The 2014 Kia Sportage comes with softer look and a better drive featuring small but significant upgrades to its modern exterior, as well as a refreshed interior design and new materials throughout the cabin.

The exterior design of Kia Sportage features a new front grille, new LED rear lamp clusters, a new range of alloy wheels with a choice of 16-, 17 or 18-inch diameter and a shark-fin roof antenna. The 2014 Sportage boasts an even more refined experience thanks to a number of changes designed to minimize noise, vibration and harshness (NVH). A new soundproof windscreen, with an interlayer film between the glass laminations, reduces wind noise.

As for the interior, the enhanced Sportage benefits from greater use of soft-touch materials across the dashboard and the upper door panels, a new Supervision instrument cluster with a 4.2-inch LCD display screen and new combinations of leather and/or cloth seat trims.

At the baseline rumbles a four-cylinder engine with 2.4-liter direct-injection in-line four gets a power boost from 176 hp to 182 hp.