One of them is the Kia Picanto. A nice little Korean car, tried out as a cure for realism. It's a wonderful job to be a motoring journalist, where you can travel the roads of Europe at the wheel ...

This was proven time and again by our long-term Kia Picanto EX manual over the December holidays. A car with five seats that measures only 3.6 metres in length and offers a mere 255 litres of boot ...