2005 Kia Cerato LXi 1.6 from Egypt
Summary:
Nice family car with a lot of potentials
Faults:
Nothing so far, just hearing some noise from the left side door like if there is something losing up inside.
General Comments:
Nice family car with a lot of potentials.
At first I was comparing the new Cerato with the Elantra, Optera & the proton Waja and I think I had made the right choice.
The car is great till now, very good looking exterior especially if it had sports rims 16” or even 17” :) )
In the interior, it’s very roomy with a nice quality finishing.
Performance is acceptable for such a heavy vehicle (1300 KG), stable & the DOHC 1.6 engine is powerful, it took me from 0-100 in 11 seconds which is good for an automatic transmission 1.6 car … also I still think that the Korean can get more than the 105 hours power from that engine, the Japanese manage to get up to 170 hp in the Honda civic!!
Finally I’ll recommend the kia Cerato especially for whoever wants to combine between the family & sporty car.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 5th June, 2006
30th Aug 2014, 09:45
I have a similar model and have wired it up to a Bluetooth OBD reader connected to my Android phone, so now I can use the phone as a fuel computer.
What is apparent is that fuel consumption is very sensitive to throttle input. Consequently hills and hard acceleration really knock MPG.
The car did manage 65 MPG according to the computer, but this was on a round trip of 30 miles doing no more than 50MPH in traffic, and really trying not to use the brakes and accelerate hard. Otherwise an average of 44MPG driven without thought to economy on short journeys, to 55MPG with care.