PRICE : For 2014 Kia Sorento $24,100
The novel Sorento sports a to a greater extent than athletic facial expression than its predecessor due to restyled forepart as well as nurture fascias, a slightly wider opinion as well as attractive novel taillights, but the bigger tidings is an almost completely redesigned suspension. It provides safe, predictable treatment dynamics inward add-on to a ride that's soft but non floaty. The novel setup also includes several NVH-reducing measures that upshot inward a whisper-quiet interior.
The cabin has also been enhanced alongside additional soft-touch materials, a reworked musical instrument cluster as well as a novel centre stack alongside to a greater extent than premium-looking controls. An available eight-inch touchscreen controls navigation as well as amusement functions inward add-on to Kia's UVO eServices infotainment system.
UVO provides Bluetooth-based smartphone integration, streaming good as well as vocalisation command functionality for everything from placing calls to changing radio stations. It also includes vehicle diagnostics information as well as maintenance reminders, as well as lets users mail directions or Point of Interest information from Google Maps searches on their smartphone to the Sorento's nav system, which itself offers access to Google Maps as well as Google Places.
For to a greater extent than data on UVO eServices, see our Spotlight On: Kia UVO eServices in-depth article.
The Sorento has ample room for v passengers inward the get-go ii rows seats, but the optional tertiary row is best left to minor children. With the tertiary row inward place, precisely nine cubic feet of cargo infinite is available - carrying vii passengers as well as a salubrious amount of cargo isn't an option. However, flexure downwards the tertiary row as well as there's an impressive 37 cubic feet available, as well as a total 72 cues tin live had past times tucking away the 2d row.
EXTERIOR
The get-go affair you’ll notice nigh the 2014 Sorento is that it looks smaller than its predecessors. Don’t larn us wrong, every bit a crossover, nosotros didn’t await a hulking SUV, but a instance tin live made that the novel Sorento seems to conduct hold been designed alongside an oculus towards giving it a sportier as well as to a greater extent than dynamic look. It for certain doesn’t wound that Kia’s offering iii colors for the crossover — Ebony Black, Snow White Pearl as well as Titanium Silver — although nosotros for certain wouldn’t heed seeing it inward other shades, too.
The forepart as well as nurture fascias conduct hold been redesigned to get upwards the facial expression of the car. The tiger-nose grille, inward particular, was a large alongside its novel anodized silver-metal or black-mesh appearance. Even the forepart LED positioning lamps conduct hold been modified, creating dynamic eyebrows. It’s a setup that’s both oculus catching as well as functional, underscoring the entire purpose of the 2014 Sorento every bit a refreshed model.
Wheel options for the Sorento vary from redesigned 17- as well as 18-inch models all the agency upwards to 19-inch wheels, making this the get-go Sorento e'er to conduct hold 19-inchs rims. Technology was also a critical chemical component to the overall setup of the novel Sorento. No to a greater extent than was that evident than Kia using advanced sonar sensors, as well as making the 2014 Sorento the get-go of many Kia vehicles to start out offering a blind-spot detection system.
Finally, every bit the top-of-the-line model, the SX Limited comes alongside its ain laid of novel features, including the add-on of self-leveling Xenon HID caput lights, exclusive 19-inch chrome wheels, sporty red-painted brake calipers, as well as exclusive SXL badges that conduct hold been plastered precisely about the outside to consummate the look.
What Kia did alongside its novel crossover precisely goes to present the lengths it’s gone to plow their entire model hit around, the Sorento included.
INTERIOR
Like the residual of the novel models from Kia, the 2014 Sorento was treated to a plush interior makeover. It’s a refreshing take, especially when yous consider that the marketplace it belongs to pays less attending on beingness pretty than anything else. To its credit, Kia wanted to give the Sorento some novel shine as well as did as well as so past times dressing it upwards alongside unique as well as luxurious Nappa leather trimmed seats. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wood-trimmed, heated steering bike is also portion of the improved interior makeup of the Sorento every bit are the heated nurture seats, both of which come upwards every bit criterion features to the crossover. In addition, Kia also added an exclusive soft-touch headliner as well as pillar accents to the Sorento SX Limited.
