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Test drive Kia Sorento 2.2 CRD: Cold calculation

The new Sorento is built on the second -generation crossover platform Hyundai Santa Fe. Now Sorento has a transverse location of the engine and a multi -disc booth in the rear wheels drive.

The first generation Kia Sorento was the most real rogue. The frame design, a dependent rear suspension, connected front bridge, what else is needed for happiness. Despite not the most successful sales in Russia, in its eight -year history, Sorento has firmly settled in the domestic market, having become famous, practical, inexpensive, quite reliable, and most importantly an honest SUV.


The new Kia Sorento got rid of the frame structure. Now it is a 100%crossover.

But time is inexorable, technological progress moves forward, and at the same time a car fashion changes. Now at the zenith of fame are ordinary front -wheel drive Parners connecting the rear axle, only when slipping. They move more and more along the asphalt, afraid to stain their road tires in the mud.


No wonder the new exterior was developed in the KIA California design bureaus. The North American market is the main thing for the Sorento model. Although South Korean marketers have high hopes for the Russian market.

In addition, at the most important US market for the Kia Sorento, where more than 900 thousand first -generation cars were sold, the most popular version of such a crossover is a modification with front -wheel drive. To satisfy the market need and keep up with the times, the new generation of Kia Sorento turned out to be completely different.


A strict salon is decorated with pseudo -driven inserts and beige leather decoration. You can’t hold on the assembly, but the quality of the materials leaves much to be desired.

The novelty is built on the second -generation crossover platform Hyundai Santa Fe. Now Sorento has a transverse location of the engine and a multi -disc booth in the rear wheels drive. Despite the increased size, the mass of the new generation decreased by 215 kg, the engines have become more economical, and CO2 emissions comply with the ecological standard of Euro-5.


Expensive versions of Sorento are equipped with 18-inch alloy disks, xenon headlights of head light and LED rear lights.

The archaic angular appearance of the first generation was replaced by a new design developed in the California design of Kia under the leadership of Peter Schreyer, under the leadership of which Volkswagen Golf IV, Passat B5, as well as the first Audi TT and VW New Beetle, were created. As a result, Kia Sorento squints cunningly with a head of the head optics, between which the radiator grille is located chromium. A massive front bumper with a considerable overhang once again recalls that the hard off-Road is now too tough for him. Overweight, where two chairs of the third row were located under the labeling of the trunk, decorated with large lanterns, which in the top versions glow bright LEDs. Massive sidewalls are diluted with elegant stamping and large 18-inch (in the base of 17-inch) wheeled wheels with tires 235/60 R18.


The front seats have good side support, but the skin is too slippery.

Inside the dress code: black top, white bottom. The interior is stylish and functional. The assembly is at a height, but the plastic used in the decoration is oak. The front seats are convenient and equipped with good side support. A car in the top configuration Premium is equipped with a Russified navigation system. The navigation works perfectly, but even a person with eagle vision will not be able to enter the desired address without being distracted from the road. The letters on the touch screen can only be seen with a magnifying glass.


A panoramic roof with a hatch that opens in the front is the prerogative of the top execution Premium.

Of the other benefits of civilization, which debuted on Sorento, a panoramic roof with a hatch of the rear view, a USB connector, xenon headlights, a system of automatic alignment of the body height with self -loading rear shock absorbers, as well as a separate air conditioner and deflectors for the third row and the rear view camera, image From which it is displayed on a tiny display in the salon mirror of the rear view.


In terms of equipment, Sorento is in no way inferior even to its more eminent rivals. There is everything from two-zone climate control, ending with the navigation system and a separate air conditioner for the third row of seats.

If in the third row adult passengers can only a short trip, then for guests of the second row there are a lot of free space, a convenient armrest, blowing deflectors and the ability to adjust the angle of the back. The only thing that remains incomprehensible the lack of hooks for clothes in the ceiling handles. Do Koreans do not wear jackets?


2.2-liter turbodiesel with a capacity of 197 hp It gives a seven -seater crossover good dynamics.

The test Kia Sorento was equipped with a 2.2-liter diesel engine with a capacity of 197 hp. and a torque of 436 nm. Good return for a 4-cylinder engine! Summary is also to match. A large crossover sensitively reacts to the floor pedal of gas, demonstrating a very worthy dynamics of acceleration. And even at speeds for a hundred diesel do not stew and continues to confidently drive the tachometer arrow to the maximum 190 km/h. The machine did not disappoint either. A six -speed transmission switches smoothly and timely. If this is not enough, then you can try to switch programs manually, but the perfectly configured work of the box allows you to use this function only for the sake of entertainment.

Despite the far from the lowest center of gravity, Kia Sorento pleased with small rolls in corners and clear feedback on the actions of the steering wheel. If a small emptiness is felt in the near -Stolium zone, then on the turn the information content of the steering wheel gives pleasure.

The reckoning for good handling and small rolls, as always, became comfort. Sorento counts all the joints of the asphalt and minor irregularities with persistence. Meanwhile, there are no more shaking on the pits, only slight fluctuations. The straight crossover holds perfectly, does not scour in the rut, demanding a little adjustment due to slightly smeared zero on the steering wheel.
 

Large overhangs and the lack of advanced off -road lotions do not have heavy off -roads. Meanwhile, with ordinary obstacles, which usually have to be overcome by the ordinary crossover, Kia Sorento copes without problems.

The former off -road potential Sorento is now hidden in one single key with the inscription Lock on the front panel. With its help, you can forcibly block the clutch of the rear -wheel drive, but as soon as the car accelerates to 40 km/h, the coupling will independently switch to automatic mode. The assistants are the disconnected stabilization system and an assistant descent from the mountain, which limits the speed on a slope of up to 8 km/h.


In addition to the mass of free space, passengers of the second row of seats can adjust the angle of inclination of the back and have their own blowing deflectors located in the central racks.

The basic cost of Kia Sorento is 959,900 rubles. For this money, Sorento is deprived of not only a leather salon and stabilization system, but even the backlighting of mirrors in sunscreen visors, rails and curtains in the trunk. A car that has been on the test is significantly more expensive than 1,619,900 rubles, but it was stuffed with a plot. Among the equipment of xenon headlights, a panoramic roof, LED rear lights, navigation system and a separate air conditioner for the third row. In addition, there are a lot of intermediate configurations that will allow you to choose the car as individually as possible.


Ruslan Galimov


 

Source: Carclub.ru