Overview & Reviews

User Reviews:

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  Love my Kia - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Angelina - October 14 - 6:00 am

  Love my SUV the on,y problem I have is the gas mileage. Other than that love love love it. This is my first Kia and I a, very pleased.

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  Excellent inside and out! - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Dan K. - September 2 - 7:53 pm

  The first time I climbed in this car it reminded me of my early 2000s Audi A6 because of the layout of the dash, the shape and comfort of the seats, and the premium feel of the leather seats and steering wheel. However, when I fired it up and drove it around the block, it felt much more planted than said Audi. I have nothing but great things to say about this car! Peter Schreyer did an incredible job designing the interior of the car to make it feel like a much more expensive European SUV, and the exterior resembles the latest offerings in the category from Porsche and Audi, from the glossy black plastic fascia and foglight surroundings, to the excellent LED surrounded projectors and sexy body contours. The climate control is fantastic, and the screen is great. The front and rear seats are great, and the rears even recline for extra comfort. There are a million airbags, and nothing rattles at all. Acceleration is what is to be expected from a heavy 4-cylinder SUV, but the 6 speed auto keeps it in the rev range that maximizes torque and passing power when needed. My wife is 7 months pregnant, and I feel very comfortable knowing shes in this car when she has to go out. Fuel economy is what was to be expected, though it is probably the cars worst aspect. I average about 22MPG combined, but the car only has 2,100 miles on it, so itll work in a bit and probably increase, but it is what was advertised so I cant complain.

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  What an amazing car - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Yasmin Longoria - July 7 - 11:00 am

  I am supposed to write what other buyers should know here. Go buy the car! That is all! It is amazing.

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  AWESOME!! - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Mrs. Tamara - April 25 - 9:00 pm

  I own a 2017 Kia Sportage and say no more, its easy on gas, quick on acceleration, quiet and I call it "My Lady Bug" lol. I love the style and the space in the back seat is good. I can fit 5 people in my Sportage with no problem. However I wish I could have got AWD instead of FWD, thats the only thing I would change. Its affordable, reliable, the trial SiriusXM Radio is so nice, hardly no commercials (Finally) I dont have to listen to the radio talking. Back to the Sportage, I own a Lexus SUV 2005 & I have two nice vehicles. Just goes to show me cars dont have to cost a fortune to be comfortable & cute.

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  Very much worth buying! - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Franics - January 24 - 6:46 am

  I have a Kia Sportage 2017 SX AWD which I bought in July 2016. I love it so much!. Fantastic design, comfort, and technology. The safety features help to prevent road accidents. My friends always say they like it too! Until now, I havent had any issues with it, still works nicely. It also has a backup camera but I just wish that the manufacturer included a 360-degree camera to better assist with parking. I compared the features of my Sportage to my friends Honda Civic and Ford Escape and I think the Sportage is better in total. I do not regret buying it.

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  best around!!! - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By paul - December 17 - 6:24 pm

  Absolutely love this vehicle, did a lot of research, drove a lot of cars,this IS the small SUV to have, makes my commute so much better, base engine could be a little more powerful,but is more than adequate,has everything. Zero complaint s, I love it.

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  Sportin my New 2017 Sportage EX - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By SillySindy - July 11 - 5:55 pm

  Wow... what a difference the 2017 Sportage EX is compared to the 2016 Sportage...BIG change....world of difference in comfort/road holding/steering/gadgets. Test drove the 2016 and 2017...knew right away...2017 Sportage EX was going to be my pick. Went with the premium package...didnt feel the technology package was worth the extra 2 grand. Only disappointing feature on the 2017 Sportage EX is the lack of cargo compartment space...no pockets in the back for items...everything slides around....no passenger side cargo space-saver under the seat and no coin change holder/personal/dodads draw or compartment to hide small items...just a big deep hole in the console that you probably will never find something in....once you place it in there....