For all of the aesthetic improvements on the Sorento, Kia also paid careful attending to giving the crossover plenty of functionality, highlighted past times a redesigned musical instrument panel that combines engineering alongside proven ergonomics. On the Sorrento EX as well as above, the crossover’s large centre gauge cluster comes alongside a 7-inch TFT LCD shroud that projects plenty of go data for the convenience of the driver as well as the passengers. It displays information similar trip as well as vehicle information, along alongside navigation updates alongside the latter coming every bit an added option.
The Sorento’s centre stack — a portion of the interior that commonly gets ignored — was modernized to supply a cleaner facial expression to the clit positions, hence creating a to a greater extent than user-friendly
experience.
This blueprint was also done inward large portion to supply room for the Sorento’s larger, albeit optional, touchscreen. This shroud tin live used to integrate a host of features on the Kia crossover, including navigation, SiriusXM Traffic alongside real-time route data updates, a premium Infinity good system, SiruisXM Satellite Radio, Bluetooth hands-free connectivity, vehicle settings as well as UVO eServices, the automaker’s following generation of infotainment as well as telematics.
Rounding out the available interior features inward the 2014 Sorento include a programmable mightiness liftgate, a redesigned panoramic sunroof alongside a 1 slice power-operated shade, integrated 2nd row sliding sunshades, dual ventilated air-cooled forepart seats, a 115-volt mightiness inverter, as well as illuminated door grip pockets...SEE ALL PHOTOS
SPECIFICATION
► Year : 2014
► Make : Kia
► Model : Sorento
► Engine : GDI Four-cylinder
► Transmission : Six-speed automatic transmission
► Horsepower @ RPM : 191
► Torque @ RPM : 180
► Displacement : 2.4 L
► Substantial blueprint as well as applied scientific discipline updates
► New criterion as well as optional engines
► Available Flex Steer electrical steering
► Optional Torque On Demand all-wheel drive (AWD)
► Torque Vectoring Cornering Control alongside AWD
► Available UVO eServices technology
► Available blind-spot monitoring
► New comfort as well as convenience options
► New SX Limited (SX-L) cut back story tops the lineup
Most drivers volition let out that the 2014 Kia Sorento feels a chip underpowered alongside the base of operations four-cylinder engine. Considering its negligible fuel economic scheme advantage, the V6 engine is good worth the upgrade if your budget allows. On the road, the Sorento is exceptionally serenity alongside a scarcity of route noise. We also similar the agency it rides, every bit the suspension soaks upwards bumps alongside ease. Around turns, the Sorento's treatment as well as steering are far from sporty, but most drivers should let out it sure-footed plenty for a draw solid unit of measurement vehicle.
When navigating the confines of a parking spot, the large Kia feels smaller than it actually is as well as inward full general it's quite a chip to a greater extent than maneuverable than larger seven-passenger SUVs. Poor rearward visibility tin brand the chore of backing into a tight infinite seem daunting, but the available rearview photographic idiot box camera as well as parking sensors assist out here. All told, the 2014 Kia Sorento should live a skillful fit for a broad swath of SUV buyers.
The 2014 Kia Sorento comes inward iii versions: LX, EX, as well as SX. Standard on all versions are conveniences similar mightiness locks, windows, as well as mirrors; air conditioning; cruise control; 17-inch wheels; an AM/FM/XM/CD player; auxiliary as well as USB ports; Bluetooth; tilt/telescoping steering; as well as steering-wheel good controls. All-wheel drive as well as a fold-away third-row spot are options on every model.
Major options on the LX four-cylinder edition include automatic climate control; a rearview photographic idiot box camera bundled alongside the novel version of Kia's UVO infotainment system. In this edition, UVO drops its Microsoft underpinnings as well as adopts a simpler smartphone-driven setup that tin offering Google mapping as well as helpful functions similar service scheduling as well as a parking-lot finder, all complimentary of charge. Infinity audio, pushbutton start, a mightiness tailgate, as well as blind-spot monitors as well as contrary parking sensors are also available.
The Sorento EX adds the V-6 engine every bit criterion equipment; it also gets a large 7-inch LCD shroud betwixt the gauges for secondary display of navigation; 18-inch wheels; fog lamps; a leather-wrapped steering wheel; a 115-volt mightiness outlet; as well as a mightiness driver spot as well as heating for both forepart seats. Options include a panoramic sunroof, a mightiness rider seat, as well as ventilation for both forepart seats.
The Sorento SX gets 19-inch wheels; panoramic sunroof; roof rails; navigation; an Infinity good system; ventilated forepart seats; as well as a mightiness tailgate standard.
