I was in the local Kia showroom recently, found the Sportage really quite small inside, it looked hardly any bigger than the Niro parked next to it & the Niro had a better dash/cockpit layout.
Both too small for me though.
The CR-V didn’t do so well in most magazine comparisons with the Rav4, but there was a recent one in Autocar where it was up against the Rav4 & Forester hybrids, it won but not by much, the CR-V was more refined (if a bit dull inside). Rav 4 came a close second. They then put the CR-V up against the CX-5 diesel, it lost…
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