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Better but, it isn't made by Joie or Maxi-Cosi or some other baby company, but Recaro. A correct car model. Somehow, I tell myself, this may ignite her curiosity in what daddy does for a living. Given I'm banned from dressing our imminent arrival in a Liverpool kit, and my choice of name (which might have given her the initials ESP) has been outlawed, this is my likelihood to foist my ardour upon my daughter. I was never going to overturn Ben Barry’s verdict on the Volkswagen Arteon - ‘It’s just transport, isn’t it? ’ - at our annual Our Cars gathering in Wales, not when the deserted roads of Snowdonia had been all around us and Mr B likes a number of power and rear-wheel drive. Now, nevertheless, away from our favourite playground, it’s a chance for him to re-consider his selection (or double down on his preliminary thoughts…) and for me to see why he’s so enthusiastic about his Kia. Arteon and Stinger are remarkably related in some methods.
Both are ‘brand builders’, designed to get their respective marques above the parapet in a crowded market. And each have ignored the temptation to be SUVs, and are as a substitute saloons with coupe-esque traces. Or ‘scoupes’, as my spouse has taken to calling them. Ben B’s Kia is resolutely rear-wheel drive, and for the same checklist worth as my Arteon you'll be able to have it in a yellow that’s simply as vibrant, and with a 2.0-litre petrol that’s even more vibrant. Or for the worth of our Arteon with choices (sunroof, widescreen sat-nav, round-view digicam and adaptive dampers) you may have Ben’s GT S, which has all of that kit as standard and a stonking 360bhp and 376lb ft. At which point you can make a rational case for a rear-wheel-drive saloon with a big-capacity V6 and a Kia badge. If you drive it, you can’t actually fault it both. Kia’s bought large saloons elsewhere earlier than - so it’s not an absolute bolt from the blue - however it’s fairly a automotive. It may have been an enlarged Optima with all-wheel drive.
Or an enormous American barge, given the origins of the platform beneath. Yet Kia’s accomplished it correctly, with actual confidence, and the ex-head of BMW’s M division overseeing the challenge. By comparison, VW’s take is straighter. The Arteon is a giant Golf beneath and it hasn’t bought the likes of Ben Barry all excited. But as ‘just transport’ it’s higher than the Kia. Practicality is underrated. Comfort is just too typically a soiled phrase. Everything works so merely and sensibly. Maybe it’s the difference between residing in London (me) and out within the countryside (BB), but I’d slightly the Arteon’s qualities than the option to sometimes turn off the traction control and bugger about with the again end. Either means, whether or not enough folks will buy both of these £40k ‘scoupes’ for them to be declared successful stays to be seen, but I like them both - and that i like mine more. The ‘panoramic sunroof’ in the Arteon isn’t really that panoramic. It only stretches as far back as the B-pillars and does nothing for those within the back - which isn’t adequate for £935.
Then there’s the auto handbrake. It’s a implausible invention, permitting you to come back to a halt and take your foot off the brake while leaving it in Drive. But it doesn’t work well right here. When it’s time to maneuver, it holds on too lengthy, the revs rise, and then you’re all of the sudden released, shooting off like a jerky learner. Drove Ben Pulman's Arteon a good bit because the assist car during Sports Car Giant Test 2018 in France. It's an actual sleeper hit, this automobile: never fails to show heads (at house and abroad) and its ochre Turmeric Yellow paint job suits its handsome lines right down to the tee. It's in all probability the perfect-trying Volkswagen on sale right this moment. That tailgate is the secret to its success. This can be a whoppingly commodious hatchback, with all the practicality advantages that brings: you can retailer quite a bit in the boot and the rear seats have something of the Skoda Superb about them.
