I went with the Ultimate ICE, its comfortable and pretty effortless to drive, overall pleased with car so far. It has everything on it I need but missing HDA (high way drive assist) the PHEV or FHEV would have. What I don’t like but wouldn’t affect you is the clutch has no feeling and I’m not getting remotely close to the acclaimed MPG. The auto hold is weir or different to what I’m use to in the way that it doesn’t memorize your last setting requiring me to turn it on every time I start the car but not really a problem, although I believe the Sportage now memorizes it.
The Sportage has what would cost £1500 option pack on the Tuscon that does things like blind view monitor (get a blind view image in the speedo or rev counter when indicating) and remote park assist (can move car from outside) and a couple of other little bits that wouldn’t really bother me. Now we don’t know how much extra AP the PHEV Sportage will be over the Tuscon PHEV because the Sportage as these as standard on the top trim.
At the time I didn’t want to outlay £5.5k for the PHEV as I didn’t think I would benifit given the millage i do, but now having second thoughts LOL.
As I say overall chuffed with it the digital cluster is easy to see the interior is nice and both the Tuscon and the Sportage stand out from the crowd which I like and to add to that they sit in between the medium to large SUV class. Oh and I think the Tuscon has a slightly larger boot.
Hope this helps a little 🙂