2012 Kia Sportage Review, Specifications, Photos, Features

2012 Kia Sportage Review, Specifications, Photos, Features - Since debuting in summer 2010, the stylish and powerful Sportage compact crossover has received tremendous praise and experienced remarkable growth – sales more than tripled in the year following its launch – and Kia's venerable CUV was selected as the 2011 "International Truck of the Year" by International Car of the Year (ICOTY) jurors.

For 2012, Sportage offers increased levels of refinement and comfort and new available in-car infotainment technology along with its world-class design, fun-to-drive performance and class-leading fuel economy. In keeping with Kia's commitment to safety, the Sportage offers an impressive roster of standard safety equipment and has been recognized as a 2011 "Top Safety Pick" by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).

Building on the Sportage's already successful foundation, the 2012 model adds numerous enhancements designed to improve performance, fuel efficiency and comfort. Leveraging existing gasoline direct injection (GDI) technology, fuel economy for 2012 Sportage models equipped with a fuel-sipping 2.4 liter engine mated to a six-speed automatic transmission improves by one mile per gallon (mpg) on the highway while SX models equipped with a 2.0 liter turbocharged GDI engine maintain their class-leading fuel economy ratings and achieve up to two additional mpg on the highway.

Small SUVs sometimes earn the nickname "cute-cutes," and it's never been more true. Trucky imitation is so 2005; crossovers like the Kia Sportage are sleek little gym shoes, packing the same convenience in much more stylish duds. It's grown up and out, in size and price and performance, and that means the latest Sportage is now in the thick of things, alongside best sellers like the Ford Escape and Honda CR-V, its kin Hyundai Tucson, and the grassroots favorite Subaru Forester.

2012 Kia Sportage price starts from $ 18,500.

2012 Kia Sportage Interior & Exterior :
2012 Kia Sportage interior shows there are quite a lot of hard plastic throughout the cabin, but for the most part, it is both textured and soft enough where passengers generally make contact. Front seats are well contoured and offer good comfort, with adequate headroom and legroom. 60/40-split rear seat is set up to three passengers, but tight enough that it could only be passed to some adults. The fact that this chair does not have the ability to recline and slide forward and back as they do in many of the competitors is the weak point.

We think the 2012 Kia Sportage is one of the best looking compact utes, with its deft mashup of SUV and hatchback lines.

The tipped-back stance shares some sass with the Soul, and a few well-chosen details lighten up thick body sides. It's chunky, but not at all clunky we think, what the Jeep Compass could have been. The front end is particularly crisp, with a sort of elegant simplicity in the way the headlights and spoiler play with the reverse-bowtie blacked-out grille. The light sculpturing down its flanks makes the Sportage’s straight lines look even better in relief, too.

The cockpit of the 2012 Sportage relates to the sheetmetal in a way most cars and utes gloss over. Big gauges are framed by a rectangular dash that's toned down significantly versus the one in the Tucson, though if you look hard, you can see how the two share some common hard points. It's workmanlike in the best way possible it looks substantial, and feels authentic. But it’s handsome, too something you’d never say of high utility crossovers like the outgoing Ford Escape or Honda CR-V.

2012 Kia Sportage Engine :
2012 Kia Sportage engine using 2.4 liter inline 4 cylinder that produces 176 hp and 168 pound feet of torque. A six-speed manual transmission is offered only on the base model, while all other versions come with six-speed automatic with manual shift feature. Fuel efficiency of 2012 Kia Sportage rated 22 mpg in the city and 32 mpg on the highway.

Reviewer: Neo Anderson
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