written by TabbysDad on 01/08/2016
With its chunky off road styling and impressive standard kit you'd be forgiven for thinking the Kia Sorento is a premium SUV....It isn't. Having owned various Mercedes ML's and the like over the years, I can only say that Kia misses the mark by quite some margin. The vehicle we very briefly owned was a 2006 model with a mere 75,000 on the clock and a fully stamped service book, so expectations were high. However, the reality was a huge disappointment. The interior is extremely cheap and nasty, the engine is loud and woefully under powered, and the ride quality is awful. The steering is vague and unresponsive, and the car jiggles and bounces over even the smallest of bumps ( of which we sadly have many on the UK roads ) However, the worst feature of this vehicle is the complete lack of under body rust protection. There are many reports of rear axles literally coming away from their mountings due to corrosion, and I'm hardly surprised given that our car was so rusty it shouldn't have passed an MOT. So we returned it to the dealer ( who refunded us without question ) and is hopefully on it's way to the scrapyard where it belongs.
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