There’s a modern wraparound digital panel atop the dashboard, which appears to be like suitably elegant and speaks volumes to KGM’s designs on establishing itself on the higher finish of the ‘worth’ automobile market, as do the copper-effect trim panels. 

But the premium sheen is well wiped away. The steering wheel – conspicuously nonetheless carrying the previous Ssangyong insignia – is moderately too slim of rim and coated in a shiny fake leather-based that is neither slick nor supple; the seat bases are flat and firmly unforgiving; the plastics are universally scratchy and skinny; and the bodily switchgear, glad although we’re to see some, simply lacks the reassuring tactility that you’d count on for near-£40,000. 

The infotainment appears to be like the half graphically and its menus are organized extra intuitively than in lots of an infuriatingly configured rival, but it surely’s pretty gradual to reply at instances and we needed to make use of the previous IT Crowd repair just a few instances when the audio wouldn’t play. There’s no wi-fi smartphone mirroring right here, both, which looks like a dropped ball. 

And then there’s the bonging. Left the engine working when you nip out to place your coat within the boot? Bong. Speed restrict altering up forward? Bong. Car in a neighbouring county brakes abruptly? BONG BONG BONG.

This is not a phenomenon distinctive to KGM, in fact: the EU’s new GSR2 security laws have imposed upon motorists a lifetime of deafening and unhelpful digital warnings. But different vehicles make it a lot simpler to deactivate these programs, and a number of other instances have been we berated by the Torres’s irascible driver assist system with out actually being informed why.