Test Drive Kia Sorento since 2009 SUV

How far to the city?

They look like: they are all crossovers, and we collected them together. All this is that how much in the middle class with great clearance.


It seems to us that the new Kia Sorento is not only a noticeable phenomenon in the market of medium-sized crossovers, but also a new word in this genre. In order to figure out what in the same segment, we compared it with two old-marked markets: popular Nissan X-Trail and Chevrolet Captiva.

Chevrolet Captiva.

Chevrolet on the move is perceived and more massive than its opponents, and more voluminous

Gasoline V6, 230 horses, Pointy Multi-Cylinder Snoring, Traditional Automatic and Many, Many, Many, Many Total: South Korea's generous hand is felt in the finish, and in the hodovka. Do not look for something in it, except: Chevrolet is popular and balanced. Not for everyone, but for everyone. He is not ideal, but he is indisputable. Do you want skin? It has skin. Do you want acceptable finishing quality? It is decent. Do you want space for passengers? His car! Want more passengers? Take more: the third row of seats for Captiva is not just a reality, but such a reality that can be used in practice.

There are visibility, and traditional ergonomics, and weight sensation: Chevrolet on the move perceived and more massive than its opponents, and more voluminous. Want a motor? Please, it is also a lot of it: Even more than the suspension that allows the machine and peck into response to the hard grab of its excellent brakes with an exact drive, and sit down in the package to a powerful engine, and worship turning, but, in general, withstands any active maneuvering.


Poor chassis copes only with single irregularities, especially at low speed: when driving railway crossings and such obstacles. If you are lucky to get into a series of pits with a period of internal resonance of the car, then the soft suspension to keep in obedience unsrespantous masses will also not be able.

And on a decent road, and on the rolled primer on Shevi, you can go and actively, and even quickly there would be a desire. May Captiva get out in a small dirt, and she is not so unbearably difficult for her, like, for example, KIA, but to avoid the feeling of artificiality of this situation Chevrolet can not. Yes, these bales of tolerant, but undesirable, and a large reversal radius will not add confidence on the forest trail: Captiva is the road crossover. All you buy in Chevrolet, decent level: without sharp corners and recorded features. Without a claim for advanced positions, but also without failures. Main trump cards with V6 power and capacity.


 
Kia Sorento.

Sorento is controlled on asphalt. This is a car for the city

Unich turns out! And they know that they have: they are increasingly entering the taste of creation. When you manage new Kia cars, you feel this pleasure from your own work as reliably, as you feel the taste of the sun in grapes, if the port has been poured into Portugal. Differential complexes of employees of the second grade of those who can only make the closure only in someone else's trail. The rules are unbearable inevitably because it is impossible to repeat other people's movements.

I don't want to say at all that KIA is somehow especially allocated in our comparison with its technique or design, but it stands out by its angle of attack during takeoff. She recently also just jumped into Echelon, and this is the main thing for today. Which create good cars, and trends, and fashion and ultimately determine what is good. The rest of particular, and they are as follows: Sorento in our comparison is the most modern, most fashionable and most pleasant interior.

Spacious on passenger places, excellent finish, beautiful dashboard, dear character of the triggering of successfully arranged knobs here thought not only about technology and price, but also about the driver and his pleasure driving. Sorento is controlled on asphalt. This is a car for the city, that's just the steering wheel in the parking modes should be easier. Diesel and automatic perfectly complement each other, and only at idle turns, the motor tangible vibrates, causing discomfort if long remaining without movement. Gas drive is very active at the beginning of the progress, and it creates a feeling of greater strength than in fact, however, but in fact, all 197 diesel horses work on conscience.

Sorento less than others is adapted to whale-road. To move from the asphalt, this car is contraindicated: the course of its suspension is small, and the crossover is postponed even in the most innocuous situations, and the transmission locking regimal is not at all. The suspension, formerly assembled and dense on the asphalt, forces practically stopping where the X-Trail, for example, is easily going through, and geometric obstruction will make it worked for a plastic body kit even where even Captiva crawled.

Diesel, great quality, excellent handling, rich equipment and modern functions, such as broadcasting images from the rear camera on the salon mirror (debut just a year ago on Lexus). Sorento The right choice for the metropolis.


 
Nissan X-Trail

Nissan is the most modest look, but it is the most universal and most passable

Simple and reliable as soldier's boot. Powerful of it (boot) Publication is a civilized, supplemented and improved for comfort and practicality in the city. They softened, they were softened there, and in the end, it is comfortable that the shtiblet, and does not clashes under the city, but it is still durable and will not fall apart, it is easy to run on puddles. Nissan in our company is easier than everyone. Its interior would be easy to nail to the board by some definition of the type of Spartan, primitive, poor one can, but it would be incorrectly saves the breed. Nissan the company is old, and nuh for SUVs they already have in DNA. In Nissan X-Trail, he refills a sense of measure: a small amount of modest, but high-quality and functional pieces.

On the off-road with his two-liter diesel engine, snatching as he can rheried only invoking diesel, he blooms. An impressive clearance and chopped forms are not all that the X-Trail offers to the one who likes SUVs: he really can even drive there, where it really can not worry on the front-wheel drive, even in the presence of brains. He has a great deal of business with geometry, and with the equipment of the transmission capabilities with the full blocking of the moment of the moment the moment of the moment should be quite enough for hunting, and for fisheries.

True, it is impossible to say that the place of place for passengers on the rear seats is closely. On a broken primer, you can steer, without raising your legs from the gas, and on the hillock it is cracked, without pretending to be in advance, how much is a new bumper. Energy intensity suspension and comfort on bad roads at a good level. However, the X-Trail is not sprawling on the asphalt. Yes, the rolls are more than others, yes, he pecks on braking and dies on acceleration, but does not frighten the frames of frame sacrifice and does not pay in its independent suspensions of the flaws of the coaching Kushka.

X-TRAIL The choice of pragmatists and those who appreciate primarily the utilitarian quality of the machine. Nissan is the most modest look, but it is the most universal, and the most passable.


 
Summary
We started this test not only to compare three different cars, but also to assess three different approaches and three different generations. Chevrolet Captiva (not to be confused with Opel Antara: This is not the same thing. Captiva is genuine and sometimes seventeen) one hundred percent crossover. The car of Korean origin of those times when these cars have already enjoyed the technological level of automotive America. He is simple and well-designed. Comfortable and fairly universal. Very checked. The main trump cards are roominess, comfort and equal fitness and for the city, and for the village. Nissan X-Trail A representative of an old school and its purpose is more narrow. He inherited from his framework corporate fellows a serious attitude towards the road to the damage to asphalt discipline. The way the way is worse, the Nissan is better. He can fly a move where Kia barely crawls in a whisper, and he will not do anything where she is losing half of the plastic from the bottom. And the better and faster asphalt road, the more Nissan leaves before speed and modern standards of controllability and stability. Kia Complete opposite. She literally stuffed with all new and fashionable, starting with the design and ending with the suspension. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe crossover in Kia is brought to completion: it's no secret that most SUVs and crossovers move only on asphalt, so why teach them to ride the mud, worsening asphalt behavior and raising the price. Crossovers have become less adapted to off-road, and now you can have a crossover, a little different from the passenger car. From the SUV, it remains only what was valuable for a resident of the metropolis: a high landing, a sense of security and the ability to not pay attention to the state of the road. But in Kia seven places, modern diesel, excellent handling, salon with a premium premium interior, and the latest options. You have the opportunity to choose: all the crossovers are different, and everyone on their audience.


 

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