The 2024 Kia Sportage is a compact 5-seat SUV contemporary from a latest redesign that gave it extra horsepower, additional inside house, elevated cargo quantity, and a daring exterior design. Newly added to the vary had been two electrified variations of the Sportage, the Sportage Hybrid and Sportage Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV).

Every of the 2 builds upon the strengths of the Sportage whereas concurrently delivering a notable enhance in gas economic system. On this occasion, we’ll evaluate the professionals and cons of the usual Kia Sportage and its hybrid-powered (non-PHEV) stablemate. For this comparability, we’ll contemplate elements essential to automotive buyers, together with value, efficiency, security, cabin house, and effectivity.

2024 Kia Sportage

• Value: $27,090 (plus $1,325 vacation spot cost)
  
• Month-to-month gas value: $163 (FWD), $179 (AWD) 
• 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine
• 187 horsepower @ 6,100 rpm
• 178 lb-ft of torque @ 4,000 rpm
• EPA metropolis/freeway/mixed gas economic system: 25/33/28 mpg (FWD), 23/26/25 (AWD)

The 2024 Kia Sportage has a base value of $27,090 and is on the market in a number of trims. These embody the bottom LX, EX, X-Line, SX, and X-Professional. The latter of this quintet, the X-Professional, is geared towards SUV buyers who like one thing extra succesful on the subject of off-road driving – or not less than proudly owning a automobile able to traversing terrain extra demanding than a grassy parking zone on the native apple orchard.

The X-Professional and range-topping X-Professional Status come commonplace with all-wheel drive, a multi-terrain drive mode selector, 1.5 inches of added floor clearance, off-road tires, and redesigned entrance and rear bumpers. This extra rugged trim work, and far of the journey gear that comes with it, is unavailable on the Sportage Hybrid.

Turning consideration again to the remainder of the Sportage lineup, each mannequin is motivated by a 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine that serves up 187 horsepower and 178 lb-ft of torque. Entrance-wheel drive (FWD) is commonplace on most trims, and until it’s fitted as commonplace (like on the X-Professional), including all-wheel drive (AWD) is an extra $1,800. This upcharge is identical quantity you’ll pay so as to add AWD to the Sportage Hybrid.

The entry-level Sportage LX has a number of options, together with a user-friendly 8-inch touchscreen, wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a 12.2-inch digital instrument show, Bluetooth, a 6-speaker audio system, and a entrance USB-C port. This array is equivalent to the usual tech options of the Sportage Hybrid. You may improve every to an non-obligatory 10.25-inch touchscreen that’s much more practical and simple to navigate – although it requires a wired connection for smartphone projection.

It’s a neck-and-neck race between these two SUV siblings concerning lively security options, too. Each Sportage comes with Kia Drive Sensible Driver Help Know-how, a collection of lively security objects consisting of automated emergency braking, lane-keeping help, lane-following help, driver consideration monitor with main automobile departure alert, automated high-beam headlights, ahead collision avoidance help with automotive, pedestrian, and bike owner safety, rear parking sensors, and rear occupant alert. Security upgrades on each Sportage variants embody a surround-view parking digicam, blind-spot warning, and rear cross-traffic alert.

The Sportage and Sportage Hybrid are in a useless warmth concerning tech and creature comforts. But variations emerge if you’re behind the wheel.

2024 Kia Sportage Hybrid

• Value: $27,490 (2023 mannequin yr value)
• Month-to-month gas value: $104 (FWD), $117 (AWD) 
• 1.6-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine + two electrical motors
• 227 complete system horsepower
• 258 lb-ft of complete system torque @ 1,500 rpm
• EPA metropolis/freeway gas economic system: 42/44/43 mpg (FWD), 38/38/38 mpg (AWD)

The Sportage Hybrid feels faster and extra energetic than the non-hybrid because of the 2 electrical motors paired with its 1.6-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder gasoline engine. With 227 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque mixed at your disposal, the Sportage Hybrid has ample acceleration and passing energy that’s in minimal provide with the common Sportage. 

Throughout our time with the hybrid mannequin, we did discover the interaction between the fuel engine and electrical motors can really feel a bit uneven and never as seamless as what you discover in a rival just like the Honda CR-V Hybrid.

Nonetheless, this added pace and enhance in gas effectivity is a win for the Sportage Hybrid. Added to the efficiency benefit is the truth that the hybrid mannequin doesn’t value significantly greater than the non-hybrid variant. Accessible in three trims, the usual Sportage Hybrid LX has a beginning value of $27,490 for the 2023 mannequin (on the time of writing, Kia had not revealed pricing for the 2024 Sportage Hybrid or Plug-in Hybrid).

The Sportage Hybrid’s edge in gas economic system, an EPA-estimated 43 mpg in a mixture of metropolis and freeway driving, ought to steadiness this additional outlay. Including AWD knocks this right down to 38 mpg mixed. This result’s notably higher than the 28/25 mixed mpg averages within the FWD and AWD pure gasoline Sportage fashions.

As for cargo house, the Sportage Hybrid has only a hair lower than the usual gasoline mannequin: A still-copious 39.5 cubic toes behind the rear seat and 73.7 with the seat folded. That compares to the usual Sportage’s 39.6/74.1 numbers.

Extra 2024 Kia Sportage

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