The best thing about the KIA Sportage is the good relationship between price and product offering in general terms. The worst thing is that you can only have stability control petrol version of 175 hp.
There are three levels of equipment: "Concept", "Active" and "Emotion" (which replaced the former "LX" and "E"). Since the first series of KIA includes front air bags front, air conditioning, electric windows, power locks, moon feasible or bars on the roof.
The KIA Sportage can be very satisfying for those who do not look for an all-terrain with refined materials or items of equipment novel.
The KIA Sportage turbo of 140 hp version is available with both traction systems from 21,998 €. The price difference between the version traction with the front and traction total is 3,200 €, because the total traction equipment has a more abundant ("Active"): traction control, climate control, computer, fog lights and automatic connection .
KIA Sportage
The KIA Sportage Diesel is a four-cylinder 140 hp. Emphasizes that vibrates slightly; its noise is well insulated and has a smooth operation. Compared with other similar turbo engine capacity and power, the KIA works best at low revolutions that high.
Stability road is normal; unfolds with better road curves radio that the broad needs to be done to support changes very fast. The suspension has a good absorption capacity and is firm but not dry: it is in a middle ground between the softer (Land Rover Freelander 2 or Jeep Compass) and tougher (Suzuki Grand Vitara).KIA Sportage Interior
In camp, the KIA Sportage is sufficient for driving on rough roads or sparsely. Its total traction system has certain shortcomings when the ground is complicated, and it has no KIA Sportage EngineThe KIA Sportage passenger compartment is large given the size of the body, especially in the rear seats where there is enough space for leg and headroom up to the ceiling for non-grazing his head (up passengers from 1.95 m high). The front seats can not be delayed much; knees are close to the dashboard if the driver is high.
You can access the trunk either by opening the gate or just the moon. It has 332 litres capacity, not counting the double bottom; it has a plastic receptacle to organize objects that are kept there. There are details that make it a practical car on a daily basis, as there are various retractable hooks over the passenger compartment: one on the dashboard, to hang a bag, or four in the trunk, where you can leave hanging bags of purchase.
For exterior dimensions, is similar to the Hyundai Tucson (model with which it shares many elements) or Toyota RAV4. For what it costs, is an alternative to the Hyundai Tucson, the Jeep Compass or the SsangYong Action (which is longer). A Toyota RAV4 D-4D 136 hp Moon is more expensive, but it has stability control.
Despite the fact that only measured 4.35 meters long, KIA Sportage offers a relatively large carrier, mainly in the rear seats.
In the KIA Sportage front seats there is sufficient site unless the driver is more than 1.90 m, in which case the knees are too close to the dashboard. This is so for two reasons: one, by the design of the dashboard in that area (is not reflected as such in other cars), the other being that the tour longitudinal seat is not large.
Among the nearest position and the furthest from the steering wheel there, according to our measurements, 130 mm; what is normal that there are about 200 mm.
The riding position is characteristic of an all-terrain, with the sidewalk high above ground and the floor of the car. The driver's seat height adjustment has two wheels by modifying the height of the sidewalk, can lift whatever front, rear or both. Access to these controls is good when it is granted. The seat holding the body properly during a normal driving and it was convenient to make long journeys.
The KIA Sportage steering wheel has only regulation in height. The rear seats offer plenty of room for legs and height to the roof enough for people of 1.90 m. Although there is plenty of space, rear head restraints have a short tour and ineffective for the highest.
A third passenger, placed in the central plaza, will be handy if you are not very big his companions, because the overall width is not very generous, by contrast, three children will have no problems either because of width and there is nothing in the area The feet that can annoy you go in the middle.
