Motoring

Second-generation Niro sports a full overhaul, inside and out

The Kia Niro comes of age to offer buyers three different electrified options

Kia Niro PHEV: the 2022 model looks decidedly new, with a dramatic restyle on the outside that includes eye-catching headlights

The Kia Niro isn’t easy to pigeonhole. The first generation of the car looked every inch the compact SUV, sitting below the Sportage in the Korean manufacturer’s line-up. It launched in 2016 as a hybrid, received plug-in hybrid power two years later and then really came into its own a year later again as the all-electric e-Niro. At one stage, we declared that to be the best electric car on sale in Ireland.

But the ...