The brand’s best-selling model updates the exterior and interior design in order to face its final stretch before the replacement of its next generation in two or three years.
Without a doubt the most important novelty is the inclusion of the revised powertrain including the 2.0l mild hybrid EcoDynamics + diesel and the new 1.6l U3 diesel.
The reduction of CO2 is the most striking feature of the newly released EcoDynamics + system, achieving data of up to 4% as a final result of the WLTP test. It also includes new technologies in the infotainment systems and driving assistance, chapters that today have become protagonists when selecting a new model.
But to understand the importance of this model on the Korean brand not only in Spain but worldwide, it may be interesting to take a look at the past and that is what we are going to do.
In 1994, the first generation Sportage was born, a four-wheel-drive, five-door, off-road skin truck with a 1998cc four-cylinder engine with a five-speed manual transmission. More than a decade later, in 2005 the second generation was born. A more modern and robust design where it offered two engines, one 2.0-liter four-cylinder gasoline and the other diesel with the same displacement and 112 hp.
It didn’t take that long for the third generation to debut. In 2010 comes the true beginning of the modern generation of the Sportage. A model that revolutionized the brand worldwide and with an image that today would be within the canons of the design language of current SUVs.
An innovative look with a totally renewed design and the new tiger nose front designed by Peter Schreyer. On this occasion, the Korean manufacturer takes a very important step forward in the safety of almost ten years ago and that although you think that it is not very far , it has little to do with the current one. Eight different versions and two engines, one diesel and one gasoline, were the commercial offer at that time.
And after another five years later, in 2015, the generation that is updated in this exercise arrives. Positioning itself in a modern and sporty image, this generation was born, adapting perfectly to the concept that society and the automotive industry have been positioning the new modern concept of “SUV”. Different engines with more luxurious and sporty finishes defined a model that puts for the first time in its generations the seal of guarantee and credibility of a seven-year guarantee.