The SX Limited tops off the lineup alongside 19-inch chrome wheels, red-painted brake calipers, as well as inside, Nappa leather seats, a wood-trimmed as well as heated steering wheel, as well as heated nurture seats every bit criterion equipment....SEE ALL PHOTOS
The Sorento also offers an Eco mode, ostensibly to improve mileage. However, I could non discern much of a divergence inward throttle answer when the dark-green Eco icon was lit upwards inward the musical instrument cluster.
Kia's 3.3-liter V-6 demonstrates the efficiency of forthwith injection technology. Producing 290 horsepower as well as 252 pound-feet of torque, it has higher output than many port injection 3.5-liter V-6 engines on the market. And alongside the half dozen speed automatic transmission, the Sorento earns EPA fuel economic scheme estimates of xviii mpg metropolis as well as 25 mpg highway. Monitoring the trip reckoner average, I works life the vehicle stayed good within that range. My terminal average, subsequently a mix of highway as well as metropolis driving, came inward at an impressive 22.8 mpg.
And piece the transmission could live deadening to kicking downwards when I jumped on the gas, the engine responded alongside a really satisfying growl. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fiddling likewise much throttle on loma starts made the forepart wheels spin for a 2d earlier letting the Sorento accept off, as well as when I needed to top other cars, that engine gave the Sorento the necessary pull.
I actually similar this engine, as well as it works perfectly for Kia's larger cars.
The Sorento uses a fixed suspension, offering no modes to jibe the steering tuning. But I works life it reasonably comfortable when driving over a multifariousness of roads, competently treatment the bumps. I noticed over 1 stone oil department a recurring bass thump inward the cabin, which I verified was non coming from the speakers. But the suspension handled the associated route bumps alongside appropriate damping.
The suspension kept the Sorento reasonably stable inward the turns, but understeer kept me from pushing the auto likewise fast.
To entice buyers, Kia adds engineering upgrades to the 2014 Sorento. Electric steering is criterion this year, offering driver-controlled Flex Steer settings of Comfort, Normal as well as Sport. Most models are equipped alongside a novel 7-inch LCD data shroud inward the gauge cluster as well as a larger 8-in color touchscreen for the centre command panel, piece Sorento AWD models characteristic novel Torque Vectoring Cornering Control (TVCC) technology.
New options include a next-generation UVO infotainment arrangement alongside eServices technology, a novel Blind Spot Monitoring System, a novel programmable mightiness nurture elevator gate, a 115-volt mightiness inverter as well as ventilated forepart seats. The luxury-themed Sorento SXL model is equipped alongside self-leveling Xenon headlights, a heated steering bike as well as a heated nurture seat, amid other features.
While nosotros intend the most pregnant of these novel features are the Blind Spot Monitoring System as well as novel UVO eServices technology, there's no denying that the novel 2014 Sorento is a to a greater extent than technologically sophisticated vehicle than the SUV it replaces.
At 184.4 inches long, riding on a wheelbase of 106.3 inches, the Kia Sorento has plenty of room for v passengers inward its criterion configuration. Two to a greater extent than volition fit inward its available third-row seat, but they'll quest to live small.
The Sorento has gone through a discreet transformation for 2014. It doesn't facial expression really different, but Kia says it's lxxx per centum new, alongside minor increases inward leg room for second- as well as third-row passengers every bit a upshot of the changes. The interior room isn't really obvious at all inward the forepart seats, where Kia already provided a skillful driving spot as well as rider space. The seats conduct hold skillful bolstering as well as broad cushions, alongside skillful adjustment hit to the steering column. The redesigned centre stack leaves genu room untouched--no difficult points brand contact--and the footwells are generally flat. Moving through the higher cut back grades adds mightiness adjustment, heating, as well as ventilation, touches becoming to a greater extent than mutual inward premium SUVs but soundless pretty rare inward mainstream crossovers similar the Sorento.
In the 2d row, we've works life infinite precisely every bit habitable, though the Sorento doesn't conduct hold the twin captain's-chairs layout of the similar Hyundai Santa Fe. The bench spot does adjust to flex leg room betwixt the 2d as well as tertiary rows, as well as past times Kia's reckoning, there's to a greater extent than than an inch of additional leg room behind the forepart seats--we think, primarily, from redesigned seats. The second-row bench is separate 40/20/40 as well as the outboard sections recline, for non bad nap potential, as well as heating is an option, some other welcome premium touch.
