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The Good Car Guy has been paying a lot of attention to small SUVs (or whatever you call them) over the last 24 hours. First, there was the look at sales of cute-utes in the United States last month. Then came a look at the USD and CAD base prices of every soft-roader known to man. Today, a look at new pictures of the 2011 Kia Sportage.... arranged in revealing light.
- 2011 Kia Sportage: First Official Photos Of Compact Suv [updated Gallery]
This handsome-looking compact crossover is the next generation 2011 Kia Sportage that will be unveiled to the public for the first time at the upcoming 2010 Geneva Motor Show in the beginning of March. Penned under the guidance of former Audi designer...
- 2011 Kia Sportage Compact Suv Spied Inside And Out
Kia is continuing the development of its next generation Sportage that is scheduled to enter the market in the first half of 2010. Our spies captured a camouflaged prototype of the compact SUV in Germany giving us a taste of the Sportage silhouette and...
- 2010 Hyundai Tucson Spied Working Out, Will Get New 1.6-liter Direct Injection Engines
By the end of the year, Hyundai is expected to have swiped the covers off two very important models for the company's future - the 2011 Sonata mid-size sedan, pictures of which we showed you earlier today, and the second generation Tucson SUV that...
- Small Suv Sales And Minivan Sales In Canada - November 2010
With the Chrysler Town & Country's assistance, the Dodge Grand Caravan is Canada's second-best-selling vehicle. Without it, Dodge's minivan slots right in behind the Honda Civic; 1616 sales behind through the first eleven months of 2010....
- Small Suv Sales In Canada - March 2010
The fourth best-selling car in Canada for the month of March was the 2010 Hyundai Elantra. Sales of the Elantra reached 3,118 last month. Were The Good Car Guy to allow small SUV sales to compete for the title of Best Selling Car In Canada, the Honda...
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2011 KIA SPORTAGE & 2010 HYUNDAI TUCSON IMAGE COMPARISON
The Good Car Guy has been paying a lot of attention to small SUVs (or whatever you call them) over the last 24 hours. First, there was the look at sales of cute-utes in the United States last month. Then came a look at the USD and CAD base prices of every soft-roader known to man. Today, a look at new pictures of the 2011 Kia Sportage.... arranged in revealing light.
Perched next to the Kia Sportage in the image below is its brother from another mother, the Hyundai Tucson. Sharing plenty of their underthings is one thing, but these two do not go out on the town dressed alike. Kia uses slightly harder lines for the Sportage while Hyundai rounded out the Tucson, making it appear lower where the Sportage seems more butch.
Although these vehicles share architecture, their respective marketing strategies will be drastically different. The Hyundai Tucson is already available priced just $1,000 beneath the Kia Sportage's big brother, the Sorento. It's improbable that Kia would so closely align the 2011 Sportage with the larger, more thoroughly fitted Kia Sorento - even if the two combine forces to battle America's best-selling SUV, the more expensive Honda CR-V.
Regardless, this post is about image. On the right, you see the Kia Sportage. On the left, Hyundai presents the Tucson. Angle for angle, Kia's got it nailed. Seen together, the Hyundai may come across as slightly upscale but doesn't seem as cohesive.
- 2011 Kia Sportage: First Official Photos Of Compact Suv [updated Gallery]
This handsome-looking compact crossover is the next generation 2011 Kia Sportage that will be unveiled to the public for the first time at the upcoming 2010 Geneva Motor Show in the beginning of March. Penned under the guidance of former Audi designer...
- 2011 Kia Sportage Compact Suv Spied Inside And Out
Kia is continuing the development of its next generation Sportage that is scheduled to enter the market in the first half of 2010. Our spies captured a camouflaged prototype of the compact SUV in Germany giving us a taste of the Sportage silhouette and...
- 2010 Hyundai Tucson Spied Working Out, Will Get New 1.6-liter Direct Injection Engines
By the end of the year, Hyundai is expected to have swiped the covers off two very important models for the company's future - the 2011 Sonata mid-size sedan, pictures of which we showed you earlier today, and the second generation Tucson SUV that...
- Small Suv Sales And Minivan Sales In Canada - November 2010
With the Chrysler Town & Country's assistance, the Dodge Grand Caravan is Canada's second-best-selling vehicle. Without it, Dodge's minivan slots right in behind the Honda Civic; 1616 sales behind through the first eleven months of 2010....
- Small Suv Sales In Canada - March 2010
The fourth best-selling car in Canada for the month of March was the 2010 Hyundai Elantra. Sales of the Elantra reached 3,118 last month. Were The Good Car Guy to allow small SUV sales to compete for the title of Best Selling Car In Canada, the Honda...