Kia Sorento III (2015)

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Muito agradável este sorento

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Qual a motorização?

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Qual a motorização?

Aqui tens:

Five engines are available with the new Sorento*, depending on country, offering power outputs ranging from 172 to 270 ps. These include a 2.4-litre gasoline direct injection (GDI) unit, 2.4-litre and 3.3-litre multi-point injection (MPI) engines, and revised 2.0-litre and 2.2-litre ‘R’ turbo-diesel units. Of these, only the 2.2-litre turbo-diesel and 2.4-litre GDI engines will be sold in Europe, with the diesel unit expected to account for the majority of sales.

Fonte: KIA

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Nota de imprensa: KIA Sorento

Third-generation Kia Sorento set for overseas premiere

• Sophisticated new design for third-generation Kia Sorento CUV
  
• All-new bodyshell improves ride, handling and crash safety
  
• Improvements to NVH and a step-change in interior quality and design
  
• Range of five improved gasoline and diesel engines*
  
• European premiere scheduled for 2 October at Paris Motor Show

Frankfurt, 29 August 2014 – The all-new Kia Sorento has been unveiled in Korea today with a unique blend of style, practicality and technology, which builds on the success of the outgoing model. The new CUV’s smoother, swept-back profile and deeply sculpted surfaces introduce a higher level of sophistication for the third-generation model, delivering a premium look and feel, with more space and numerous innovative features.


The designers of the third generation Kia Sorento named their inspiration for the new car as ‘Streetwolf’. Although the styling changes are evolutionary, they subtly alter the character of the new Sorento, highlighting its sleek, sinuous, profile, while creating a sophisticated appearance and ensuring the new model has a bolder on-the-road presence.

The front of the new Sorento incorporates long, wrap-around headlamps and more prominent fog-lamps, as well as a larger, more upright ‘tiger-nose’ grille, with a distinctive three-dimensional diamond pattern, first featured on the 2013 Kia Cross GT concept.

In profile, the new model retains the Sorento’s hallmark long bonnet and characteristic wide D-pillar, but a lower roofline, higher beltline and swept-back shape give the car a more dramatic, muscular stance.

The rear of the car features more prominent ‘shoulders’ and a highly sculpted registration plate surround. The latter is made possible by the introduction of new laser welding manufacturing techniques – a first for a Kia model – which renders weld lines invisible, meaning the Sorento can do without the traditional (joint-masking) garnish on the tailgate.

The sleeker look of the new Sorento is enhanced by its increased length (+95 mm to 4,780 mm)**, reduced height (down 15 mm to 1,685 mm) and extra width (+5 mm to 1,890 mm).

The exterior styling of the new car was led by Kia’s Namyang design studio in Korea, with significant input from the brand’s Frankfurt, Germany and Irvine, California design studios.

‘Modern and wide’ theme for interior styling
Inside the all-new Sorento is where some of the most significant improvements are to be found. Interior styling was led by the brand’s European design team, based in Frankfurt, and Kia’s designers have created a more sophisticated, more luxurious cabin, featuring significantly higher quality materials.

The styling of the cabin follows a ‘modern and wide’ theme, providing the interior with a stable, horizontal layout and appearance. This width is echoed in the wider instrument cluster, interior garnish and the wrap-around shape of the dashboard which extends into the door trims. A higher proportion of soft-touch materials and leather creates a modern luxury feel to the cabin and gives the new Sorento a genuine premium vehicle ambience.

One of the most distinctive interior styling features is the Swiss watch-inspired user interface, which incorporates Kia’s latest HMI (human-machine interface) technologies, surrounded by new silver-look border.

The flowing contours of the dashboard were inspired by the ‘flexible volume of the human body’, rising to incorporate the driver’s instrument binnacle. The smoothly-styled design curve in the doors, which leads from the audio speakers up to the SUV-style grab handles, also endows the cabin with a more luxurious, sophisticated appearance.

For Europe and general markets***, customers will be able to specify the interior in either single-tone (Saturn Black) or two-tone (Saturn Black and Stone) colour schemes with cloth or leather trim. Additionally, brown or light gray colour schemes in leather trim will be offered as an option.

Comfort, convenience and new technologies
Compared to the previous-generation model, the increased exterior dimensions and the extended wheelbase (+80 mm to 2,780 mm) have liberated additional space in the cabin of the new car.

Although the roofline is 15 mm lower, repositioned seat cushions ensure increased headroom for occupants in all three rows, who will also enjoy greater legroom. Cargo space also increases, with a longer cargo bay floor (up by 87 mm), and capacity with the third row seats folded flat up 17.5 percent, from 515 to 605 litres (VDA). The new Sorento also features a new under-floor tonneau cover storage compartment.