In the optional third-row seat, it's purely a kid zone. The Sorento may live a three-row crossover, but past times interior book it's smaller past times a skillful margin than the bigger three-row utes--the Pilot, the Ford Flex, as well as the Chevy Traverse. The rearmost spot has minimal caput as well as leg room for fifty-fifty minor adults, as well as there's less than 10 cubic feet of infinite behind it for cargo--a spec that rises to nigh 36 cubic feet when the tertiary row is folded down.
A thorough rework of the cabin delivers a much amend impression of lineament within the Sorento, as well as that impression extends to dissonance levels, too. The materials are a finer grade, especially on the pricey SX-L, as well as powertrain noises are subdued on V-6 versions, alongside precisely some tire dissonance keeping the back-seat passengers from hearing front-seat conversations clearly...SEE ALL PHOTOS
Solid but mild performance has been a hallmark of the Kia Sorento since it was novel inward 2011, as well as a pretty stiff ride has been 1 of its to a greater extent than obvious shortfalls. This year, the suspension's been redesigned as well as the powertrains conduct hold been revamped--and every bit a result, the Sorento's ride is to a greater extent than mellow, as well as its V-6 nets nearly 300 horsepower.
The direct-injection four-cylinder is soundless the base of operations engine on the Sorento, however. As rare every bit it's probable to be, it's worth a look, given our past times experience alongside it. The carryover four-cylinder has 191 hp as well as 181 pound-feet of torque, both lean figures for a vehicle weighing inward at to a greater extent than than 3600 pounds. Coupled to the criterion six-speed automatic, the four-cylinder is offered alongside front- or all-wheel drive, as well as hangs on to its slight payoff inward cost as well as gas mileage though it's unlikely to pause the 10-second 0-60 mph score alongside whatever to a greater extent than than 1 rider on board.
The near-mandatory engine inward the Sorento is the uprated 3.3-liter V-6 shared alongside the long-wheelbase Hyundai Santa Fe, as well as spec'ed out this yr at 290 horsepower as well as 252 lb-ft of torque. This powertrain isn't precisely to a greater extent than powerful, it's to a greater extent than practical given its flexibility alongside a fully loaded vehicle, as well as fuel economic scheme non far off the four-cylinder's score (21 mpg versus 22 mpg combined for front-drive models, for example).
The V-6 works smoothly as well as efficiently alongside the six-speed automatic; though there's a sport-shift agency hanging off the shift lever, it's non really probable whatever Sorento driver volition engage athlete mode, especially alongside half dozen other passengers on board.
Kia's all-wheel-drive arrangement is an on-demand arrangement that tin mail torque from the forepart to the dorsum wheels every bit the fronts slip, as well as a locking differential fixes the separate evenly for tackling the worst weather--not that you'll live going deeply off-road inward it. There's also a mistaken torque-vectoring application for the anti-lock brakes that clamps downwards on an within bike to assist tighten the Sorento's draw through corners.
You'll give that some thought, given that the Sorento connects alongside the route inward a to a greater extent than positive agency than it did precisely lastly year. This year's Sorento gets amend treatment from a stiffer torso structure, through variable-effort electrical mightiness steering (on SX models), as well as from additional bracing as well as to a greater extent than isolation inward the suspension design. All versions conduct hold a detectable improvement inward ride quality--no to a greater extent than pounding or thumping harshly over smaller route bumps, though novel 19-inch wheels cutting into that gain--and the SX versions alongside three-mode steering experience to a greater extent than engaging precisely from the presence of weight inward Sport mode. We'd go out it inward normal or comfort most of the time, but sometimes fifty-fifty a token gesture is a welcome one.
The 2014 Sorento is offered alongside a novel Blind Spot Monitoring System, a useful engineering that, when the plow signal is used to modify lanes, alerts the Sorento's driver to the presence of vehicles traveling inward side past times side lanes as well as hidden inward the SUV's blind spots. An all-new chassis also debuts on the 2014 Sorento, providing an xviii per centum increment inward torsional rigidity. The stronger frame is designed to improve ride as well as handling, but could conduct hold security implications every bit well.
