New images of the 2010 Kia Sorento
Last week, we showed you some great shots of the VG sedan beeing caught while testing in the Death Valley. But that was not the sole Kia vehicle that spy photographers snapped at the same location. The mysterious VG sedan had some company in American South West. It was joined by Soul and heavily camouflaged Sorento crossovers.
Next generation Sorento gets new styling and no doubtly follows the design direction boldly signposted by the Kue concept, that was first shown at Detroit Auto Show in 2007.
Unlike the current model, the 2010 Kia Sorento will not be a proper BOF SUV. In a bid of more car-like feel, the new Sorento will abandon its current body-on-frame chassis configuration in favor of a unibody platform that offers sharper driving dynamics but impacts on the vehicle’s towing capabilities. Towing capacity on the 2010 Sorento is expected to drop from 3500 kg (current Sorento) to around 2800 kg.
Our early reports suggested that Kia will debut the all-new 2010 Sorento at one of the auto shows in USA, but now, we have been confirmed that the world premiere for the new Sorento will be held at Geneva Motor Show in March next year. It is expected to arrive into the dealer’s showrooms by the end of 2009 as a 2010 model.
Spy shots seen here are from Thecarconncetion and Worldcarfans websites, where you can find more of them, but there are also plenty of other automotive websites that published their own spy reports about the new Sorento. You can find some here, here or here.
2010 Sorento gallery:
August 18th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Is, is that Sorento’s roof covered in skylight?
August 18th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Nice Borrego in the background. It looks too much like santafe from the side.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
i was GUNNA ask if anyone noticed the huge moonroof but JTZ did that for me. i wish the soul had that option.
August 18th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I was hoping to see the moonroof on the Soul too, but at least there is on the new Sorento. It will also be at the new Soul based minivan, that Kia is developing and I have posted some spy shots of it already.
I gues, we will see the moonroof on several upcoming Kia models, but doubt for the Soul. I suspect it wasn’t developed with that in-mind.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Looks a lot bigger than the current sorento. I read somewere that it’s going to be as big as the veracruz.