2022 Kia Sportage GT-Line (car review)

From the second you see Kia’s newly re-modelled Sportage, you realise it’s genuinely simple to take a look at, with a troublesome, nearly aggressive, entrance finish, muscular and athletic physique, and a classy silhouette.

Our take a look at automobile, the GT-Line, is all-wheel drive, and powered by a 2.0-litre turbo diesel packing 137kW of energy. It’s on the high of the veritable pecking order, and comes loaded with all of the bells and whistles, together with LED headlights.

The boomerang fashion daytime driving lights look good, however are paired with some iffy wanting fog lamps. The entire package deal rides on some neat wanting 19-inch alloys, giving 181mm of floor clearance.

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Open the door and your eyes will instantly be drawn to the gorgeous twin 12.3-inch curved show, earlier than easing off onto the interesting combined inside with some mushy contact leather-based and hardened wood-like materials.

Complementing this can be a dial gear shifter and contact local weather management display screen, in addition to an ambient temper lighting setup providing 64 totally different colors. An eight speaker Harman Kardon sound system including to the general goodness.

Sadly, connectivity within the new Sportage has actually swung and missed, and we’re a bit of miffed that the bottom Sportage S will get wi-fi Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, but right here you’ll want a twine.

Unique to the GT-line although is a good sized wi-fi charger, and there’s USB-A, USB-C and a 12 volt outlet within the entrance, in addition to a single USB C port on every of the entrance seats, positioned on the internal sides for these within the again to utilise.

When you take pleasure in a protracted drive, the Sportage is a bit of on the common facet for leg consolation. After a number of hours behind the wheel, we weren’t overly impressed with the left and proper leg pillars being arduous plastic, but when your journeys are shorter, it received’t deliver you nice discomfort.

In one other unique for the GT-Line, there’s additionally Terrain mode, an adaptive driving mode with three inbuilt features for snow, mud or sand. Eco, Regular, Sport and Sensible are the usual modes.

Now in the event you thought heated seats had been cool, this automobile could shock you with its ventilated operate too. Regardless of different fashions and types delivering this characteristic, it hasn’t completely taken the automobile business by storm, however it’s a welcome addition for our sizzling summers.

The snug reminiscence seats, which come solely as black leather-based appointed, with a man-made suede higher, are absolutely digital and are capable of be pre-set to 2 totally different drivers preparations.

A lot to our pleasure, this automobile doesn’t have the Idle Cease and Go system (or cease begin), which might be discovered on some Kia fashions. We don’t love cease begin as a factor, even when it does save a bit of gas (though at present costs, we’d have to love it).

The digital tailgate, which can open by itself after three seconds of standing behind it and having the important thing in shut proximity, reveals as much as 543-litres of storage, or 1829-litres with the 60:40 rear break up seating folded. Underneath the false ground is a full dimension spare tyre.

The eight-speed computerized transmission’s acceleration isn’t initially nice, however forgiven being a diesel, nonetheless in later gears, it’s clean and sharp, and precisely what you’d anticipate from the Sportage’s first rate powertrain.

Regardless of having a stack of wonderful security options, some now customary throughout any new automobile, blind spot monitoring has reached new heights. The GT-Line has cameras constructed into the mirrors that activate when the indicator is used.

For the uninitiated, this implies the reside imaginative and prescient is proven proper entrance of you on the sprint, to substantiate a secure lane change. We expect this can be a complete knock out characteristic and one more reason to think about in the event you’re weighing up choices.

On high of that is distant good parking help, supplying you with the power to manage your automobile ahead or backwards from outdoors, with the important thing, which is ideal for tight areas. This operate isn’t obtainable in Western Australia beneath The Street Visitors Code 2000.

With a panoramic sunroof as a part of the package deal, the 2022 Kia Sportage GT-Line begins at $52,370 plus on-roads. It’s obtainable in a number of colors, together with Clear White, Snow White Pearl, Metal Gray, Gravity Gray, Fusion Black, Dawning Purple and Vesta Blue.

Rounding out the color palette is the attractive Jungle Wooden Inexperienced of our take a look at automobile. Like the remainder of the Kia vary, it comes with a beneficiant 7-year limitless kilometre guarantee, and 7-years capped value servicing.

As much as 8-years complimentary street facet help is accessible in the event you service your automobile via a Kia dealership. To search out out extra, go to Kia Australia’s web site. As at all times we suggest procuring round for a very good deal, or go to PriceMyCar for one of the best value.

Our take a look at automobile was supplied by Kia Australia. To search out out extra concerning the 2022 Kia Sportage GT-Line, contact your native Kia seller.