Kia Sportage vs Range Rover

What's the difference?

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Kia Sportage
Kia Sportage

$30,977 - $65,581

2025 price

Range Rover
Range Rover

$218,880 - $274,990

2023 price

Summary

2025 Kia Sportage
2023 Range Rover
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Inline 4, 2.0L

Twin Turbo V8, 4.4L
Fuel Type
Unleaded Petrol

Premium Unleaded Petrol
Fuel Efficiency
8.1L/100km (combined)

11.8L/100km (combined)
Seating
5

7
Dislikes
  • Slightly weird slow-speed steering
  • Feels under-specced in cheaper grades
  • Short and expensive service intervals for hybrid

  • Heavy rear doors hard to open for little kids
  • Retractable door handles
  • Centre touchscreen looks aftermarket
2025 Kia Sportage Summary

An updated Sportage is a big deal for Kia. It's the brand's best-selling model in Australia and around the world, and arguably has never faced more and stiffer competition.

There's a new Mazda CX-5 around the corner, this time with a hybrid, and Toyota has just whipped the covers off its new RAV4. And that's before you mention Hyundai, Volkswagen, Honda or the litany of Chinese newcomers all here for slice of the pie.

Kia tells us this mid-life update is designed to look better, drive better, offer better tech, better safety and better equipment right across a vast range that includes petrol, diesel, hybrid, two-wheel drive, all-wheel drive, turbo and non-turbo alike.

So the question is, is all of that enough to keep the Sportage fresh in the face of all this new competition? Let's go find out.

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2023 Range Rover Summary

Land Rover was making SUVs before they were even called SUVs. 

Range Rovers were ferrying families around in prestigious four-wheel drive comfort decades before Audi, BMW or Mercedes-Benz even thought of doing it, too. 

So, even with all its rivals these days, how well does a Range Rover do modern family duties?

Well the Range Rover Autobiography came to live with my little family of four for a week. We had the seven-seater long-wheelbase version with the twin-turbo petrol V8 engine, and this is what we discovered…  

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