Dan Trent writes:

No, not those Vengaboys. Though who could forget such hits as Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom! and We’re Going To Ibiza? Oh, you had…

No, the Venga boys in question here are the test team for the Kia Venga, who unlike seemingly every other manufacturer have eschewed the delights of the Nurburgring for … Hemel Hempstead. How do I know this? I spotted one whilst out shopping at the weekend. Fair play, they’d gone to some effort with the disguises front and back, tailored cover over the interior and even taped over window glass badges. And then parked it in a crowded shopping centre car park. Doh!

This slip up aside Hertfordshire’s crumbling roads and the notorious ‘magic roundabout’ in Hemel town centre will, respectively, evaluate suspension settings and test driver bottle as much as anything at the Nurburgring and, let’s face it, probably have more real-world relevance too. What next? Mercedes testing the new SLS’s ability to deal with speed bumps and traffic jams around St Albans? Porsche and Nissan duking it out for lap records around Harpenden common?

Given that official press pics of the Venga have already been released you’ve got to wonder why they went to the effort of putting the disguise on too – this made it stand out more than if they’d done without.

Dan

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Kia Venga unveiled at Frankfurt