First Drive: 2011 Kia Sportage SX

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Turbocharging Adds Welcome Spice To This Handsome Soft-Roader

There is no replacement for displacement. Request any man or girl who dined on the muscle autos that Detroit was serving in the ’50s and ’60s, and they’ll inform you to always purchase the greatest engine offered if you want to have any fun. Issue is, that tired previous axiom just isn’t accurate in the modern era. Downsizing is what’s for dinner these days.

Prior to any person older than sixty has a heart assault, know that the ever-escalating horsepower wars are alive and effectively. As it turns out, there is a replacement for displacement: technological innovation. Get one particular portion modern personal computers and the hundreds of sensors that feed them, add the traditional trick of turbocharging and sprinkle on the comparatively newfangled mechanical magic of immediate injection, and you’ve obtained by yourself a single tasty recipe for overall performance. And you don’t want a cup that measures electrical power in cubic inches to get it.

Search no farther for evidence than Kia. The Korean automaker is working hard to modify its tough-earned picture of offering reduced-expense, fundamental transportation to some thing much more like the sportier facet of a dual-headed Korean conglomerate that also includes Hyundai. Its SX trim level is part of that program, and the most up-to-date two vehicles to bear individuals letters only have a less-is-much more tactic of power creation on the menu. We’ve previously sampled the turbocharged, direct-injected Optima SX and have been left wanting seconds now it is time to style Kia’s properly-acquired and attractive compact crossover, the Sportage, in turbo flavor.

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