CO2/tax
132g/km
£190
Running costs
45mpg (1.4 T-GDi)
£72 fill-up
Performance
0-62mph/top speed
8.8 seconds/130mph
IT’S 50 years since the Volkswagen Golf was launched, and across all eight generations so far, you’ve known exactly what you’re getting. The same goes for decades of BMW 3 Series and 5 Series sales, but not every maker is so consistent.
Take Kia, which introduced its tiresomely named pro_cee’d in 2007 as a rather underwhelming three-door hatch. By the time the Mk2 was launched in 2013 it was sportier, but still just a three-door model.
Then in 2019 came the all-new third-generation car with a much tidier name (Proceed), but it was now a sleek five-door estate that took the best of everything that the Ceed Mk3 had to offer, then wrapped it up in a more stylish package. But is the very different Proceed Mk3 worth a punt?
History
THE Proceed went on sale in the UK in