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  SX AWD TURBO LOVING IT !!!! - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Dolf - June 27 - 9:21 am

  Love this car ! Compared it to its step brother the Hyundai Tucson that doesnt have the looks, or fine interior, or the 2.0 turbo engine. I believe Hyundai might have told Kia after having the newer better car, "oh no you dont , you are not posting good gas mileage results". Just a thought .... But we are getting 30mpg highway easily at a constant 65 mp/h We have even seen 33 Mpg ! On average after putting on 8000 miles I would day the Average MPG is about 25 with city driving and pretty bad freeway traffic here in L.A. The car is very nicely styled and quiet, powerful even at low rpms. The stereo/navigation is excellent ! We tried the AWD in the snow up in Big Bear Ca after a winter storm and were very impressed. The car has a comfortable ride but handles extremely well and feels tight on the steering. Parking is a breeze with its short turning radius. All and all my wife and I are happy with the car and highly recommend. The Audi Q5 is comparible but about 10-15k more expensive for a similar vehicle.

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  Vehicle = OK, KIA Service = BUST - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Andrew - October 18 - 1:29 am

  EDIT: Kia wants my unbiased review? Well, lets just say Kias customer service wont support you at all. I had an issue with a faulty gas tank latch. It is a new design where you push in on the fuel door and it locks into place, and to open it you also push in, and a spring pops the door out - dont know of a better way to describe it. I dont get why other designs needed to be replaced with this, or the fact that since it doesnt lock anymore anyway, why does it need a latch in the first place...but on to the story. Incidentally I also had a problem with the A/C completely freezing up and the vehicle needing to be reprogrammed, which of course ALSO happened while I was on the road but back to the point at hand. 6AM. Cold, dark fall morning. Getting fuel to go to an appointment out of town - medical specialist appointment. I pull in and try to open the fuel door. Wont budge. Repeated attempts - wont budge. Pushing on it much harder - nothing. It is not frozen because I have a temp.-controlled garage. I am now stranded at this station because no one can get the door open to fuel the vehicle and I do not have enough fuel to reach my destination. If I cancel this appointment I am still billed several hundred $ and the medical condition is not trivial. I have to get there. The cheap design and cheap little plastic spring mechanism in the fuel door latch has broken and jammed the door shut. After a few more minutes, I remember that it is plastic and decide I can get the door open and replace the little plastic part later. I eventually get the jammed/defective plastic part to snap, which allows me to open the fuel door but in doing so, I put a small scratch in the paint around the fuel door. No big deal, I am sure Kia will help me with this. Total cost estimate for the scratch = $125. My appointment would have been much more expensive to cancel. Later that morning I call Kia, because of course they are not open at 6AM. Why did I not call Kia Roadside? 2 reasons. 1) The service station mechanic who helped me with the latch tells me they are going to have to pry it open anyway and 2) I would have had to wait for them to show up, which means I would have missed the appointment regardless. Everyone there agrees with just getting it open and it makes sense to deal with it later. I call Kia. Kia tells me that since I didnt let them handle it, they wouldnt assist me at all with the claim and basically refused to talk to me. They accused me of deliberately damaging my new car. I ask them if their part could have had anything to do with it and they of course refused to even send someone to look. I have taken it to both a body shop and the local Kia dealer. Both places, I was told "Why is Kia not taking care of this for you?" I could only shrug. Heres the thing - I dont even want the fuel latch replaced. I want it left "broken" because now the door actually works as it should. I dont want another cheap plastic part put in there just so it can jam shut on me again. So all we are talking about is the scratch. I asked more than one Kia rep. what the procedure is for opening a stuck fuel door, knowing full well there isnt one and everyone knows they were going to have to pry the fuel door open. They would have had no other choice and they know it. The dealer pretty much confirmed that too. The rep. on the phone didnt want to answer. Of course they know their part failed but wont pony up $125 to help out a customer with their brand new vehicle. How cheap can you be, Kia? My experience with this vehicle has been overall fairly good until this point but now I will never buy another Kia. So guess what, Kia? I am paying $125 for this repair. You are losing my future business. We were thinking of replacing my wifes Escape with another Kia but now that wont be happening, either. A friend of mine who is replacing her vehicle asked me how I like my Kia and that she might get one. Not anymore. I wonder how many people I can convince to change their minds. I hope the $125 was worth the several thousand $ this will cost your company.

