I test drove one of these the other week and was able to accelerate up to 70 mph and stay on electric only power without the petrol motor kicking in. I was very impressed.
Aug22: Ordered one in June. Delivery early next year. They've had so much interest they've stopped taking orders while production catches up. Meanwhile I'm enjoying the anticipation through videos like this. The video, btw, is one of the best, most honest, technically detailed out there. Thanks!!
excellent review? he showed nothing , well almost nothing apart from the boot and drone footage. He could have been sat in a Golf for all we know. If this review was your first exposure on this car then you still know nothing about it. It was just general impressions from the driver.
KIA is killing it of late! I like them a lot (we even got one of their hybrids few months back!) One thing that annoys me though and that has been an (admittedly small) issue in every KIA I've tried is that they let in a lot of road noise. I hope it's something they will fix in the future.
I have the Sportage GT Line S PHEV on order expected November. Thanks for making a video with more detail on the phev offering. I have been watching a lot of reviews and I am glad this video came up. Could you put U.K. in the tags as it’s hard to find a U.K. review of the PHEV version. Maybe because it’s fairly new. 🚙
@@boothy6957 i ordered early May. i was told it would be delivered within 14-16 weeks but my update last week was mid to end November. i think it will be worth it when it arrives i just wish the reality was advised re-lead times
@@ritahjean543 yeah I bet you do, along with a load of other people. It’s between this and a Kuga for me but money wise, I can’t get anywhere near the Sportage with the same spec as the Kuga ST-Line X.
I ordered a GTline S Phev in mid Jan 2022 and it arrived end of July so 7 mths the original quoted delivery was April, but worth the wait it's a beauty 👌 I understand from some dealers the Kia RV6 can be upto 12 to 18 mths.
I would love to have this car but I do mainly long, motorway driving and the economy is just simply not good when used in that way. Otherwise it is an awesome vehicle
Question: if you only do commuter short travels, why don't you just get an electric car and dispense with lugging around an ICE you don't need? You could rent a car for once- in-a-year vacation. And if you do a lot of kilometers, why lug around with a battery that dies after just 25 miles?
Your question is not to find answers,is to prove your point. The plug-in cars are for people that can only have one car,use it for commuting and the electric range it's enough but they also do longer trips and don't want to stop to charge or there's no possiblity to charge it. For me an plug-in is the worse of them all,for some the best that exists. For me the pic of the range is the HEV. For who does a lot of highway miles the diesel is the answer,but it's beyond me why would you buy a big heavy SUV instead of an sw if you do a lot of miles
Mark - my ID full stop 3 has the slowing down around bends techy bit as part of the driving experience. So VW is doing some of the same. But appreciate this is a great package car.
He showed nothing , well almost nothing apart from the boot and drone footage. He could have been sat in a Golf for all we know. If this review was your first exposure on this car then you still know nothing about it. It was just general impressions from the driver.
A few points- Try showing, more of the car! How to select, the different modes.. What the inside, looks like, compared to the other models, if any etc... We don't, get to see much at all here! So people, not seeing any other new, Kia Sportage videos, won't get much, of a feel for the car, inside & out with what, you have produced here! All the best, stay safe...
@@vanaramauk I know that Mark... Just, I don't believe it's mentioned here, so people just stumbling, upon this video, might not know & just take it, at face value.... So, maybe a few edits, to show the inside, & when you mention, selecting electric only mode, it showed that... Would have made it, a lot better... Including, mentioning about the more in depth video review, of this vehicle, near the beginning!?? Apart from that, I know what your style & format, just my friend whom watched it, on my smart TV, was commenting, about what I've said here, & above.. Basically, that hmmm he's not showing me, the car inside, & the outside shots, are a bit far away, arty farty look, I've got a drone, to video me shots, that don't work as well, as they could, because of the lack of, some decent close ups etc... Look, he's mentioning selecting this/that, but he's not showing it, in the video! Why, was this made, it's pretty pointless, really! I did say, well he's most likely, got a more in depth review, on it if you look etc... To which my friend said, well then just, have the more in depth one, mentioning the drive quality etc... & showing the features, inside & out etc... then, this video isn't needed! I said, I'll mention it! He said, if the guy had if said, right at the beginning, watch my more in depth review, of this model here etc... as this one, doesn't really go, in2 much detail etc... Then, he would have just skipped it, & watched the other video 👍👍 So, I was just passing on his, critique of this video review. He also pointed out, that someone else, has mentioned similar things, in the comments! Anyway, all the best, stay safe & I look forward, to seeing more detailed video reviews, in the future 👍👍 I've told my friend, to look over your video selection 👍👍 P.s I've just ordered, a GT-LINE S HEV... 👍👍
Sounds as though the PHEV has the usual PHEV challenges. Weight etc. Perhaps the cordless hybrid makes the most sense??? Mark fogive my asking but whats the deal with Sportaaaaaage? To a foreigner it sounds awfully posh, or should that be poshaaaage? Great review!
e -cvt does not have "rubber banding " there are no belts or bands in a an e-cvt transmission - its unfortunate they have used that term, as they bear no relationship to the banded type CVT systems ( so hated by many )
I believe the planned EV4 model will be the one you are alluding to as (to quote where I read somewhere) it will be “close in size to the company’s Sportage”.
So the PHEV is £10k more - how are you going to grab back that initial outlay? By owning it several years? Except everyone is going to end up leasing in the future and what's going to happen to all those 3yr old PHEV cars? Hmmm
WTF? Just the price is a con? What about the weight? What about the fact that the extra power is there just to offset the extra weight? What about the fact it's not actually faster because of thet 200+kg extra weight?
Apparently the 2022 e-Niro is really good. Haven't had a chance to try it yet though. But you'd think there's a space in between the e-Niro and EV6 where it would fit quite nicely. Or maybe they are planning on making a SUV version of the EV6?
If you just drove 10 miles a day at a snails pace and charged the battery every night, would the mpg not just end up at 999mpg? I don’t get how they come up with a figure on PHEVs
Similarly to how they come up with any fuel efficiency figures; by combining the average of different driving types and cycles. Which is why I might get into a car and get 40mpg and you might get into the same car and achieve 45mpg. Because you drove differently, to a different place on a different road. And whilst your usage figure isn’t impossible, few people drive like that in real life. Plus, if they did why wouldn’t they just get an electric car?
Nobody can account for different types of drivers and different road or weather conditions. But if you test all cars under the same condition e.g. in a laboratory, then what it does is give a figure where you can make comparison. So if Car 'A' returns 40mpg on average, car 'B' returns 50mpg on average, whilst you probably won't achieve those figures, you should find car B will return 10mpg more than car A.
The average distance about 90% of people drive is apparently around 9 miles so this comes into it: WLPT tests are absolutely not representative of what you will ever see from a car and are a complete joke.
After owning one of these for 4 months and 3300 miles I can truly say that this is an awful car. The gearbox is hesitant, the infotainment system is absolute garbage, the accelerator pedal is pure Fisher Price. It would appear that Kia has released this terrible product onto the market ahead of carrying out any testing leaving the end user to find out all of it's problems. This is my first Kia and will be 100% my last, I cannot wait for this lease to end.