2008 Kia Sportage is it a good suv or not?

[adam]

2008 Kia Sportage is it a good suv or not?
im a 20 year old male and was thinking about getting a kia sportage. what are the pro. and con. im looking at the lx 4X4. there selling it for 16500. is that a good price.

[solvent]

Where I live, it is not a good used SUV buy (no 4 X 4 available)

It cost between China-made SUV and Japanese-made SUV to buy. Yet consume more petrol than those China-made SUV

[cosmicellimist]

The Kia Sportage is a great economy small SUV. Fuel economy is decent and its cheap. On the downside the resell value will be horrible, and you may be upside down on it for a while.

To be honest you should get the Hyundai equivalant to the Sportage called the Tuscon. It has a better interior and Hyundai's resell value is now higher than Kia's. 16500 is a great price for the car. The LX is the top of the line trim.

[rcdrury]

Outstanding choice. The Sportage is Kia's equivalent to the Hyundai Tucson, which was in recent years awarded the nation's top-ranking compact SUV.

The Kia product is built to a slightly lower quality scale than the Hyndai, similar to a Chevy versus GMC truck; but the unrivaled 10-year/100k warranty is the same, so dependability is not an issue.

Do get the V6. The 2.0 liter four cylinder is, in my opinion, severely underpowered for this vehicle, and you only sacrifice about 1 MPG.

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