We country the novel chassis could conduct hold security implications because, at the fourth dimension this article was written, neither the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) nor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has performed crash tests on the 2014 Sorento. Previously, the 2011-2013 Sorento models received a Top Safety Pick rating from the IIHS. In NHTSA testing, the 2011 Sorento received a 3-star rating for nurture spot rider protection inward a side-impact collision, but scored either 4 or 5 stars inward all other evaluations. In 2012 as well as 2013, the Sorento was upgraded from 3 stars to 5 stars for nurture spot rider protection inward a side-impact collision.
Though the 2014 Sorento has non been subjected to crash tests at the fourth dimension this article was published, it is probable to show to live precisely every bit rubber every bit the previous model, thank yous to its stiffer platform as well as the availability of a Blind Spot Monitoring System, which is a pregnant improvement over the former model. Likely advantage: 2014 Sorento. However, it remains to live seen if the chassis upgrades assist the 2014 Sorento top the novel minor overlap frontal-impact crash assay out conducted past times the IIHS, which volition allow Kia to retain the Sorento's Top Safety Pick rating.
The Kia Sorento delivers amend gas mileage for 2014 than it did inward the get-go one-half of its life cycle, alongside six-cylinder versions faring every bit good every bit other three-row crossovers.
The front-wheel-drive Sorento is rated at xx miles per gallon on the EPA's metropolis cycle, 26 miles per gallon highway, or 22 mpg combined when fitted alongside the four-cylinder engine as well as automatic transmission. The numbers drib to 18/25 mpg, or 21 mpg combined inward the six-cylinder Sorento alongside the automatic transmission.
The all-wheel-drive Sorento is rated past times the EPA at 19/24 mpg, or 21 mpg combined every bit a four-cylinder, as well as 18/24 mpg, or xx mpg combined, every bit a six-cylinder.
Compared to vehicles similar the Toyota Highlander or the novel Nissan Pathfinder, the Sorento's combined figures are inward line, when it's outfitted alongside the six-cylinder engine. As a four-cylinder five-seater, the Sorento's only pitted against to a greater extent than efficient as well as sometimes smaller-displacement offerings. Ford's Edge, for example, offers a turbocharged four-cylinder rated at upwards to 28 mpg highway; the Toyota Venza isn't far off that mark.
WHAT’S NEW
► New criterion as well as optional engines
► Available Flex Steer electrical steering
► Optional Torque On Demand all-wheel drive (AWD)
► Torque Vectoring Cornering Control alongside AWD
► Available UVO eServices technology
► Available blind-spot monitoring
► New comfort as well as convenience options
► New SX Limited (SX-L) cut back story tops the lineup
DRIVETRAIN
When navigating the confines of a parking spot, the large Kia feels smaller than it actually is as well as inward full general it's quite a chip to a greater extent than maneuverable than larger seven-passenger SUVs. Poor rearward visibility tin brand the chore of backing into a tight infinite seem daunting, but the available rearview photographic idiot box camera as well as parking sensors assist out here. All told, the 2014 Kia Sorento should live a skillful fit for a broad swath of SUV buyers.
FEATURES
Major options on the LX four-cylinder edition include automatic climate control; a rearview photographic idiot box camera bundled alongside the novel version of Kia's UVO infotainment system. In this edition, UVO drops its Microsoft underpinnings as well as adopts a simpler smartphone-driven setup that tin offering Google mapping as well as helpful functions similar service scheduling as well as a parking-lot finder, all complimentary of charge. Infinity audio, pushbutton start, a mightiness tailgate, as well as blind-spot monitors as well as contrary parking sensors are also available.
The Sorento EX adds the V-6 engine every bit criterion equipment; it also gets a large 7-inch LCD shroud betwixt the gauges for secondary display of navigation; 18-inch wheels; fog lamps; a leather-wrapped steering wheel; a 115-volt mightiness outlet; as well as a mightiness driver spot as well as heating for both forepart seats. Options include a panoramic sunroof, a mightiness rider seat, as well as ventilation for both forepart seats.
The Sorento SX gets 19-inch wheels; panoramic sunroof; roof rails; navigation; an Infinity good system; ventilated forepart seats; as well as a mightiness tailgate standard.
