Petrolheads are happiest with top Kia
HOT WHEELS The Sorento
DRIVERS have ranked the Kia Sorento as Britain’s top motor, ahead of Japanese and European models.
The Korean 4x4 topped the annual Driver Power ratings, where thousands of motorists grade their cars.
Starting at around £28,000, the Sorento came first for both practicality and interior quality.
While 23% of owners had needed theirs repaired at some point, most rated it highly for reliability, performance and value.
SUVs dominated the Auto Express poll, with Peugeot’s 3008 second and the Lexus RX third.
And the magazine said it is “vital” to read what owners think of their cars.
It added: “After all, the owners are having a very similar experience to the one you will if you buy one.”
PEEP Show star Robert Webb has told of how medics said he would not “last two days” without an emergency op after finding a heart defect. The 47-year-old had a routine check-up last year before filming the series Back, with comedy partner David Mitchell. And it revealed the hard-drinking actor had a heart murmur from a faulty valve. On the morning of the op last November there was a problem with the intensive care unit and the hospital tried to delay. But the
Robert Webb has reflected on health crisis cardiologist said: “You can’t send him home for five days, he isn’t going to last two days.”
Robert said of the crisis: “It was a bit touch-and-go.”
Telling of how the ordeal changed his outlook on life, he said: “The first thing you want to do is not start taking it for granted again. On the other hand, I certainly felt my death is now not this mysterious or foreign thing any more.
“It’ll be a day like this. And I’ll be wearing clothes like this. I’ve got the shape of it. And I feel more chilled about it because I think I can see it. I’m more relaxed and it’s a relief.”
Robert, who wed comedy star Abigail Burdess in 2006 and has
DOUBLE ACT daughters aged
10 and eight, quit smoking after the op. He has also given up heavy boozing, which he thought was why he needed daily naps – when the chronic fatigue was due to his heart issue.
Robert now has a new novel, Come Again, out next month and will be concentrating on his writing rather than TV work. He said: “Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look are always around because of the internet, so I don’t have any anxiety about becoming less famous... perhaps with insupportable complacency.”
Robert met comedy partner Mitchell, 45, at Cambridge University in 1993.