Welcome to Tech in the car! I'm Oliver and this is a brand new fifth-generation Kia Sportage.
I'm here today and I'm going to drive all the different trims! the Kia Sportage was
launched in the uk in 1995 and this all new generation is based on the N3 platform
and it's been custom designed for europe so this car has been built from the ground up
to suit the european market with the crossover suv segment there are 18 different models eight power
trains and five different trim levels the two trim the three trim the gt line trim the four trim
and the gt line s trim today we've got petrol and diesel versions we've got a 48 volt mild hybrid
we've also got a full plug-in hybrid as well and a hybrid so there's a lot of choices here
the new sports are used the same design language as a key ev6 with the opposites united approach
kia have taken we've got this fantastic redesigned kia tiger nose grille and these cars they just
have a very aggressive purposeful look and inside you'll see in a minute when i get in the cars
they're very very similar to the ev6 and that's one of the things i loved most about the ev6
in my videos was the design in the interior i thought they were packed with technology
and these cars also have that same technology so these are really exciting cars the new sportage
is available in multiple colors here today we have the luna silver the deluxe white behind
me and this is the penta metal and these all have the black contrast roof which is
also available the new sportage is 30 centimeters longer 10 millimeters wider 10 millimeters higher
has got 10 millimeter longer wheelbase so it's bigger than the previous generation and
there's a choice of 17 18 and 19 inch alloy wheel designs which you'll be seeing on these cars here
and i have to say the 19-inch ones over here on this car look pretty fantastic i really
like those those are my favorite these four-sized diesel petrol mild hybrid full hybrid available
now later on this year the plug-in hybrid is also coming and will be available there's all-wheel
drive available as well as front-wheel drive and the car's capable of towing 1 650 kilograms
as well so it's got a pretty good tow load in terms of power we go from 113 horsepower to 226
horsepower what does the new kia sportage cost well it starts at 26 745 for the 1.6
petrol manual in the 2 trim going up to about 43 000 for the gt line s for the plug-in hybrid
and there are basically price points all the way between 26 and 43 000 depending on the trim so
there's something for everyone here there really is a huge amount of variety with the new sportage
and you know that's to be expected because the sports charger is kia's biggest selling car
and so it's the car which they're really focusing a lot of time and effort into making sure there's
something for everyone and looking at these cars today i think it's fair to say that that
isn't going to be a problem at all one of us facing the back well there's 591 liters of space
in the back of this car so we got quite a lot of space back here you can obviously pull out this
and adjust it like that and then these seats at the back can also be pulled down there's little
pulleys on the side here and then we can push these flats so you've got even more
space and you can move everything in and then there's some space underneath here for storage
as well so there's quite a lot of space back here and i do love the power tailgate
how much space is there in the back of the new 2022 kit sportage well i have to say there's a lot
of room here i'm quite comfortable i'm about 178 i've got decent headroom above me even with this
glass panoramic sunroof which is really beautiful i've got plenty of knee room i've got space under
the seats to put my feet out i feel really quite comfortable we've got airline style pockets here
we have airline style hooks here which i'm getting off your jacket because you need a really small
jacket but this is probably for your jacket or your coat there's little hangers built into the
back of the headrest which is a nice detail we've got two usb type-c connectors on the side of the
seat so you can plug in your phone in the middle here we have our climate control with two little
buttons and we've got a little space where you can store your phone and then let's not forget in the
middle of the seats we have two cupholders where you can put your drinks and then you can fold down
the seats from the back as well if you want them flat welcome inside the 2022 ks4 tires inside here
it looks very very similar to a key ev6 and that's a really good thing because i love the interior of
the key v6 you've got these two 12.3 inch curved displays which have all the latest technology
android auto apple car plates all on there you have it all in the middle here we have the really
cool center console which i really liked again about the ev6 is a slightly different ev6 there's
a gap here and there's extra area here but you know it's not an ev there is a engine in this car
even in the hybrid model we have our heating and cooled seats here and our heated steering wheel
and this which is one of the top spec cars we've got our gear selector which is a nice circular
rotary dial which you can turn between reverse forward and neutral and then you have our parking
and our reversing camera all to hold and our terrain control which is a cool feature in this
car and only in this car which we'll come on to in a little bit and then we've got our wireless
charging down here and we've got our usb standard type a and then our type c connected and as i
