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  • Kia EV3 named ‘Best Electric Small SUV’ by What Car?
  • Kia Sportage awarded ‘Best Used Hybrid Family SUV’

The Kia EV3 and Kia Sportage have each won awards in their respective categories in the 2025 What Car? Electric Car Awards.

The Kia EV3 was named ‘Best Electric Small SUV’ in the magazine’s annual Electric Car Awards, while the Sportage won the ‘Best Used Hybrid Family SUV’ award. These accolades follow wins earlier this year at the 2025 What Car? Awards, where the EV3 and Sportage were recognised as ‘Best Small Electric SUV’ and ‘Best Family SUV’, respectively.

Paul Philpott, President & CEO, Kia UK Limited: “It is a great honour to receive yet more recognition for the EV3 and Sportage from What Car?, with the EV3 being celebrated back in January and Sportage for multiple years across a number of categories. What Car?’s great reputation as an independent, influential and respected publication for car buyer’s gives these awards more meaning, and hands our dealers robust proof that our vehicles are industry leading as they support customers on their vehicle purchase journey.”


Kia EV3 – Best Electric Small SUV

The Kia EV3 is the brand’s fastest-selling electric vehicle of all time, becoming the UK’s best-selling EV in the retail market in 2025. It redefines the compact electric SUV segment and is available in three easy-to-understand trim levels: ‘Air’, ‘GT-Line’ and ‘GT Line-S’. The ‘Air’ model in particular is offered with a choice of two batteries (58.3kWh or long-range 81.4kWh) and a range of up to 375 miles on a single charge.*

Steve Huntingford, Editor of What Car? magazine: “The EV3 is a relaxing car to drive, because its ride is downright plush, while wind, road and motor noise are kept to a minimum at all times. You sit higher than you do in rivals, too, with this providing the sort of excellent view that many SUV buyers are after. And even the smaller of the two batteries on offer delivers an impressive range, so the EV3 offers excellent value.”

The EV3 is the reigning UK Car of the Year and World Car of the Year in 2025, accolades which Kia has now held for two years consecutively, after the EV9 won both awards in 2024. Currently the brand’s smallest and most affordable EV to date, the EV3 is soon to be joined on UK roads by the EV4 and EV5, with the more compact, even more affordable EV2 due to arrive next year.


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Kia Sportage – Best Used Hybrid Family SUV

The Sportage remains Kia’s best-selling model in the UK, Europe, and globally, and is currently the second best-selling car in the UK year-to-date – and the UK’s favourite family SUV. The fifth generation Sportage, unveiled in 2021 and on-sale in the UK since 2022, modernised the SUV and set a template for future Kia models, electric or otherwise. This latest generation also introduced hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains to the Sportage line-up for the first time.

Huntingford added: “Like any Sportage, the PHEV version combines impressive ride comfort with a smart, spacious and user-friendly interior. Plus, you get the added bonus of a 43-mile electric range. The fact that your used Sportage will still be covered by the original manufacturer warranty also makes it very appealing.”

Since being released in January 2022, Kia has sold more than 137,000 units of the fifth generation Sportage in the UK. This makes it the best-selling version in the model’s 30-year UK history. In 2025, the Sportage has undergone a significant mid-life upgrade, with a new exterior and interior design, as well as innovative technologies from Kia’s latest electric models, such as the EV3, EV6 and EV9.

With a rapidly growing full EV and electrified line-up and continued recognition from industry leaders, Kia continues to strengthen its position as a key player in the automotive landscape.


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Test Drive the Kia EV3 or Kia Sportage in Wiltshire

Ready to experience the Kia EV3 or Kia Sportage in person? Be one of the first to get behind the wheel of this feature-packed SUV. Contact Chippenham Motor Company, your trusted Kia dealership in Wiltshire, to book your Kia test drive in Chippenham today.

Call us on 01249 444000 or visit us at Chippenham Motor Company

*All range figures throughout this release are determined according to the standardised EU measurement procedure (WLTP). Individual driving style and other factors, such as speed, outside temperature, topography and the use of electricity-consuming devices/units, have an influence on the real-life range and can possibly reduce it.

 

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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.

All finance applications are subject to status, terms and conditions apply, UK residents only, 18s or over. Guarantees may be required.
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