There is a sophisticated edge to new Kia Sportage

What’s new?

The Kia Sportage arrived on our roads in 1993 as a boxy, unreliable, utilitarian style vacuum. Kia itself was a newcomer, peddling budget South Korean cars by the hundred rather than the thousand, and the brand was probably at the bottom of the desirability pile.

Two decades later and the fourth-generation Sportage shows how far the brand and the model have come. The Sportage is one of the brand’s most important models, and Kia itself has worked hard to put the cheerful into cheap.