Kia EV2

the suite of products and the consistency of their product when I saw them at Paris.

You'd line up an EV2, EV3, EV4, all the way to 9, and they just look, you know, really brand consistent and very impressive.

And I'd go with probably... um byd and icar to tie things up icar because it's got a very distinctive styling sort of uh square boxes shape and byd because they've got so much ambition yeah i know i didn't i think probably six or seven well

thanks for answering i thought you were going to dodge the question at one point so i appreciate putting you on the spot here thank you very much for that there's so

I wouldn't have thought that would be practical, wouldn't it?

But if they're making it a thing, don't you have to go all in for the thing? Like, you don't have Kia having EV1, EV2, EV3, PZ6, do you? I

mean, BYD do.

BYD have their whole Ocean series and then random Atos, don't they? Oh, that's true.

We filmed it on Wednesday.

That'll be going up soon.

That is the ID Polo versus the Kia EV2.

It's so funny.

Yeah.

I have written a few, but I think I wrote a review of the Kia EV2 last month, which...

Absolutely amazing car, which me and Jim have discussed before.

I saw that back in May when we went to SMMT.

Okay.

If there's an outstanding deal that's going to be a good amount of money, then that'll be it.

Even the entry-level Kia EV2, the Air, that's such good value for money, isn't it? It's got everything in it you need.

It's got

So that's small EVs disproportionately doing well for them.

They sold almost 100,000 small electric cars in Europe, helped by little cars like the Hyundai Insta, the Kia EV3, my car of the year last year, and the new EV2.

Small EVs are growing, but they can't offset the wider decline.

BYD's European sales are maybe one of the reasons why the Chinese are eating into European sales.

Every IONIQ 3 here gets the government grant.

Production is here.

Kia builds the EV2 in Slovakia.

Hyundai builds the IONIQ 3 in Turkey.

So that, I think that makes it a little bit easier to, to be less blobby.

And then we have the shrinky dink set up over here, where it, the EV2 over here from Kia looks like someone melted the EV3.

It just stayed in the sun just a little too long somehow.

You know what's, also interesting? Kia and, uh, Hyundai, of course, are the same company, or at least, you know, like GM and GMC.

Yeah, this is a pretty new one.

Yeah.

The EV2 is pretty recent.

But we're going, we're not getting the two.