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31 Responses to “Next gen Kia Sportage and Hyundai Tucson spied”
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July 22nd, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Wow the gold on the Sportage is terrible.
July 22nd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
the gold looks good on the sportage. 1st and 4th pic is the tucson.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I like the gold color! It seems like Kia will pick some nice exterior colors for the next Sportage.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
I like the gold color too! Looks good under wraps even.
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Why doesn’t someone (at night when no one is around), cut off all that padding and stuff of the cars then take pictures of them? LOL xD
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
i like the gold. bout the only other car company i see with cool colors on SUV’s is Saturn with the VUE. i see it in gold, lime green, bright teal, purple, & all kinds of colors. mind you they’re on the sportiest model. i like it.
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:51 am
I found a REALLY, REALLY bad photoshop. If you really squint at it, you can kind of get the idea. Click the red of my name to see.
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 am
It looks KND4-ish.
July 23rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
u found it? or you did it??? that’s not photoshop. that’s “paint”.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
I found it. I said that it sucked, but, anything is better than the crappy black crap on it now.
July 23rd, 2009 at 11:23 am
Kia’s not introducing this new Sportage until MY2011. It has a new facelift for MY2009. So what IS so wrong about a NEW Optima for MY2011 when the facelift was MY2009? The 2010 Sportage even has one more styling update, a tiger nose grille (reminiscent of the 2010 Soul’s), and the 2010 Optima will be visually identical to 2009.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
My name link depicts a 2010 Sportage.
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Better picture of the Kia Sportage was posted already:
http://www.kia-world.net/index.php/2009/07/01/2011-kia-sportage-sl-spy-shots/
July 24th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Greg the 2010 one will be out for only 6 months. The 2011 Sportage will be out spring 2010.
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That Sportage looks very Masculine and Powerful.
July 24th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I bet Sportage will look way better than Tucson!
July 24th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Even in today’s current models, the sportage look good than the tucson.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:02 am
The Sportages looks like a Truck. The Tuscon looks like a Truck/Car.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Kia got the head start making SUV’s. Hyundai’s Tucson just came out what, about 4 years ago? Kia supplied the Korean military with SUV’s and was building commercial production SUV’s well before Hyundai’s SUV ideas hit the draw-ring board, yes? Having said that, build quality may be similar, but looks go once again to Kia Motors of SK, IMO.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Also Bryan, it seems like Hyundai is going for the big bodied car feel from an SUV, well at least in the States.
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Most Auto journalists have been commenting that the Hyundai SUVs feel more like big cars than they do SUVs.
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If you want a Big car with a Luxury Feel but without the limitations of a car get the Hyundai SUV. If you want the sportiness, power and feel of a Truck then get the KIA. I wouldnt do Either until they supply us Americans with diesels though.
July 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
TO ME, the Tuscan looks to be more rugged (current model of course) as in “hey guys lets go romp in the dirt” but the Sportage looks more CAPABLE… like a Range Rover… smooth & sophisticated but putt’er in 4WD and go off the beaten path & enjoy a nice stroll thru the muggy mud-bogged forest off the beaten path. make sense? the Sportage is the more mature off-roader between the two. its the same concept of a car being a “sleeper”…
July 27th, 2009 at 12:53 am
its only good for snow or ice, real offroading your taking a chance. The Borrego is the only thing close to taking offroad now that the Sorento is gone or changing to the front wheel drive platform with a driveshaft running to the rear differential.. most people who buy four wheel drives never use them anyways..
July 27th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Gregory Ahn-I owned a 2001 Sportage 4X4 and my 4WD saved my butt in Missouri snow and ice at least 3 times. It worked like a champ and was easy to engage right by the stick shift. No getting out and locking/unlocking hugs manually like those who had WARN hubs installed. Apparently there were a significant # of American Sportage 4X4 owners who complained of failing automatic drive changes. So they had manual hubs by WARN installed. I never needed to have that done-I just used the automatic system installed in the cabin to switch 4WD and back to 2WD. Always worked as it was designed to work-another fine Kia product. Saved my hindquarters in MO and ID in the snow and ice.
July 27th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Someone around here that owns a Sorento takes theirs down to the beach in the winter, and drives it on the snow covered sand, into the icy water, and just tears it up.
July 28th, 2009 at 5:25 am
Bryan that was still a real 4 wheel drive, now people want a Lexus and not a real 4 wheel drive. I had a redesigned grand cherokee once, I hit a rock with the lower control and bent the unibody. A real four wheel drive it would not phased it all..A real 4 wheel drive has a frame..
July 28th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Did himi go on vacation?? He hasn’t posted to the blog in 6 days. This story is really getting old!
July 28th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Greg: I’m not on holidays…just yet. I just lacked some free time over the past couple of days and didn’t post. I’ll be back with daily updated Kia news later today!
July 29th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Gregory Ahn-yep, you’re absolutely right, and our ’01 Kia Sportage was a real BOF, albeit smallish SUV. Built like a tank, though, and the Korean military got Kia’s military-version of Sportage. I can just bet that they utilized it’s tough BOF and 4WD. My wife loved our Sportage, she ran over to the Sportage’s when at Jerry Smith Kia in Anacortes, WA, in Sept. of 2001. This was my 1st exposure to Kia dealerships. I wanted the “new look” 2002 Kia Spectra. She looked me in the eye square and said “Yeah, but I don’t want another one of those small cars, though.” We were trading in our beloved 1999 Kia Sephia. I loved the Sephia, loved it enough to want another new Kia product. So we stayed there late and made a deal on a 2001 Kia Sportage 4X4 in Pepper Red and 5-speed manual tranny. She would say she would’ve just kept the ’01 Sportage 4X4 with 130,000 miles on it after I fell for the 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS and traded the Sportage 4X4 in for it in March of 2007. She likes the Lancer GTS but LOVED the ’01 Sportage 4X4. It was a great little SUV, not perfect, but strong, solid and fun to drive. I will always remember it fondly, and it’s strong showing is one of the reasons that one day we may return to Kia Motors for a new rig. Perhaps a new Forte Hybrid in a few years.
July 29th, 2009 at 4:55 am
I take that back, we also bought our 1999 Kia Sephia at Jerry Smith Kia in Anacortes, WA! Must be tired, been slaving for several days straight at the hospital now. The trade-in for the ’01 Sportage 4X4 was our 2nd exposure to Kia dealerships, albeit the same exact Kia dealership.
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 am
A Rio with good tires is what the doctor ordered for snow. I know the Accent is, why shouldnt the Rio be?
August 5th, 2009 at 9:56 am
what are some of you on???
If you actually bothered to read any of the data coming out on these cars then you would know:
MY2009 Sportage is already out
Hyundai own Kia – so much for a head start in buidling SUV’s
Both the 2010 Sportage and Tucson are being built in the same factory in europe.
They are using the same floorplan/chassis
They use the same engines
The bodywork will be similar so how one will look ‘way better’ than the other is a mystery
Both will be released at the Frankfurt motorshow next month.
The Sorento has a new model coming out in late 2009/2010 as well
August 5th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Gibbo-you need to read up on South Korean automotive history yourself. Kia Motors was around first, sometime in the 1940′s they started up making bicycles then started on car production. Kia only became “owned” by Hyundai in 1998, during the SK economic crisis. And even then, Kia negotiated the deal to include their own autonomy economically and production design-wise. They have very separate design departments and very different directions and “automotive identities.” I agree, they work together more now than ever, but in the late 90′s these two forced into this unison, for many Kia workers this agreemnt was on paper only. Kia has always had a very individual and determined automotive design department.