2025 Kia Sportage

The 2025 Kia Sportage is a compact crossover SUV manufactured by Kia, a South Korean automaker. The 2025 Kia Sportage has a 187-horsepower 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine and an 8-speed automatic transmission. 2025 Kia Sportage is available in LX, EX, X-Line, SX, SX Prestige, X-Pro and X-Pro Prestige trim levels. The Sportage has 8.3 inches of ground clearance and is available with all-wheel drive. The Sportage offers a choice of engines, including a peppy turbocharged option, which offers enough power for everyday driving needs, handles well on the road, and offers a smooth and composed ride, making it suitable for travel in town and on the highway.

2025 Kia Sportage SUV

2025 Kia Sportage Interior

The more powerful Sportage Hybrid and PHEV, reviewed separately, primarily address this problem. Compared to the Mazda CX-5 and Honda CR-V, the Sportage uses standard features and equipment, with an affordable starting price to make it a fun drive. Front-wheel drive is standard on most trims, but all-wheel drive is available. The Sportage’s disruptive design doesn’t end up being confused with any other crossover, but it shares its DNA with its sibling, the Hyundai Tucson.

2025 Kia Sportage Hybrid

The Kia Sportage has many advanced safety features, such as automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping assist, and adaptive cruise control, contributing to its popularity as a family car. Overall, the Kia Sportage is a solid choice in the compact SUV segment, offering a combination of style, comfort, performance, and value that makes it worth considering for anyone looking for a versatile and affordable crossover.

2025 Kia Sportage : Interior

Inside, the Sportage impresses with a sleek design highlighted by a large digital display on the dashboard and various other eye-catching details. The interior is available in an attractive two-tone palette as an option, but if you prefer an all-black cabin, that’s also available. Thanks to its large size and long wheelbase, the Sportage offers rear legroom and 40 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rear seats, there is also a two-level loading floor for added flexibility.

The Kia 2025 Sportage comes loaded with desirable features like Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Eight-inch display screen is standard and all models come with a digital gauge display. It’s suggested upgrading to the larger infotainment screen, which measures 12.3 inches wide and offers more connectivity and clearer graphics. There are also neat touch controls below the infotainment interface that switch between the climate control system and the stereo. Upgraded Harman/Kardon unit available with wireless phone charger and Wi-Fi hotspot subscription.

2025 Kia Sportage : Engine

The Kia Sportage is equipped with a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine and an 8-speed automatic transmission. Although compact crossovers are not the best choice for regular trailer use, the Kia Sportage has a towing capacity of 2,500 pounds, but only when equipped with an aftermarket trailer brake controller. The Sportage is rated at 25 mpg city and 32 mpg highway when equipped with front-wheel drive; All-wheel-drive models are EPA-rated at 23 mpg city and 28 mpg highway. On our 75 mph fuel economy route, the all-wheel-drive Sportage X-Pro Prestige returned 31 mpg.

2025 Kia Sportage : Safety

The 2025 Sportage offers a variety of standard and optional driver assistance technologies. The range includes everything from navigation-based adaptive cruise control to a remote parking feature almost identical to Hyundai’s Smart Park system. Emissions test results will be available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) website. Important safety features include blind-spot monitoring, automated emergency braking, lane-keeping assist, lane departure warning, rear cross-traffic alert, and forward collision warning.