Kia Sorento
With its imposing alloy wheels and sleek design, the Sorento is an inspiring sight. You even have the option of colour-coded bumpers for extra refinement.
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The Kia Sorento is the award-winning SUV that combines performance, style and luxury. Whether you take a drive through town or navigate up a rugged mountain trail, the Sorento won’t fail to impress with its contemporary design and advanced technology.
With clean, crisp styling, advanced safety features and excellent build quality, the Sorento provides a comfortable, spacious and refined drive.
The interior is remarkably luxurious for a rugged off-roader, with a well thought out cabin design and plenty of room for five to travel in comfort. The high driving position provides maximum visibility and a reassuring feeling of security, while the ergonomically designed cabin has all controls located at your fingertips. Designed for today’s active lifestyles and engineered to last, the Sorento is an uncompromising SUV that’s fi t for whatever you throw at it, whether you’re mountain biking, towing a horse box or simply doing the weekly shop. The Sorento’s true comfort zone makes your weekend drive, commute or even a trip to the supermarket a pleasure.
The Sorento features four airbags as standard to provide protection for all passengers. The impressively strong rigid steel unitary body chassis helps to prevent collision impact while the front seat active headrests help prevent whiplash.
Active safety features include an Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD), as standard across the range. The systems work in tandem to optimise braking efficiency and performance on all surfaces. Kia’s Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) is also available on high grade models for greater stability in arduous conditions.
All-round protection features ensure all passengers are kept safe despite the demands imposed on a premium SUV. Twin front and full-length curtain airbags combined with front active headrests ensure optimum safety protection. Further peace-of-mind is provided by front and rear side impact beams, a front passenger airbag cut-off switch and front seatbelt pretensioners with load limiters.
Kia’s state-of-the-art engines are designed to deliver the performance, reliability
and economy to match your driving requirements, however demanding. The 2.5 litre CRDi diesel engine available on the Sorento delivers 168 bhp with perfect performance and impressive fuel economy.
The 2.5 litre diesel engine is available with either a five-speed manual transmission or a five-speed sports mode automatic transmission which enables the driver to shift the gears up or down with effortlessly refined accurate changes.
The Sorento features a fully independent suspension system, with double wishbone front suspension and a five-link setup at the rear, which provides stability on even the roughest terrain, soaking up the harshest of bumps with remarkable efficiency. Gas-filled shock absorbers provide a controlled ride even over rough off-road surfaces. And you don’t just have to take our word for it – the Sorento is a multi-award-winning vehicle including the coveted Caravan Club’s ‘All Wheel Drive Over 1800 kg’ class winner in both 2007 and 2008.
In everyday driving conditions the Sorento’s impressive ride and handling is smooth, responsive and agile. But take it off the beaten track and its awesome 4×4 capabilities really begin to shine. The Sorento XE features a selectable 4WD system known as Electronic Shift Transfer (EST) whilst the high grade models feature full-time electronically controlled 4WD.
The EST models feature a switch on the dashboard which allows you to manually change between two-wheel-drive and four-wheel-drive depending upon your driving conditions. You can also switch to low-ratio 4WD on steep gradients, deep mud or snow and ice. This ultra low gearing delivers maximum traction to get you out of trouble in even the most arduous conditions.
The full-time permanent 4WD known as Torque On Demand (TOD) automatically evaluates your driving conditions and distributes power between the wheels accordingly for optimum performance and efficiency. The level of grip required is adjusted using Active Torque Transfer (ATT). Just like the EST derivative, low-ratio can still be manually selected when the going gets tough.
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