Kia Sportage

The Kia Sportage is a compact sport utility vehicle built by the South Korean maker Kia across five generations. It began in 1993, when the nameplate was used for a vehicle produced under a joint venture with Mazda and shared its platform with the Mazda Bongo. In 2004 the second generation arrived as a crossover SUV on a unibody platform, moving away from the earlier body-on-frame chassis, and it was sold alongside the Hyundai Tucson. Since 2016 the Sportage has been the best-selling Kia model worldwide, overtaking the Rio, and it passed five million units produced in 2018. In the Kia range it sits between the Seltos or Niro and the three-row Sorento, which shares its platform.