The SX Limited tops off the lineup alongside 19-inch chrome wheels, red-painted brake calipers, as well as inside, Nappa leather seats, a wood-trimmed as well as heated steering wheel, as well as heated nurture seats every bit criterion equipment....SEE ALL PHOTOS
ENGINE
Kia's 3.3-liter V-6 demonstrates the efficiency of forthwith injection technology. Producing 290 horsepower as well as 252 pound-feet of torque, it has higher output than many port injection 3.5-liter V-6 engines on the market. And alongside the half dozen speed automatic transmission, the Sorento earns EPA fuel economic scheme estimates of xviii mpg metropolis as well as 25 mpg highway. Monitoring the trip reckoner average, I works life the vehicle stayed good within that range. My terminal average, subsequently a mix of highway as well as metropolis driving, came inward at an impressive 22.8 mpg.
And piece the transmission could live deadening to kicking downwards when I jumped on the gas, the engine responded alongside a really satisfying growl. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fiddling likewise much throttle on loma starts made the forepart wheels spin for a 2d earlier letting the Sorento accept off, as well as when I needed to top other cars, that engine gave the Sorento the necessary pull.
I actually similar this engine, as well as it works perfectly for Kia's larger cars.
The Sorento uses a fixed suspension, offering no modes to jibe the steering tuning. But I works life it reasonably comfortable when driving over a multifariousness of roads, competently treatment the bumps. I noticed over 1 stone oil department a recurring bass thump inward the cabin, which I verified was non coming from the speakers. But the suspension handled the associated route bumps alongside appropriate damping.
The suspension kept the Sorento reasonably stable inward the turns, but understeer kept me from pushing the auto likewise fast.
TECHNOLOGY
New options include a next-generation UVO infotainment arrangement alongside eServices technology, a novel Blind Spot Monitoring System, a novel programmable mightiness nurture elevator gate, a 115-volt mightiness inverter as well as ventilated forepart seats. The luxury-themed Sorento SXL model is equipped alongside self-leveling Xenon headlights, a heated steering bike as well as a heated nurture seat, amid other features.
While nosotros intend the most pregnant of these novel features are the Blind Spot Monitoring System as well as novel UVO eServices technology, there's no denying that the novel 2014 Sorento is a to a greater extent than technologically sophisticated vehicle than the SUV it replaces.
COMFORT & QUALITY
The Sorento has gone through a discreet transformation for 2014. It doesn't facial expression really different, but Kia says it's lxxx per centum new, alongside minor increases inward leg room for second- as well as third-row passengers every bit a upshot of the changes. The interior room isn't really obvious at all inward the forepart seats, where Kia already provided a skillful driving spot as well as rider space. The seats conduct hold skillful bolstering as well as broad cushions, alongside skillful adjustment hit to the steering column. The redesigned centre stack leaves genu room untouched--no difficult points brand contact--and the footwells are generally flat. Moving through the higher cut back grades adds mightiness adjustment, heating, as well as ventilation, touches becoming to a greater extent than mutual inward premium SUVs but soundless pretty rare inward mainstream crossovers similar the Sorento.
In the 2d row, we've works life infinite precisely every bit habitable, though the Sorento doesn't conduct hold the twin captain's-chairs layout of the similar Hyundai Santa Fe. The bench spot does adjust to flex leg room betwixt the 2d as well as tertiary rows, as well as past times Kia's reckoning, there's to a greater extent than than an inch of additional leg room behind the forepart seats--we think, primarily, from redesigned seats. The second-row bench is separate 40/20/40 as well as the outboard sections recline, for non bad nap potential, as well as heating is an option, some other welcome premium touch.
In the optional third-row seat, it's purely a kid zone. The Sorento may live a three-row crossover, but past times interior book it's smaller past times a skillful margin than the bigger three-row utes--the Pilot, the Ford Flex, as well as the Chevy Traverse. The rearmost spot has minimal caput as well as leg room for fifty-fifty minor adults, as well as there's less than 10 cubic feet of infinite behind it for cargo--a spec that rises to nigh 36 cubic feet when the tertiary row is folded down.
A thorough rework of the cabin delivers a much amend impression of lineament within the Sorento, as well as that impression extends to dissonance levels, too. The materials are a finer grade, especially on the pricey SX-L, as well as powertrain noises are subdued on V-6 versions, alongside precisely some tire dissonance keeping the back-seat passengers from hearing front-seat conversations clearly...SEE ALL PHOTOS
PERFORMANCE
The direct-injection four-cylinder is soundless the base of operations engine on the Sorento, however. As rare every bit it's probable to be, it's worth a look, given our past times experience alongside it. The carryover four-cylinder has 191 hp as well as 181 pound-feet of torque, both lean figures for a vehicle weighing inward at to a greater extent than than 3600 pounds. Coupled to the criterion six-speed automatic, the four-cylinder is offered alongside front- or all-wheel drive, as well as hangs on to its slight payoff inward cost as well as gas mileage though it's unlikely to pause the 10-second 0-60 mph score alongside whatever to a greater extent than than 1 rider on board.
