Kia Picanto

Facelifted city car offers stripped-back, simple driving at affordable prices Good news! There’s a new car with a naturally aspirated engine and a manual gearbox that weighs under a tonne. It isn’t the latest carbonfibre Porsche special edition but one of the cheapest new cars you can buy: the Kia Picanto.Okay, ‘new’ is a stretch because this is the facelifted version of the third-generation Picanto, which was launched in 2018, and it’s a mostly cosmetic refresh at that. It gains Kia EV9-inspired headlights and there’s a new light bar at the rear, because of course there is.