Available in 5- or 7-seat versions, the new Sorento features 40/20/40 second row split folding for improved versatility, with a higher folding centre armrest. The second row seats of the 7-seat version are equipped with ‘remote folding’ controlled by two levers in the side of the cargo bay.

The new Sorento debuts a number of new, advanced on-board technologies to improve convenience and further enhance the ownership experience. Depending on market, new available features will include: an Around-View Monitor, with four cameras helping the driver to manoeuvre when parking, and a Smart Power Tailgate. This system opens the tailgate automatically when the key is ‘sensed’ in close proximity to the trunk, so owners can slide their shopping bags or heavy objects straight into the vehicle.

Enhanced refinement
Throughout the development of the new Sorento, Kia engineers also focused on strengthening the bodyshell structure and improving NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) characteristics to increase refinement and create a tranquil travelling environment that is as sophisticated as the new model’s styling.

The increased torsional rigidity of the new bodyshell (up by 14 percent compared to the outgoing model) provides an excellent foundation for both enhanced refinement and improved safety.

NVH-reducing measures adopted for the new Sorento include new soundproofing material for the transmission tunnel, a 29 percent thicker dashboard soundproofing panel (increased from 0.7 mm to 0.9 mm), larger engine and transmission mounts for greater powertrain refinement and, for diesel models, a new DPF cover and an acoustic shield integrated into the engine’s timing chain cover. Cabin noise is reduced by 3-to-6 percent, depending on driving conditions.

Improved powertrains, ride and handling
To match consumers’ rising expectations, Kia engineers worked to improve every aspect of the new Sorento’s driving experience, creating upgrades for the engines, steering and suspension.

Five engines are available with the new Sorento*, depending on country, offering power outputs ranging from 172 to 270 ps. These include a 2.4-litre gasoline direct injection (GDI) unit, 2.4-litre and 3.3-litre multi-point injection (MPI) engines, and revised 2.0-litre and 2.2-litre ‘R’ turbo-diesel units. Of these, only the 2.2-litre turbo-diesel and 2.4-litre GDI engines will be sold in Europe, with the diesel unit expected to account for the majority of sales.

When developing the new Sorento, a key focus for the Kia chassis engineering team was achieving improvements in ride comfort, high-speed stability and handling response to match the leaps forward in interior quality and NVH.

The fully-independent suspension retains the format of the outgoing model (MacPherson struts at the front and Kia’s multi-link system at the rear), but features a range of modifications. At the rear, the subframe supporting the suspension has larger bushings to better isolate it from the cabin and the larger shock absorbers are now mounted vertically behind the axle line, improving body control motion.

These changes, together with the longer wheelbase, deliver a more compliant ride, with a more progressive response to bumps in the road, making the new Sorento a very comfortable place in which to spend time on longer journeys.

At the front, an all-new electric motor-driven power steering system (R-MDPS), available as either standard or optional equipment depending on country, is mounted directly onto the steering rack – rather than the steering column as on the outgoing model. This provides greater steering feel and quicker response, ensuring that new Sorento will be among the more agile and sporty vehicles in its segment, without sacrificing the ride quality that customers expect from a luxurious SUV.

Better passive and active safety
The structure of the new Sorento is significantly stronger, thanks in large part to the more widespread use of ultra-high tensile steel. The previous-generation model was made up of 24.4 percent ultra-high tensile steel (UHTS), while the bodyshell of the new model consists of 52.7 percent UHTS, aiding the integrity of the car’s core structure in the event of an impact and also improving torsional rigidity. The stronger steel has been used to reinforce the wheel arches, tailgate surround and rear-wheel surround.

The new Sorento also features more than twice as much ultra-strong hot-stamped steel as the outgoing model, up from 4.1 percent to 10.1 percent in the new model, greatly strengthening the A- and B-pillars.

Buyers of the new Sorento will be able to choose from a wealth of ‘active’ safety technologies – depending on market. Available systems will include: ASCC (Adaptive Smart Cruise Control); LDWS (Lane Departure Warning System), which emits an audible alert when the driver strays from the chosen lane without using indicators; FCW (Front Collision Warning); BSD (Blind-Spot Detection); LCA (Lane Change Assist); RCTA (Rear Cross-Traffic Alert), which warns against other cars driving behind the Sorento in car parks; and SLIF (Speed Limit Information Function), which displays the speed limit in the driver’s instrument cluster based on cameras detecting roadside signs.

Paris Motor Show Overseas Premiere
Following its unveiling in Korea, the all-new Kia Sorento will make its European premiere on Thursday 2 October at the 2014 Paris Motor Show.