The near-mandatory engine inward the Sorento is the uprated 3.3-liter V-6 shared alongside the long-wheelbase Hyundai Santa Fe, as well as spec'ed out this yr at 290 horsepower as well as 252 lb-ft of torque. This powertrain isn't precisely to a greater extent than powerful, it's to a greater extent than practical given its flexibility alongside a fully loaded vehicle, as well as fuel economic scheme non far off the four-cylinder's score (21 mpg versus 22 mpg combined for front-drive models, for example).
The V-6 works smoothly as well as efficiently alongside the six-speed automatic; though there's a sport-shift agency hanging off the shift lever, it's non really probable whatever Sorento driver volition engage athlete mode, especially alongside half dozen other passengers on board.
Kia's all-wheel-drive arrangement is an on-demand arrangement that tin mail torque from the forepart to the dorsum wheels every bit the fronts slip, as well as a locking differential fixes the separate evenly for tackling the worst weather--not that you'll live going deeply off-road inward it. There's also a mistaken torque-vectoring application for the anti-lock brakes that clamps downwards on an within bike to assist tighten the Sorento's draw through corners.
You'll give that some thought, given that the Sorento connects alongside the route inward a to a greater extent than positive agency than it did precisely lastly year. This year's Sorento gets amend treatment from a stiffer torso structure, through variable-effort electrical mightiness steering (on SX models), as well as from additional bracing as well as to a greater extent than isolation inward the suspension design. All versions conduct hold a detectable improvement inward ride quality--no to a greater extent than pounding or thumping harshly over smaller route bumps, though novel 19-inch wheels cutting into that gain--and the SX versions alongside three-mode steering experience to a greater extent than engaging precisely from the presence of weight inward Sport mode. We'd go out it inward normal or comfort most of the time, but sometimes fifty-fifty a token gesture is a welcome one.
SAFETY
We country the novel chassis could conduct hold security implications because, at the fourth dimension this article was written, neither the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) nor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has performed crash tests on the 2014 Sorento. Previously, the 2011-2013 Sorento models received a Top Safety Pick rating from the IIHS. In NHTSA testing, the 2011 Sorento received a 3-star rating for nurture spot rider protection inward a side-impact collision, but scored either 4 or 5 stars inward all other evaluations. In 2012 as well as 2013, the Sorento was upgraded from 3 stars to 5 stars for nurture spot rider protection inward a side-impact collision.
Though the 2014 Sorento has non been subjected to crash tests at the fourth dimension this article was published, it is probable to show to live precisely every bit rubber every bit the previous model, thank yous to its stiffer platform as well as the availability of a Blind Spot Monitoring System, which is a pregnant improvement over the former model. Likely advantage: 2014 Sorento. However, it remains to live seen if the chassis upgrades assist the 2014 Sorento top the novel minor overlap frontal-impact crash assay out conducted past times the IIHS, which volition allow Kia to retain the Sorento's Top Safety Pick rating.
FUEL ECONOMY
The front-wheel-drive Sorento is rated at xx miles per gallon on the EPA's metropolis cycle, 26 miles per gallon highway, or 22 mpg combined when fitted alongside the four-cylinder engine as well as automatic transmission. The numbers drib to 18/25 mpg, or 21 mpg combined inward the six-cylinder Sorento alongside the automatic transmission.
The all-wheel-drive Sorento is rated past times the EPA at 19/24 mpg, or 21 mpg combined every bit a four-cylinder, as well as 18/24 mpg, or xx mpg combined, every bit a six-cylinder.
Compared to vehicles similar the Toyota Highlander or the novel Nissan Pathfinder, the Sorento's combined figures are inward line, when it's outfitted alongside the six-cylinder engine. As a four-cylinder five-seater, the Sorento's only pitted against to a greater extent than efficient as well as sometimes smaller-displacement offerings. Ford's Edge, for example, offers a turbocharged four-cylinder rated at upwards to 28 mpg highway; the Toyota Venza isn't far off that mark.
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