The new Kia Sportage is an impressive vehicle, which is going to make the competition finally sit up and take notice. Kia cannot be ignored, they sold 1.5 million vehicles in 2009 and with the new Sportage, their market share is going to increase; it´s a beautiful vehicle. Kia completely wrong footed the competition when they announced that as from January 2010, all new Kia models would have a seven year warranty.

Some used to say they were worried about Kia reliability but Kia are clearly not, if they are prepared to offer a comprehensive seven year warranty; even the extended warranties they are offering on earlier models are not expensive to buy. The seven year warranty will help to lower Kia Sportage car leasing rates because they will be very popular as second hand vehicles, which in turn affects residual values. The 2.0 Diesel version will achieve almost 50 mpg and an impressive 156g/km. This is an excellent car that will prove to be a very popular contract hire model.