2016 Kia Sorento 2.0T AWD - Car and Driver (blog)
It used to be rare that we’d test a four-cylinder vehicle that cost more than the same model equipped with a V-6, but that’s becoming more common—and it’s what we have here: a loaded Kia Sorento SXL for $45,095, fully 10 percent pricier than the... This four, though, isn’t the base engine—it’s the 240-hp turbocharged 2. 0-liter found in the EX and in this SXL (for “SX Limited”) trim level. Bracketing the V-6 at the lower end of the lineup is a second four-cylinder, as the base Sorento L and LX make do with a normally aspirated 2. 4-liter rated at 185 horsepower. Generally speaking, all the four-cylinder models—turbo or non-turbo—are two-row crossovers while the V-6 versions (LX, EX, SX, and SXL) add a tiny third-row seat. There’s only one way to get three rows in a four-cylinder: The LX with the base engine offers the third row as an extracost option. At the track, this turbo four trailed the V-6, taking 8. 0 seconds to hit 60 mph versus 7. 2, but the gap narrowed in the quarter-mile, this model doing 16. 2 seconds at 87 mph as compared to 15. 7 at 90. Full-throttle drag racing probably won’t... Source: www.caranddriver.com
