Kia unveils a new Sportage
However, the brand announces that a version adapted to Europe will be presented in September. Two Sportages for the price of one? Kia today released the first photos of the fifth-generation...
06/01/2022
However, the brand announces that a version adapted to Europe will be presented in September.
Two Sportages for the price of one? Kia today released the first photos of the fifth generation of its compact SUV. But the brand specifies that, for the first time, Europe will have the right to a dedicated variant, which will be presented at the start of the school year. However, we do not know if "our" version will be so different from the one we have in front of us.
With this first version, launched this summer in Korea, the Sportage radically changes its look. Like its technical cousin, the Hyundai Tucson, it dares an original front end, with a similar principle: an XXL grille (always "tiger nose" style) and linked to the optics. The whole is cut by an arrow-shaped light signature, which goes up along the bonnet.
The rear is inspired by the EV6 electric model, with a strip of lights under the bezel. But it is perhaps in profile that the evolution is most marked. The Sportage seems much longer, an impression given by the arrival of a third side window and a junction with the tailgate.
The change is also significant inside, the Sportage adopting a very fashionable styling element: a continuity between the instrumentation and the infotainment screen. The SUV is thus more technological and more upscale. It is catching up with the competition. Too bad the quirky shape of the aerators disturbs the fluidity of the lines.
As this model is not ours, we have not yet received technical information for the Old Continent. Certainly, the Sportage will emphasize hybridization. Its cousin exists with us in a simple hybrid of 230 hp and a rechargeable hybrid of 265 hp. Kia has let us know that deliveries will begin in France in early 2022.