I've been researching Sportages for years. After test driving more than 5 over the last 2 years,we traded our '12 Silver ! for a '14 Signal Red LX AWD w/convenience pkg. Two days/312 miles and my wife and I are in love with this cuv. She was very upset with me that I wanted her to ''look'' at the Sportage yesterday,but softened when she saw the awesome red color and was hooked after a 12 mile test drive. It DOES look very good up close,rides and handles very nicely,and is about half as loud in road/engine noise as the '12 Soul. Avg mlg looks to be about 25 so far,but I'll report after some more checks.
I still have my '12 Shadow Soul+ with 122,120 miles that I drive for work and intend to drive to over 350,000 miles if this job(and it) lasts. We love our Souls,but I am a ''car-aholic'' and am always looking at something different that seems to make sense. The ''concept-car'' styling of the current Sportage always intrigued me.
The '14 Sportages now have the GDI 2.4 which feels just enough more peppy to power the heavier AWD. I drove a new SX Turbo AWD and maybe it needed to have more miles on it than 18,but it didn't feel that zippy or linear. GOOD,because I got the LX for $9000 difference trading the ! with 13,215 miles. The SX was not loaded at $29760,but would've been about $3700 more. I would have surely considered an EX AWD at about $1800 over the LX,but there were none within 100 miles.
The new Soul may ride better/quieter,but there's no AWD-which helps even in wet weather-and I needed a car that that I LIKE the styling of,not just one I appreciate the styling of.
Not downing the Soul at all,but if anyone is considering a Sportage,there currently are better incentives on them than I've seen before(at least in my area),and we like ours more every time we drive it. Plus,Kia doesn't bring many to the US-they push the US built Sorento-so seeing a Sportage is as rare as seeing Souls used to be.
I still have my '12 Shadow Soul+ with 122,120 miles that I drive for work and intend to drive to over 350,000 miles if this job(and it) lasts. We love our Souls,but I am a ''car-aholic'' and am always looking at something different that seems to make sense. The ''concept-car'' styling of the current Sportage always intrigued me.
The '14 Sportages now have the GDI 2.4 which feels just enough more peppy to power the heavier AWD. I drove a new SX Turbo AWD and maybe it needed to have more miles on it than 18,but it didn't feel that zippy or linear. GOOD,because I got the LX for $9000 difference trading the ! with 13,215 miles. The SX was not loaded at $29760,but would've been about $3700 more. I would have surely considered an EX AWD at about $1800 over the LX,but there were none within 100 miles.
The new Soul may ride better/quieter,but there's no AWD-which helps even in wet weather-and I needed a car that that I LIKE the styling of,not just one I appreciate the styling of.
Not downing the Soul at all,but if anyone is considering a Sportage,there currently are better incentives on them than I've seen before(at least in my area),and we like ours more every time we drive it. Plus,Kia doesn't bring many to the US-they push the US built Sorento-so seeing a Sportage is as rare as seeing Souls used to be.
. If I had the room I'd have about 8 different cars (my wife recently tempted me of moving with a house that has a 6 car garage!), but where I am now 3 is pretty much the limit without playing musical cars since I keep my daily driver garaged.
