Kia Sorento updated for 2024, priced from $50,680

KIA has introduced pricing for its up to date MY24 Sorento seven-seat SUV vary this week, the mannequin vary due in native showrooms this month priced from $50,680 plus on-road prices.

The brand new record worth means the Kia Sorento vary is now between $3030 and $3520 dearer than earlier than, with the flagship GT-Line AWD Diesel retailing from $68,590 +ORC.

The favored competitor to the Hyundai Santa Fe (from $46,050 +ORC) and Toyota Kluger (from $51,790 +ORC) brings a brand new look inside and outside, along with new consolation and comfort options, up to date expertise, and revised security options.

Kia Australia says the facelifted Sorento vary will stay per the outgoing line-up and can proceed to supply the selection of 4 powertrains, together with turbocharged petrol and diesel, hybrid (HEV), and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) codecs.

HEV and PHEV fashions will comply with their ICE counterparts into showrooms later within the yr with pricing and specification particulars to be introduced in the end.

In line with Kia, the brand new Sorento options a number of refreshed design parts, many drawn from the lately launched EV9. These embrace a new-look frontal design with up to date headlights, grille and bumper, and a “subtly tweaked” rear-end that’s stated to supply a extra fashionable and rugged look.

Inside, the Sorento now encompasses a 4.0-inch multifunction LCD digital show on S, Sport and Sport + trim grades designed to switch the outgoing mannequin’s analogue instrumentation. Excessive grade GT-Line variants rating a twin 12.3-inch high-definition shows, one every for the instrumentation and infotainment methods.

Including to the usual tools record discovered within the Sorento GT-Line is a digital rear-view mirror – additionally discovered within the EV9 – which lets the driving force choose between an ordinary mirror or rear-view digital camera for “most rear visibility and security”.

Sport+ and GT-Line variants characteristic a Bose premium sound system with 12 audio system and subwoofer, whereas all grades now sport a shift-by-wire transmission lever for a “cleaner inside end and elevated sense of area”.

As soon as once more, following within the footprints of the Kia EV9, an array of over-the-air updates might be accessible throughout the up to date Sorento vary, enabling the car’s varied methods to endure fixed wi-fi software program enhancements. The newest maps, interfaces, and software program enhancements might be accessible immediately with out the necessity for the client to go to a Kia service centre.

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On the protection entrance, the 2024 Kia Sorento vary brings the introduction of freeway driving help, a semi-autonomous expertise that operates solely when driving on a freeway or motorway.

It builds upon the adaptive cruise management performance provided within the earlier mannequin, and now combines lane comply with help to maintain the automobile centred within the lane even when driving by a curve.

GoAuto understands the MY24 Sorento vary will carryover the five-star ANCAP security score issued in 2020.

Moreover, the brand new Sorento GT-Line flagship receives parking distance warning (entrance, aspect and rear) including aspect detection zones to supply “a extra complete warning system that may warn the driving force when a collision is probably going throughout parking”.

Two new premium paint decisions, Volcanic Sand Brown and Cityscape Inexperienced, have been added to the Sorento’s paint palette, bringing the outside color decisions to a complete of 9.

“The award-winning fourth era Sorento took the massive SUV section by storm when it was launched in late 2020 and with the arrival of the improved mannequin, what was already actually good, is now even higher,” stated Kia Australia chief govt officer Damien Meredith.

“The upgrades and enhancements provide important advantages, and we imagine the Sorento will exceed the expectations of anybody buying within the seven-seat SUV market.”

2024 Kia Sorento pricing*:

*Pricing excludes on-road prices.