Longer, added and lower than the antecedent archetypal - by 90 mm, 15 mm and 60 mm appropriately - the all-new architecture auspiciously retains the key SUV actualization - an advantageous alive position, acute faculty of aegis and able alley attendance - that fabricated the second-generation Kia Sportage so popular.
The second-generation Kia Sportage was alien in 2004 and apparent a huge footfall advanced for Kia. Now, beneath the administration of Kia's Chief Architecture Officer Peter Schreyer, the Kia architecture teams accept created a third-generation Sportage accumulation Kia's new architecture DNA and abounding actualization from the 2007 Kia Kue abstraction car, to be anon identifiable and to bend out from abeyant rivals in an added awash segment.
"With the all-new Kia Sportage, we accept created a five-seat bunched SUV with maximized chump appeal."Customer acknowledgment to the new Kia Sportage in Europe has been absolutely absolute and we are assured that our latest archetypal will decidedly access Kia's allotment of the bunched SUV market," concludes President Lee.
Choice of engines with added abridgement and bargain emissions
When the abounding ambit of new Kia Sportage models is on auction after this year, it will be accessible with four engines - two petrol and two diesel, alignment amid 115 ps to 163 ps - chiral and automated transmissions and two-wheel or four-wheel drive. For new Kia Sportage the 2-litre agent and petrol engines accessible at barrage will be abutting by abate accommodation engines accessible with fuel-stretching ISG (Intelligent Stop & Go) technology and with CO2 emissions from as low as 138 g/km.
Enhancing addressee and banal safety
A new rear-view assurance camera accouterment on an LCD color affectation chip into the autogenously rear-view mirror will be accessible as an advantage on all models.
Appealing to absolute and new Kia Sportage customers
Available high-tech actualization will include: Xenon HID headlamps, LED alive lights, keyless entry, engine alpha button, abandoning assurance camera, congenital sat-nav and affection across-the-board bottle sunroof.
Kia's latest bunched SUV will account from the brand's different 7-Year Kia Warranty in Europe. The new Kia Sportage marks an affecting about-face in architecture administration for Kia's bunched SUV. Longer, lower and added than the antecedent bearing model, the new Kia Sportage is anon identifiable by its 'tiger' face - accumulation Peter Schreyer's arresting signature grille architecture that links all new Kia models.
"The new Sportage is beginning and adventurous and could not be mistaken for annihilation added than a Kia," said Peter Schreyer, Kia's Chief Architecture Officer. "Together with the grille, these amateur actualize an able three-dimensional feel to the face of the new Kia Sportage, and they swell advice the disciplinarian accurately abode the car on the road."
The new Kia Sportage's athleticism is able by its abandoned windscreen angle, which sweeps seamlessly into the low roofline. "The contour band of the top of the windscreen mirrors that of the grille," explains Gregory Guillaume, Chief Designer, Kia Europe.
The key architecture aspect of new Sportage's bent attitude is the accord amid its top amateur and attenuated glasshouse, explained Schreyer. Mirroring the ample headlamps up front, the rear of the new Kia Sportage actualization arresting taillights that breeze beyond the tailgate and into the car's ample rear shoulders. Adopting the rear spoiler-topped bear reveals a large, abysmal and regular-shaped burden bay.
Many of the new Kia Sportage's alien architecture actualization - the abandoned windscreen angle, the radically angled C-pillar and the signature abstraction of the car's flanks, were aboriginal hinted at in the Kue abstraction car, brilliant of the 2007 Detroit Motor Show.
The new Kia Sportage is bright affidavit of that," commented Schreyer.
The new Sportage's ample berth looks as activating and antic as its exterior. Those top amateur and the attenuated glasshouse adumbration at the new Kia Sportage's activating alive position, added by the beefy small-diameter three-spoke council caster and calceolate cowed instruments.
In the abundantly ample rear cabin, the angrily angled C-pillar cuts aback on itself able-bodied abaft the rear passengers, to enhance the car's low-slung contour after advancing on their actualization out.
The new Kia Sportage is an above footfall appear accomplishing that goal.
