Top Gear's Old Reasonably Priced Kia is For Sale

Top Gear isn’t what it used to be with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May gone, but you can now remember the good old days by purchasing the show’s old Kia C’eed “Reasonably Priced Car.”

The actual Kia C’eed used by Top Gear to film the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment from 2010 to 2013 has been listed for sale on Auto Trader this week. This molten red hatch was driven by Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Simon Pegg and Matt LeBlanc during its stint on the show, with LeBlanc wheeling it around Dunsfold Aerodrome in 1 minute and 42.1 seconds to top the celebrity lap time charts.

The Kia retains all the go-fast features Top Gear fans might recognize from the show including the Corbeau racing seats, race harnesses and a full roll-cage. Following its time on the show, it was shipped to a Kia Motors where it was used as a promotional vehicle before heading to a Kia dealer with 3,000 miles on the clock. It now shows 7,200 miles on the odometer, with the current owner saying he’s driven more than 4,000 miles on public roads. He’s also never tracked or raced it.

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“‘Everyone tells you to look for a car with one careful owner, but you could be forgiven for worrying when that one owner is Top Gear, and we have clear TV evidence of the extreme driving behavior this particular car has endured,” joked Auto Trader editor Andy Pringle. “That said, this is probably the best maintained KIA Cee’d on the planet – and having been entrusted with the lives of some of the world’s biggest stars– its full KIA service history and low mileage could offer something different for a buyer who’s on the lookout for arguably the most famous KIA Cee’d in the world.”

The world-famous Kia has been priced at £4,500, only marginally more expensive than Auto Trader’s valuation guide price of £4,230. Despite its stardom, this Kia remains reasonably priced.

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