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  And The Winner Is - 2017 Kia Sportage
  By Gary - February 5 - 1:35 pm

  Seven Month Update: Per my original review, the 2017 Sportage is exceptional in every way. If you enjoy driving and you are in the market for a compact SUV there is just nothing else in this price range, that uses regular unleaded that even comes close to delivering the pleasure of driving the Sportage. Every morning, 7 months later I still look forward to taking it out on the road. The car has a beautiful silhouette that I just never tire of looking at. Seats in the EX are extremely comfortable. The car is easy to park and has plenty of hp to get you on the highway safely. The car is super quiet at least compare to my previous Honda CRVs. The safety features and camera that come with the EX Premium Package work flawlessly as does the whole multi-media interface for easy connections to your cell phone or Ipad. The vehicle is rock solid not a squeak or rattle anywhere. Buying a car is a totally subjective thing but if like myself, there is or was a reluctance to try a Korean car as opposed to an American or Canadian made Japanese vehicle......I think with 2017 the entire Kia line up shows a depth of quality, performance and design sophistication that Honda, Mazda, Toyota and Subaru just dont feel they need to step up to. Would highly recommend that you include both the Sportage on your test drive list. I’m going into week three with my 2017 Sportage EX with AWD and the EX Premium Package and just enjoy the heck out of it. I had crossed shopped the Kia with the Honda CRV and Mazda CX5. Other then gas mileage, the CRV is lacking in every category from ride quality, to handling, to quiet on the road, to the electronics and design language. In terms of design, Honda’s approach is to add 4 pieces of fake chrome and call it a mid cycle refresh. I happen to have had a 2016 CRV rental for 10 days and found the CVT yet another Honda attempt to convince us that it was worth sacrificing any pleasure at all in the driving experience for gas mileage and it just ain’t so. I’m a 6 time Honda owner including 3 CRVs and if the Kia delivers on the reliability I’m hoping for, those will probably be my last Hondas. The Mazda CX5 Touring with AWD was seemingly a less expensive and attractive alternative to the Kia in spite of it being 4-year-old technology, at least until you go just a bit under the skin. Check out the 61 complaints on the NHSTA website for the 2016 CX5, most of which focus on catastrophic failures of the transmission. In fact, look at blogs across the world including New Zealand and Australia, its a worldwide problem. And borrowing right from the movie Fight Club, the Old GM Handbook and Ford Pinto Directives, Mazda has taken the position that its cheaper to put their CX5 customers in harms way then to retool and fix the problem. All a Mazda Representative could say about the transmission failures was: the problem usually doesn’t happen twice to the same person. If that wasn’t enough to discourage me, there are the strange interior ergonomics of the vehicle with the cup holder placement too far back and thus impossible to use for your GPS, the poor rearward visibility and the location of the armrest. I also drove, to my great disappointment, the Hyundai Tuscon which at least for 2017 had probably the worst, under powered, turbo engine Ive ever experienced. I cant believe that anyone in Hyundai top management even bothered to drive the car before they green lighted it. You hit the gas, Nothing happens for 2-3 seconds and the the vehicle begins to move. A total disaster of an engine. The Sportage reminds me in a general way of the Audi Q5. It drives and feels planted like a German car. When you close the doors it sounds like a German car. Its nice to know that Peter Schreyer and the engineers he works with instilled more then a look into the vehicle. All the electronics and infotainment work well and are user friendly. The back up camera, rear traffic avoidance and blind spot monitoring are great. Sound quality on the radio us better then expected. Rearward visibility is excellent. At least on paper, the Magna AWD system with locking differential is probably the most sophisticated and capable on the market other then the Quattro and Subaru systems. So all in and all, I’m very pleased with the vehicle and enjoy driving it.