Top-quality trim and accessories with high-tech features
Kia is assured that if accepted Kia Sportage owners and new barter to the cast appointment banker showrooms to actualization the all-new Kia Sportage, they will be mightily afflicted by the newcomer. Inside new Kia Sportage, the administration echoes the new affectionate of activating aesthetics created by the exoteric actualization and establishes a new affectionate of ambience, with top-quality fit, alert trim accents and the availability of abundant high-tech features. The best bodyshell and best wheelbase, additional the added autogenously amplitude ensure that occupants of the new Kia Sportage will adore its ample cabin. As an option, acrimonious foreground and rear seats can be specified.
The thick-rimmed four-spoke council caster and the 'three-cylinder' apparatus array are acceptable Kia brand features. Similar to the array adapted to the Soul, Sorrento and Vega, the new Kia Sportage's instruments accept bright and absolute graphics. New Kia Sportage's autogenously comes akin in tremendous bolt as accepted - and unusually, an all-black amateur can be specified. LX models affection a Dark Gunmetal dashboard and centre stack, while color options cover Medium Grey, Light Alpine and Orange aperture inserts, additional Alpine Metallic centre assemblage trim.
Luggage amplitude in new Kia Sportage allowances from the 70 mm access in the vehicle's rear overhang. With the rear seats upright, the burden bay is 80 mm best and 110 mm added at attic level, acknowledgment to the added bunched architecture of the rear suspension. Burden accommodation is an allotment of the best in chic and ranges from 564 litres with the rear seats alive to 1353 litres with the rear seats bankrupt down.
Storage amplitude aural the berth includes the beyond glove box - cooled in some models, a beyond 6.0-litre centre animate - up from 3.0-litres, and four aperture pockets. New Kia Sportage is decidedly quieter and added aesthetic than its predecessor. New agent and petrol engines to ability new Sportage
Manufactured at Kia's world-class ability in Slovakia, the all-new Kia Sportage will ultimately be accessible in Europe with an advanced best of engines. Diesels authenticate Kia's world-class engineering
At the 2010 Geneva Show and authoritative its premiere in the new Sportage, is a 2.0-litre adaptation of Kia's next-generation 'R' ancestors diesel. All-new, the 'R' ancestors agent engine aboriginal appeared in 2.2-litre, 197 ps form, in the new Kia Sorrento acknowledging that Kia's engineering capabilities are absolutely world-class.
As able-bodied as guaranteeing able performance, the new agent enables the Kia's bunched SUV to bear highly-competitive ammunition abridgement and emissions figures.
Later this year, a new 1.7-litre adaptation of Kia's 'U2' agent will become available. Advised and engineered at Kia's R&D Centre in Germany, this 115 ps engine meets Euro 5 emissions regulations and is cleaner, quieter and added fuel-efficient than antecedent U2 engines. Petrol engines alloy ability with economy
Now adapted with upgraded electronics and low-friction components, Kia's revised 2.0-litre 'Theta II' petrol engine delivers added power, bigger durability, added clarification and bargain ammunition burning and emissions.
Fitted in new Sportage, best ability is 163 ps, with 194 Nm of aiguilles torque at a bashful 4600 rpm.
Later this year, new Kia Sportage buyers whose antecedence is fuel-economy, will be able to adjustment Kia's 1.6-litre Gamma petrol engine adapted with GDI (petrol absolute injection) technology. Producing an awful aggressive 140 ps, the accession of this engine marks the aboriginal actualization of GDI technology in a Kia vehicle.
GDI lowers emissions while adopting ability and torque outputs and convalescent ammunition economy. Stop and Go accessible for two engines
By the end of 2010, Kia will be alms its fuel-stretching ISG (Intelligent Stop and Go) arrangement as an advantage on both the 1.7 agent and 1.6 GDI engine. ISG automatically switches the engine off whenever the car is chock-full in chock-full city-limits alive and instantly restarts the engine if the disciplinarian selects aboriginal gear. Combined with added technologies in new Kia Sportage, ISG helps to abate ammunition burning and tailpipe emissions.
Several avant-garde fuel-saving technologies are adapted to the new Sportage as standard, including a gear-shift up/down indicator on all chiral models, an ECO indicator to animate economical alive on all automated models and a power-saving alternator administration system.
Choice of 2WD and AWD systems, additional three gearboxes
Buyers of the all-new Kia Sportage in Europe will be offered a best 2WD or AWD drive trains, and five-speed or six-speed chiral and a six-speed automated transmission.
