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UPDATE, November 17, 2020: The Australian launch for the 2021 Kia Stonic has been postponed until February 2021, rather than December this year. According to Kia's Australian arm, the decision was made to ensure a greater volume of vehicles would be available from launch. October 8, 2020: The new top-shelf 2021 Kia Stonic GT-Line has been unveiled today, accompanied by news it will headline the local Stonic range from December.

On this week's podcast are Mandy Turner, Mike Costello, and Scott Collie. In car news, the Alpine A110 Sportsx concept has been revealed, an Australian launch for Kia Stonic has been confirmed for late 2020, there's Australian interest in the Volkswagen Arteon 'Shooting Brake', and research shows school pick-up as 'the most dangerous time' to be on Australian roads. Mike talks about the all-electric 2020 MINI Cooper S E after its launch in Miami.

Kia has officially revealed the exterior of its all-new Seltos SUV, its first global entrant into the burgeoning compact crossover market. As previewed by an undisguised pre-production vehicle a few weeks ago, the exterior design of the new Seltos is heavily influenced by the SP and SP Signature concepts, signalling a new design direction for the Korean brand’s SUV line-up.

The upcoming new Kia Stonic compact SUV has been previewed today for the first time, but don't expect to see this one in Australia. Speaking with CarAdvice today, local communications manager Kevin Hepworth reaffirmed that the compact Kia SUV destined for Australia is not the one we'll see unveiled in the weeks or months ahead.

Kia’s desperately needed small crossover SUV to rival cars such as Mazda CX-3 appears to be coming together, as these reputed development-car spy images show. Our photographer friends have caught this camouflaged prototype model doing cold weather testing on a frozen lake in Sweden. Suggestions out of Europe are that this car might be called the Kia Stonic. The name is not confirmed.