mentioned there are two usb type-c behind me in the seats at the side here which is a nice little
thing to add and then we have kia's multi-mode display now i really like this feature by the way
got a nice engine style style button here which allows you to swap between your climate controls
your navigation and media so i really really like this it means you can have less buttons but
they're changeable and i think this is a really clever feature of q and i think more car companies
should do it recently i've had a bit of a go at mercedes in the eqs having too many buttons which
they did and then we have the lucid which had some nice physical buttons and also had a similar idea
here on the lucid air there was a side screen on the side of the steering wheel which had touch
buttons kind of like this so really good idea i think car companies are going that way with
screens which are buttons it's a really clever thing to do strongly approve of that it gives
multiple functionality in the same space without adding lots of buttons so i love it we do have two
cup holders here we have an armrest with a space down here so you can put stuff into and then come
to the steering wheel the steering wheel is a more traditional kia steering wheel unlike in the ev6
but it still has everything you want it's got your voice control your volume up and down your phone
buttons and your adaptive cruise control and lane assist controls as well and then we have this kind
of cool kind of l-shaped vents on both sides which i like the look of and then obviously in this car
we also have memory seats one and two that i can adjust as well so it's a really nice interior if
you can obviously option a panoramic glass sunroof i would really recommend it i think glass roofs
sunroofs are really really fantastic they give you a lot of air they make the car feel much
brighter and a much nicer place to be also i have to give credit to kia i'm not a fan of black trim
but there's something about this black trim in this car and the ev6 it doesn't look quite as
annoying as it does in audis or mercedes i don't know what it is maybe it's because there's a lot
of buttons so you feel like the space is being used whereas on those cars they just stick the
black trim in there anyway so that's so that's nice even though i'm not about a bathroom i think
it looks good on here and i do like this metallic kind of imprinted design on the dash as well
which then matches with this soft touch plastic on the top here which has a sort of
a fake stitching effect but still looks really really good this is the 2022's kia sportage
and this is the hybrid 1.6 litre petrol with a six-speed automatic gearbox front-wheel drive and
this is 226 horsepower 350 newton meters of torque 0 to 60 in 7.7 seconds and has an mpg of 48.7
miles per gallon this is the gt line s this is a top spec version of this car the new 2022 sportage
and it's a hybrid but it's not a plug-in hybrid what that means is the electrical motor works
with the engine to make sure that you get really good economy and you get better performance in
terms of acceleration because there's no lag from the engine the electric motor does the
job for you and the electric motor is recharged by the regenerative braking that the car does
so when you come to a brake it recharges the electric motor this is one of the options on
this car there is a plug-in hybrid which you plug into the wall and you can charge up the battery
and this car can run only on electric motors so it means that you don't necessarily need to use
the engine you can't select the electric motor on its own but the car will intelligently handle that
for you the gt lion s has all the latest tech and this trim model includes the ability to use the
key fob to park your car remotely so you can move it forwards and backwards something which kia and
hyundai have been doing on all the latest cars if you expect it as an option so it's fully loaded i
love the interior of this car like i said before it's like the ev6 you've got these two beautiful
screens they're very very easy to see what's going on you've got your multimode display
which that you swap between your maps and your climate controls you know your map navigation
your media controls and then back to the climate so you can do all of that stuff which is really
really handy to have in one place now in terms of performance and ride and how it feels well this is
the front wheel drive version there is also an all-wheel drive version and in this front wheel
drive version i definitely don't feel like it's lacking for any grip it's moving very very nicely
obviously using that hybrid at 350 newton meters of torque i can feel it moving quite quite nippy
no issues there in terms of ride so right now we're in eco mode and we're moving around a
bit this is not a very even road but i'm very comfortable we're in eco mode right now let's
change the sports mode so when i turn the little knob here we get a change of the displays on here
this is a cool new graphic this is different to on the ev6 and now we've got a bit more performance a
bit more torque i can feel it gives me a bit more kick and we've got the full 226 horsepower 350
newton meters of torque this is the all-wheel drive version of the 2022 sportage and this has
got the same 226 horsepower the same 350 newton meters of torque but now we've got a all-wheel
drive four-wheel drive system this car can do zero to 60 in eight seconds compared to 7.7
for the front wheel drive so a slight variance on the slower side and acceleration but what it lacks
for an acceleration it gains with grip and ability down narrow roads and off-road because we gain
