{"id":1257,"date":"2014-09-26T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T10:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2014-09-26T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T10:50:08","slug":"kia-sportage-nifty-medium-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/kia-sportage-nifty-medium-suv\/","title":{"rendered":"Kia Sportage &#8211; Nifty medium SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/db_drivenmedia\/kia-sportage-nifty-medium-suv<\/p>\n<p>The Kia Sportage is a classified as a medium sized SUV priced under $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year this segment of the market has not been growing.\u00a0 Sales are down 2% compared to last year.\u00a0 Sportage sales however have grow 11% but it is still only seventh in the sales race behind things like the Mazda CX5, Toyota RAV4, Subaru Forester, Nissan X-Trail, Honda CR-V and Mitsubishi Outlander.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Davison from the Newcastle Herald and the Illawarra Mercury has just had a drive of the Sportage let&#8217;s find out what he thinks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 and 4 \u00a0wheel drive available on the petrol<\/li>\n<li>4 wheel drive only on the Diesel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Si<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DBC (Downhill Brake Control)<\/li>\n<li>HAC (Hill-start Assist Control)<\/li>\n<li>Trailer Stability Control<\/li>\n<li>Front &amp; rear fog lamps<\/li>\n<li>Driver &amp; front passenger SRS airbags<\/li>\n<li>Front side SRS airbags (pelvis &amp; thorax protection)<\/li>\n<li>Curtain SRS airbags (head protection)<\/li>\n<li>Impact sensing auto door unlocking<\/li>\n<li>Cruise control with steering wheel mounted controls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Si Premium<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rear view camera with mirror display &amp; parking guidelines<\/li>\n<li>Roof rails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SLi<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cooling glovebox<\/li>\n<li>Infinity\u00ae premium audio (incl. subwoofer &amp; external amp)<\/li>\n<li>Sat Nav<\/li>\n<li>7&#8243; touch screen<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Platinum<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Panoramic sunroof (powered, with open warning)<\/li>\n<li>Privacy Glass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/db_drivenmedia\/kia-sportage-nifty-medium-suv The Kia Sportage is a classified as a medium sized SUV priced under $60,000. So far this year this segment of the market has not&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[88,38,366,365,205],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-tests","tag-brent-davison","tag-kia","tag-kia-sportage","tag-sportage","tag-suv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drivenmedia.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}