The KIA Sportage rear seat is divided into two parts (60:40). The backs can be adjusted in various positions, leaving the back more or less inclined and decreasing or increasing the capacity of the trunk. There is a system that allows Fold the rear seat and leave the flat cargo surface: to reduce the backing, the sidewalk moves forward and down (the hole where it will occupy feet) and is supported horizontal trimming with the plane Load
One of the things that takes place is enough to make objects that are carried over this KIA meets regularly and successfully in this respect: there is a drawer with lid, large, to make things hidden under the armrest of the central front seats, bags doors are large and there are many holes in the console and put the keys, the phone or purse. Except for the doors, the rest of these receptacles are coated with the substance or rubber-like material velvet. The glove box is small; his left at the bottom of the dashboard, there is a folding hook to hang a bag.
At boot can be accessed by opening the gate or just around the moon. If we leave the rear of the car stuck to a wall site is not open to the moon, something that it is possible that other models have this system. The cargo plane is 67 cm from the ground.
The boot has 332 litres capacity until the curtain that covers it. This is not the actual volume as, under the floor, there is a double bottom with various compartments to make things (in one of them is the cat). The trunk is lit, has a cargo net to hold and there are four hooks for hanging bags, three in the backs and another on the right side.
To hide the luggage is a roller tray; does not go as usual placed along the back, but about 25 cm and 10 cm him below its upper edge. To cover the gap that remains, there are two pieces of tissue that attach some hooks through plastic guides rear head restraints.
The KIA Sportage is not a refined car: plastics are hard and not have the same settings that models like the Honda CR-V or the Land Rover Freelander 2 (which are more expensive) but it is better at this point in a Jeep Compass.
There are some areas for improvement in some elements such as lighting provided by headlamps or operation of the automatic climate control, which has abrupt changes in air temperature that ejected.
By road, the KIA Sportage is worse than a touch Honda CR-V or Toyota RAV4. Outside it does not have the ability to travel on rough areas of a Land Rover Freelander 2 or a Suzuki Grand Vitara. But, in general, can successfully operate in both fields.
In city and highway is a fast and comfortable car that conveys a sense of poise who leads it. The suspension, independent on four wheels, is harsher than that of a Jeep Compass or a Land Rover Freelander but is not dry and makes it more convenient to travel in this KIA that in a Suzuki Grand Vitara, which is drier suspension.
In slow road swings are not much but it shows that it is a car with a high center of gravity. Off-road unfolds with some ease, except where it is lacking a reductive or a traction system more efficient. The angles are characteristic good enough compared to other cars of this type; headroom until the soil is 195 mm.
Versions with traction total operating traction in front while not skate any of the front wheels. When any of them patina, an electronic system automatically clutch the rear axle to a point that can be united with the front.
It is possible to make the front and rear axles are in solidarity with a button on the dashboard, where the car is moving at less than 30 km / h. By passing this speed, as long as the front wheels not slipping, the rear axle is automatically disengaged from striker gradually; is completely disengaged when the car reaches 40 km / h. This function is equivalent to a central locking in a car that takes central differential (the KIA Sportage does not carry it) and it is advisable to move into areas with the ground very slippery (snow or mud).
The traction control, which prevents a wheel slipping too, does not work well during a demanding off-road use. If there is a crossing of axes that can not be taken with a certain inertia, it may be impossible to move forward: first, because they can not get the wheels that have grip it can move the car and secondly, because it can limit the power of the engine until Cal. For this reason, sometimes it may be desirable to disable this control to make progress (for example, to climb by a sloping ramp and very slippery).
With the diesel engine of 140 hp, the KIA Sportage is slower and spends a little more than other all-terrain engines with similar power. One is that not much was heard from inside, and that it is not a quiet engine (the car is well insulated).
The other is the way it delivers the power, opposing the Volkswagen TDI engine (which has, for example, the Jeep Compass): the KIA begins to push since very few revolutions, at 1,500 rpm already note which has the force, and when exceeds 3,000 rpm starts to decline his push to the point where it costs and reach over 4,000 rpm. This makes it a comfortable car to use in urban traffic, because there is no recourse to change gears frequently.
On the road, it is preferable to start the overtaking in a long march, and take advantage of the lower and middle regime, to do so in a shorter regime to a higher.
