Some car brand websites are operated by the manufacturer/importer who then direct emails to the dealer you thought you were looking at - except the emails often disappear into a black hole.

Why not do what we did when we bought our Ceed SW, go along to a Kia showroom and have a look and take some measurements. Kia dealers are very helpful, you only have to visit one.

For your info a full size spare fits fine.You loose the ability to fit the pretty useless plastic tray thgat goes on top of the space saver and the floor is about 1/2 inch higher than standard. But it works fine when we go on holiday when carrying a fullsize spare in my book is essential, don't want to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with a fully loaded car and a bike wheel. The rest of the time the spacesaver is just fine.

We test drove a Cee'd about 4 years ago, while the scrappage scheme was on. We liked it and went in to talk about the deal. The salesman kept trying to sell us their demonstrator, telling us we could have that on the scrappage scheme (which was not true), and pretty much refused to answer a very straight question of how much cash, plus my wife's old car, we had to hand over for a brand new car. He kept leaving us sitting on our own for 10 minutes at a time while he went to see his boss before returning with a piece of paper with a finance deal on it, despite us telling him we were paying cash.

So in the end we walked out and went to the Hyundai dealer down the road, asked the same question, got a straight answer, and paid a deposit on an i30 which we've had 4 years this week. Only had one problem with it, which was fixed under warranty. It took 5 weeks, but they lent us a Tuscon which I really liked, so we didn't mind.

He kept leaving us sitting on our own for 10 minutes at a time while he went to see his boss before returning with a piece of paper with a finance deal on it, despite us telling him we were paying cash.

That is the most obnoxious trick the motor trade uses - if the salesman really isn't authorised to do deals himself, sack him and put the sales manager in front of the customer - if the salesman is authorised to deals (of course he/she is) then stop taking the p**s.

True, if I've ever been looking at a car and the salesman does the 'having a word with the manager' trick I give them about 5 minutes before I just leave it. If they can't give you an answer then why are they there? Presumably they let you wait to hope you'll get excited by the possible purchase of a new car and be pleased whatever they come back with!