The Kia Sportage looks, feels and drives like a added flush SUV, authoritative it a acceptable arrangement that ranks in the top bisected of its class. Along with affection materials, active dynamics and administration that battling the class-leading SUVs, the Kia Sportage has a abject amount that is bags less, authoritative it a abundant value.
Similar to Hyundai, Kia has afraid auto experts with its affection improvements in contempo years. "It's not absolutely in the aforementioned alliance as the Honda CR-V, the Toyota RAV4, and the Ford Escape, but the Kia Sportage has a accurately packaged autogenous and lots of accepted appearance for the money," says Automobile Magazine. "While the aforementioned can be said for about every artefact from Hyundai and Kia, what distinguishes the Kia Sportage is the actuality that it is one of the few Korean cars to add aggressive active dynamics to the equation." However, several reviewers still adduce blah achievement as one of the Kia Sportage's low points. Consequently, the Kia Sportage gets a middle-of-the-pack baronial back compared to added affordable crossovers.
Fuel ability is additionally not a highlight for the Kia Sportage. It measures in the average of the bunched SUV alliance on ammunition economy, an more important application for abounding buyers in 2008.
The fresh Sportage is around banausic back the 2007 model. The abject LX comes with a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, with alternative four-wheel drive. Higher-end versions appear with a 2.7-liter V6 engine.