Kia Motors has revealed the first official exterior images of the all-new Kia Sportage, featuring an attractive new design. The all-new Sportage will make its global debut at the Frankfurt International Motor Show on 15 September 2015.
Entering its fourth-generation, the all-new Kia Sportage features a bold, progressive design, with the vehicle's designers creating a sense of power and agility from every angle. Echoing the contrast of smooth and sharp shapes found on some of the most iconic modern fighter jets, the Sportage creates visual harmony out of the tension between bold, precise feature lines and dramatically-sculptured bodywork.
The 'face' of the all-new Sportage represents the biggest change to the car's design, with the car's headlamps no longer integrated with the grille for the new model, instead sweeping back along the outer edges of the more sharply-detailed bonnet and bolder wheel arches. Immediately recognizable as a Kia, the Sportage's lower, wider 'tiger-nose' grille and redesigned, more aerodynamic fog lamps add more volume to the lower half of the Sportage's face, resulting in a more imposing appearance and a more stable-looking stance.
The all-new Sportage is characterized by its sportier, more raked profile. From the side, the all-new Sportage retains the swept-back silhouette of the outgoing model, with a roofline that tapers slightly towards the rear of the car, longer front overhangs, shorter rear overhangs and longer wheelbase. More deeply-sculptured bodywork and bolder wheel arches endow the Sportage with a more dynamic, muscular look.
At the rear, the horizontal forms and surface volume emphasize the car's width and give the compact SUV a more stable appearance. Inspired by the 2013 Kia Provo concept car, the slim combination lamps are joined by a strip that runs the width of the rear, while turn signals and reversing lights are separated, relocated lower down to add more visual weight and a greater sense of stability to the lower half of the car.
The design of the new Sportage has been led by Kia's European design studio in Frankfurt, Germany, with significant input from the brand's Namyang, Korea and Irvine, California design centers.
-Kia's Vision 21, September 2015 Issue 155
Publisher: Tae-Hyun Oh Editor: Michael Choo