Editor’s notes
* Engine range specified in this release covers Europe and general markets only. The powertrain line-up for North America will be announced at a later date.
** Vehicle length dimensions are for the European specification model.
***‘General markets’ include the regions of Central and South America, the Caribbean, Asia (excluding China and Korea), the Pacific, Middle East and Africa.

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Ao vivo de Paris:

[ClioII]

Não sei se gosto destas novas mega grelhas da Kia...

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Como é que um carro tão grande tem ão pouco espaço para as pernas na segunda fila de bancos?
Ou a segunda fila é de correr e está puxada para a frente?

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já conduzi o novo sorento,

ao vivo é mais bonito, mas não impressiona - demasiado banal até.

o 2.2 diesel é potente, mas acima das 3.000 rpm é um pouco ruidoso, com 4 pessoas e alguma carga o motor é curto para um andamento mais vivo.

a caixa automática é suave, mas a reduzir não obedece como devia.

direção super leve, bons acabamentos no geral, comportamento bastante neutro e equilibrado para o suv.

assentos confortáveis e de ajuste fácil, quando elétricos, só é pena o volante ser de ajuste manual.

gostei da estabilidade em travagem a fundo também.

o motor 2.0 GDI tem um bom poder de fogo e muito superior ao diesel.


PS - existe algum tópico aberto sobre o novo sportage 2016 ?

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já conduzi o novo sorento,

ao vivo é mais bonito, mas não impressiona - demasiado banal até.

o 2.2 diesel é potente, mas acima das 3.000 rpm é um pouco ruidoso, com 4 pessoas e alguma carga o motor é curto para um andamento mais vivo.

a caixa automática é suave, mas a reduzir não obedece como devia.

direção super leve, bons acabamentos no geral, comportamento bastante neutro e equilibrado para o suv.

assentos confortáveis e de ajuste fácil, quando elétricos, só é pena o volante ser de ajuste manual.

gostei da estabilidade em travagem a fundo também.

o motor 2.0 GDI tem um bom poder de fogo e muito superior ao diesel.


PS - existe algum tópico aberto sobre o novo sportage 2016 ?

Também já pesquisei e não encontrei nada.

Já viste também o novo Sportage?

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já vi e adorei.

lindo de morrer, um misto de infiniti com Porsche.

internamente conhecido como QLe e vai ter direito a uma outra versão mais pequena QLc que vai competir com o novo IX25.

QLc não achei nada de especial, já o QLe

lindo, lindo, lindo mesmo.

Também já pesquisei e não encontrei nada.

Já viste também o novo Sportage?

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[Teste] - KIA Sorento 2.2 CRDi Auto - Autocar


Kia has high hopes for its third-generation Sorento SUV, and early indications suggest they're well founded

What is it?

This is the third-generation model of Kia’s big Sorento SUV. It’s heading for UK early next year, with a 2.2-litre diesel engine under the bonnet, all-wheel drive and seven-seats.
The Mk3 Sorento is effectively all-new, with a new, stiffer, body shell, updated running gear and transmission and a completely fresh interior.

The car is 95mm longer, measuring 4.78m long, 5mm wider and has been reduced height by 15mm. The ride height has been dropped by 20mm and the driver’s hip-point is 38mm lower, making getting in and out much easier for a wider range of drivers.

Kia says that even thought the roof is lower, lower seat cushions mean more headroom for all three rows of passengers, and there’s an increase in legroom. With the third row of seats folded, the boot capacity is up from a useful 515-litres to a significant 615-litres.

Kia engineers say this new bodyshell is ‘significantly’ stronger. 53 per cent of the structure is made up from ultra-high-strength steels (compared to 24 per cent on the outgoing model). 10 per cent of the structure – mostly in the A- and B-Pillars – is made from ultra-strong hot-stamped high tensile steel.

‘Stronger’ steel has been used around the wheel arches, tailgate and rear wheel surrounds to further stiffen this big body shell. All in all the new Sorento shell is 14 per cent stiffer than the old model.
In parallel, there’s been a concerted effort on improving refinement, with tweaks including 30 percent thicker dashboard soundproofing and larger engine and transmission mounts.

The 2.2-litre engine (set to be the only one sold in the UK) has seen power edged up from 194bhp to 197bhp and torque is up very slightly. Early figures suggest that fuel economy is marginally down, probably a consequence of the new motors meeting Euro 6 pollution standards.

Under the skin, the Sorento rolls on the same MacPherson strut and independent rear suspension. A bigger rear subframe bushes and vertically mounted shock absorbers are designed to improve body control.



What is it like?

Really rather good. This is big and roomy vehicle, which makes an immediate case for itself in terms of sheer space and interior utility.