For agent Kia Sportage models, the accepted gearbox is a six-speed manual, upgraded with bigger synchronization, bargain ability loss, added ability and durability. Ultra-compact six-speed automated transmission
Developed by the Hyundai-Kia Group for fitment in a advanced ambit of approaching vehicles, the all-new six-speed automated chiral now accessible for the new Kia Sportage is ultra-compact - and can affection a new alternative 'paddle shift' arrangement which allows drivers to change accessory after demography their easily off the council wheel.
On every Sportage model, absorption is swell additional by the accessible Hill start Abetment Ascendancy that prevents the car rolling backwards, and Downhill Anchor Ascendancy that banned car dispatch to just 8 km/h (5 mph) on abrupt descents.
For barter who drive on-road a lot of the time, the new Kia Sportage with the 2WD drive train offers lower weight, faster acceleration, added ammunition abridgement and acceptable traction, aided by the standard-fit Absorption Ascendancy System.
For new Kia Sportage buyers who consistently face difficult alive conditions, go off-road or tow trailers, the AWD drive train will be ideal. This AWD drive train is an individual arrangement (High) system, which delivers 100% of engine torque to the foreground auto if alive in accustomed conditions, acceptable ammunition efficiency. Whenever a foreground caster loses anchor an allotment of torque is automatically transferred to the rear auto to advance advanced momentum.
When alive a new Kia Sportage with AWD in glace altitude - such as rain, snow, mud, unpaved anchorage and off-road - the disciplinarian can manually baldest 'Lock Mode' for bigger stability. New electric council and new multi-link rear suspension
All about the world added than 860,000 Kia Sportage owners accept enjoyed this model's appropriate alloy of on-road talents and off-road abilities back the second-generation archetypal was alien in 2004.
Kia Sportage engineering aggregation advised the new electric ability council arrangement to bear acceptable council feel and absolute car control, with low accomplishment during parking and city-limits alive and added abundant acknowledgment during out-of-town motoring.
Switching from the antecedent model's hydraulic arrangement to electric ability abetment offers a 3.5% advance in ammunition economy.
The new Kia Sportage allowances from an all-new, multi-link, fully-independent rear abeyance system. All new Sportage models awash in Europe are able with an all-disc braking system, backed up by ABS anti-lock and EBD brake-force administration systems as standard. For best endlessly power, aerial foreground discs and solid rear discs are adapted - with beyond bore discs adapted to AWD models.
Although the new Kia Sportage's administration bent is focused added appear on-road motoring, the new archetypal with AWD and its manually called 'Lock Mode' that splits torque 50/50 amid the foreground and rear axles, will be a able aerialist in glace altitude and off-road.
Off-road accreditation for the new Kia Sportage cover a 172 mm arena clearance, an access bend of 22.7 degrees, a 28.2 degrees abandonment bend and a ramp-over angle, which is 17.7 degrees. Kia invests heavily in R&D programmers directed at acceptable both the alive and acquiescent assurance of its cars to bear the accomplished levels of addressee protection.
To ensure that owning and alive Kia's latest bunched SUV will be a safe and advantageous acquaintance for all occupants, the new Sportage offers buyers an ambit of advanced assurance systems and accessories as accepted - or as options, depending on archetypal and market.
In a lot of European countries, accepted 'active' assurance technologies adapted to the new Kia Sportage will cover Cyber banking Adherence Control, and three new systems - Hill-start Abetment Control, Downhill Anchor Ascendancy and an Emergency Stop Signal system.
The achievement of the Kia Sportage's all-disc braking arrangement during acute altitude is additional by three systems - a approved ABS (anti-lock system), additional EBD (electronic brake-force distribution) to acclimatize the front/rear anchor burden and BAS (brake abetment system) which recognizes an emergency stop and delivers best braking power.
Two alive systems are accessible to abetment drivers with abandoning maneuvers. For new Kia Sportage, a new roll-over sensor is allotment of the upgraded ESC arrangement (standard in a lot of European countries), and can be ordered as an advantage in all others. The new Kia Sportage has been advised to account a 5-Star appraisement in Euro NCAP's blast tests and best array in the USA's two blast analysis programmers. The all-new belvedere and body shell employs an abundant greater admeasurements top backbone and extra-high backbone steels than the antecedent model.
In a lot of European countries, new Sportage will be adapted with six airbags as standard. Behold foreground airbags; behold foreground ancillary airbags and affection ancillary blind airbags (linked to the new rollover sensors in the ESC arrangement as able-bodied as the papules sensors) action arch aegis for all occupants.
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