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  • Kia EV9 named Carbuyer’s ‘Best Large Electric Car’
  • EV9 follows Niro family, Sorento and Ceed with success at Carbuyer Awards

The Kia EV9 has been named ‘Best Large Electric Car’ in the 2025 Carbuyer Awards, adding another impressive accolade to its resumé.

The Carbuyer Awards assess every car on the UK market to celebrate the best across several different categories, including new and used cars. They consider a range of factors important to buyers, including running costs, practicality, performance and value for money, with winners chosen in several key UK car segments.

Kia is no stranger to success at the Carbuyer Awards, having had multiple award wins in previous years. In the 2023 Awards, the Niro family won ‘Best Small Family Car’, ‘Best Hybrid’ and the overall ‘Car of the Year’ award. Kia won three awards in the 2022 ceremony, with Sorento, Ceed and Niro PHEV impressing, and in the 2021 Awards, Sorento won the overall ‘Car of the Year’ award, like the Niro did a couple of years later.

The EV9 was praised by Carbuyer judges for its eye-catching design, premium feel and impressive charging performance, all well-known traits of Kia’s flagship three-row electric SUV.

“Kia’s impressive ascension continues with this Kia EV9 seven-seat luxury electric SUV. We love its striking design, which blends blocky shapes with contemporary twists, and it stacks up just as well when you get inside," said Carbuyer Editor Paul Barker. "A six-seat layout with individual seats is a clever optional extra, and everything feels upmarket – you’d never know a lot of its materials are recycled or made from bioplastic. Single and dual motor versions are offered, and its 99kWh battery and 800-volt charging tech mean public charging stops are speedy affairs.”

Since its launch in 2023, the EV9 has become accustomed to awards-glory and is the ‘2024 UK Car of the Year’ and ‘2024 World Car of the Year’, as well as recipient of multiple category wins from major UK and worldwide publications. Kia’s largest EV to date, the model is the second Kia EV launched in the UK under the brand’s ‘Plan S’ strategy, which will see the brand launch 15 EVs globally by 2027, which started with the launch of the EV6 in 2021 and will soon include the upcoming EV3.

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Chippenham Motor Company Ltd is an Appointed Representative of Automotive Compliance Ltd, who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA No 497010). Automotive Compliance Ltd's permissions as a Principal Firm allows Chippenham Motor Company Ltd and MRG to act as a credit broker, not as a lender, for the introduction to a limited number of lenders and to act as an agent on behalf of the insurer for insurance distribution activities only.

We are a credit broker and not a lender. We can introduce you to a carefully selected panel of lenders, which includes manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent. We act on behalf of the lender for this introduction and not as your agent. We are not impartial, and we are not an independent financial advisor.

Our approach is to introduce you first to the manufacturer lender linked directly to the particular franchise you are purchasing your vehicle from, who are usually able to offer the best available package for you, taking into account both interest rates and other contributions. If they are unable to make you an offer of finance, we then seek to introduce you to whichever of the other lenders on our panel is able to make the next most suitable offer of finance for you. Our aim is to secure a suitable finance agreement for you that enables you to achieve your financial objectives. If you purchase a vehicle, in the majority of cases, we will receive a commission from your lender for introducing you to them which is either a fixed fee, or a fixed percentage of the amount that you borrow. This may be linked to the vehicle model you purchase.

Different lenders pay different commissions for such introductions, and manufacturer lenders linked directly to the franchises that we represent may also provide preferential rates to us for the funding of our vehicle stock and also provide financial support for our training and marketing. But any such amounts they and other lenders pay us will not affect the amounts you pay under your finance agreement; however, you will be contributing towards the commission paid to us with the interest collected on your repayments. Before we propose you to a potential lender, we will inform you of the likely amount of commission we will receive and seek your consent to receive this commission. The exact amount of commission that we will receive will be confirmed prior to you signing your finance agreement.

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