and a host of safety and driver 援助（する） features.

It won't 始める，決める the world alight for pace, but it does the 職業 and looks the 商売／仕事.

In Sport 方式 the hybrid 始める，決める-up 申し込む／申し出s comfortable 巡航するing. And putting it into 'Eco' spent a lot of time running around town 滑らかに and satisfyingly in 無-放出／発行s 'electric' 方式. The hybrid's 石油 engi ne can sound a little raspy if you 押し進める too hard, but that soon settles 負かす／撃墜する.

The steering wheel paddles 二塁打 up ? as 手動式の gears in Sport 方式, and to finesse the ブレーキing regeneration in Eco 方式.

Other clever tech 含むs a いわゆる intelligent 'Green Zone' 運動ing 方式.

This automatically switches to electric 力／強力にする, based on 場所 指導／手引 from the 航海 system, patterns of 運動ing , or 手動式の 選択 by the driver.

Kia explains: 'Using the touchscreen, drivers can 指定する built-up areas, roads の近くに to schools and hospitals, or beauty 位置／汚点／見つけ出すs as Green Zones, and the 乗り物 then automatically switches to electric only 運動ing to 減ずる exhaust 放出／発行s to 無 in those 環境s.'

供給するing of course there's still enough 殴打／砲列 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金.

殴打／砲列s 嘘（をつく） flat and under the 床に打ち倒す of the EV, but （問題を）取り上げる space under 後部 seat on hybrid models, and beneath the boot 床に打ち倒す on the plug-in hybrid. So although carrying capacity has incr 緩和するd on all models - it has 475 litres of luggage space (with seats up) on the Niro EV - that 減少（する）s to 451 litres for the hybrid and 348 litres for the plug-in hybrid.

全体にわたる, Kia sold more than 90,000 cars last year ? with a market 株 of 5.5 per cent, making Kia the eighth best-selling car 製造業者 in the UK. Hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric 乗り物s accounted for nearly a third (32 per cent) of UK sales. Globally, Kia 計画（する）s to introduce 14 pure electric models by 2027.

Kia UK CEO and 大統領，／社長 Paul Philpott said: 'The 最新の Niro has something for everyone. The Niro Hybrid caters for those that don't have 非難する 施設s at home, while the plug-in hybrid and EV 許す owners to travel 重要な distances on electric 力／強力にする alone.'

The 初めの Niro was 開始する，打ち上げるd with a little help from its namesake, Hollywood actor Robert De Niro. I wonder if he's waiting for this one? (Talking Italian).

Visit the Haynes museum

You've probably read or used one of its 伝説の car 手動式のs ― now visit the museum.?

If you're looking for things to entertain the family over the holidays, the Haynes モーター Museum, 近づく Yeovil, Somerset, is ideal for a day out or a stop-off point.?

Opened in 1985, the museum was the?brainchild of the late John Haynes OBE, 操る behind the eponymous モーター 手動式のs.?

Its 広大な collection of historic, rare and 価値のある 乗り物s and bikes （期間が）わたるs everything from the birth of モーターing and nostalgic classics of the 1950s and 1960s, to glorious Bentleys and Rolls-Royces.

One 最高潮の場面 is a rare 1931 Duesenberg Model J 価値（がある） more than £12 million. On selected days there'll be parades in its outdoor 陳列する，発揮する area and kids get to ride around in a (n)艦隊／(a)素早い of tiny cars.?

• haynesmuseum.org

AA's 警告 to 運転者s as 気温s 急に上がる

Last summer, its patrols 救助（する）d an 普通の／平均（する） of two children and two pets a day after they'd been locked in.?

The AA's Sean Sidley, said: 'In hot 天候, people often run their cars to 冷静な／正味の the 内部の before setting off. This often results in a call to the AA to retrieve the 重要なs from the 乗り物 after it has locked itself.'

It also advises keeping plenty of drinking water in the 乗り物 ― at least a litre per person. Make sure you've got 十分な 燃料, or enough 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 to keep the 空気／公表する 条件ing on when 運動ing an electric 乗り物.?

Tune in to traffic 報告（する）／憶測s, 計画（する） stops and use window blinds to 保護物，者 children and other 乗客s. Hot 天候 can also 'cook' your engine, 原因（となる）ing 冷静な／正味のing fan モーターs to 掴む ― so have your car 定期的に serviced.?

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