The boot is huge in five-seat form and the human space in the third row impressive. With the second row of seats folded, the (flat) loadbay is really vast.

The version we drove in Korea was upmarket and leather trimmed, but the front seats were excellent with a good headrest design that has them right up against the back of the driver’s head. The driving position in this left-hand drive car was also top-notch.

The new-generation Sorento shows Kia’s new efforts in interior quality well, with a cabin that not too many notches below the perceived quality of the latest VWs (especially in the flat-black finish used on much of the plastics) while being likely to match VW in real-world usage quality over time.

Overall, it feels very well made and well screwed together, and Kia’s engineers have done a good job of refining the diesel engine, which, even at lower speeds and wide throttle openings, remains decently subdued.

At high speeds it is pretty hushed and the 6-speed automatic ‘box manages to meld well with the turbodiesel, something that’s not always guaranteed with this combination.

On the road, the Sorento benefits from the impressive ride. A combination of slightly softer springs and more aggressive damping control worked very well on the undulating roads of Jeju Island. The restrained body roll and quite positive steering feel (the electric assistance motor is now on the rack, rather than the column) in long bends were also welcome.

Indeed, if the driver is prepared to look ahead and make sensible use of the motor’s reasonable urge, the Sorento can be hustled along with unexpected competence.

The only real chassis downside was some town-speed bump-thump and shudders from the rear wheels over imperfections. Although the test car was on 19-inch wheels, we suspect minor rigidity issues thanks to the vast rear cabin and huge panoramic sunroof.




Should I buy one?

You should absolutely audition one. The size, utility and all-weather versatility mark it out as genuine upmarket family hauler: one car that can do nearly anything.

It’s very nicely put together, refined and is the first new model overseen by Kia’s all-powerful and independent quality control division.

This is, by a margin, the most thoroughly developed Kia yet, knocking squarely on VW’s door and offering a significant discount over premium badge rivals, such as Land Rover’s new Discovery Sport. You might even see it as a budget Volvo XC90.

Kia Sorento 2.2 CRDi auto

Price £28,000 (est); 0-62mph 9.6sec; Top speed 126mph; Economy41.5mpg; CO2 178g/km; Kerb weight 1849kg; Engine 4 cyls, 2199cc, turbodiesel; Power 197bhp at 3800rpm; Torque 325lb ft at 1750-2750rpm;Gearbox 6-speed automatic

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isto é classe 1 ou 2 na portagem?

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2016 KIA Sorento TFL4K Review: A Bigger, Nicer & Snazzier Family Truckster

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Pois parece não ser consensual a mudança.
Para mim está fantástico, principalmente a nível de equipamento e quase, mas quase de certeza que vem já um para a minha garagem, tudo depende da retoma que me fizerem.

O que não acredito é nos consumos que anunciam no site oficial.... 5.7 misto?

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Pois parece não ser consensual a mudança.
Para mim está fantástico, principalmente a nível de equipamento e quase, mas quase de certeza que vem já um para a minha garagem, tudo depende da retoma que me fizerem.

O que não acredito é nos consumos que anunciam no site oficial.... 5.7 misto?

Gosto bastante deste novo Sorento, parece um excelente produto. Design, interior, alguns materiais.
Do que vi gostei bastante.

Pena a fama do pós-venda da Kia (pelo menos em PT)

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Kia Sorento chega a Portugal no início de abril

A partir do próximo mês de abril, a marca coreana iniciará no nosso país as vendas do seu SUV maior, o Sorento.

Construído com base na plataforma da geração anterior - a mesma do Hyundai Santa Fe, mas bastante melhorada - o novo Sorento oferece um espaço no interior que faz frente aos maiores monovolumes. O objetivo da Kia é exatamente esse, por isso, o Sorento será vendido em Portugal na versão de sete lugares e tração apenas nas rodas da frente para poder pagar Classe 1 nas portagens com Via Verde.

O motor escolhido para esta versão foi o 2.2 CRDi com 200 cv de potência e 440 Nm de binário. A marca coreana promete um preço de 38 290 euros, que já inclui um desconto de 5000 euros de uma campanha que se vai manter até final do ano para o Sorento. Esta campanha tem a ver com o objetivo que a marca tem em conseguir vender 100 unidades deste modelo até final de 2015. Por este preço, o novo SUV da Kia vai estar disponível com um nível de equipamento full extras. Por mais 3000 euros, o cliente poderá optar pela versão automática. Se ainda assim quiser mesmo um Sorento 4x4, este também está disponível. Não pode ser homologado como monovolume, tem motor 2.0 CRDi de 185 cv, caixa automática e custa mais 10 mil euros que a versão de entrada.

Não perca mais informações no Autohoje da próxima semana.

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