a terrain mode which is new to the sportage down here there's a button which says drive
which allows me to go between sport and eco but if i press it it goes into a terrain mode
in terrain mode i can now choose between snow mud and sand well you know this is england there's
not much sand but we put it into mud mode and this system allows the car to balance the power
to all the wheels to maximize the grip in scenarios such as mud snow and sand and it's the
first for the sportage and it's cool a little bit of technology and so let's just see zero to sixty
it definitely feels like it's more grip you definitely feel a difference between front wheel
drive rear drive that's not to say that if you have the front wheel drive you don't have any grip
obviously i have plenty of grip in front wheel drive mode but the difference is you do notice
you do notice it it does feel a bit better in day-to-day driving you won't make any difference
but you know on circumstances where you want an extra bit of grip having that all-wheel drive
system is definitely an improvement this is a 48-volt mild hybrid and this has some things
which are different from the other car so the first thing to note about this car is the drive
modes now it's got eco normal and sport whereas the hybrids only had eco and sport there was no
normal mode the other thing too is on this car we have a drive mode for lock so you can lock
the wheels when you're off-roading whereas on the hybrid version you couldn't lock the wheels
but on the four-wheel drive version of the hybrid you could put it into terrain mode
this is also a gt line s model so it's very very well specced very very well appointed there is
an electric motor but it's not able to run the car on its own so it can only ever help support
the engine and reduce the load on the engine so with the other two cars i've driven the hybrids
the battery and the electric motor can actually run the car without the engine being on so the
mild hybrid basically uses the electric motor to support the engine and reduce the pressure
that the engine is under use to load the engine is under so that means you get improved economy
and a car which is a bit nicer to drive and a bit smoother to drive in terms of power this car has
less power it's 148 horsepower 250 newton meters of torque so it's got less power and it's got less
torque and therefore it's slower it's around 9.6 seconds to 60 miles an hour so is a slower
car but like i said it costs less than the hybrid more than the standard petrol versions obviously
there's a gt line so it's towards the higher end as well but it fits in there's something
for everyone in this line of the sport arch which is really really good to see from kia this is the
1.6 litre petrol version in the 3 trim of the 202 sport touch and a couple of interesting things to
note the other cars i've driven have a different center console and i'll comment on that when i'm
driving in a minute but the other thing too is you kind of feel like there should be a handbrake here
in the middle and there isn't a handbrake the handbrake is at the side of the steering wheel
on this side here which is very interesting now that is the same as on the other sportages
but on the other sport chargers because they're automatic you don't really notice it i feel like
something's missing here doesn't anyway affect the driving just an interesting thing to to note
the other thing to know is the drive mode button is in different position than on the hybrids as
well you can of course change your modes using the button here gain different position to the
other car this is one of the lower spec versions of this four target there are lots of things
which are different in this car and there are a lot of things which are the same for example
things which are the same as it still got these curved 12.3 inch displays which look fantastic
and which i really really like but then there are things that are different for example in the
middle console here there's a totally different design of how it's all set up and how it works
which is different to the other trims things which are the same like i said the 12.3 inch screens the
multi-mode display which i love and the interior is the same in terms of the dashboard design
obviously it's missing some stitching effects at the top here and the door is just a bit more
plain than on the higher trims this gearbox is super smooth when i change gears i don't feel
any stuttering from the engine i don't have any issues changing gears i don't feel like
models i tested but how does it feel well when i'm accelerating now i'm going through the gears
it's very smooth i don't feel like i'm wanted for any tour i feel like i've got more than enough to
overtake and to do what i need to do we have a key alert system for letting me know when i'm changing
lanes so i don't drift which is fantastic so yeah very good performance not as fast as the other two
but smooth easy to drive not lacking for any power i think you'd have a great time driving
this car so what do i think of the all-new kia s4 tires well i think it's got something for everyone
there's a model and a trim and an engine for every type of person if you're after a crossover
suv this car has electric technology inside it's got the latest safety features as well depending
on what trim you have so it's got something for everyone and there's space in the back
for you to store stuff after you to put your dog if you go out so it's got something for everyone
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