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Advanced engine line-up for next Kia Sorento
First details on the 2010 Kia Sorento engines and their fuel efficiency!
At the Seoul Auto Show Kia unveiled it’s next generation Sorento crossover.
The all-new Sorento is making huge step forward in terms of design, refinement and powertrain options.
When Sorento goes on sale later this year it will be available with a variety of fuel efficient diesel, gasoline and LPG powered engines. In general, there will be four of them, but availability of the various engine will depend on market and region.
The eco-friendly 2.2L R-diesel engine is equipped with third-generation common-rail fuel injection system and satisfies strict Euro 5 emissions standards.
Thanks to the use of advanced technology, the engine out-performs most of diesel engines from rival brands. It generates a maximum power of 200 horsepower and 435Nm of torque.
Gasoline power will come from 2.4L and 3.5V6 engines. The upgraded 2.4L inline four-cylinder Theta II engine will be used as an entry-level Sorento engine in the US market.
It features Continuously Variable Valve Timing – CVVT technology and generates 175 horsepower and 23.0 kgm of torque.
Currently still under development, the 3.5L gasoline Lambda II V6 engine is expected to be ready for Sorento’s North American launch in September 2009.
The upgraded Lambda II engine, which has been downsized from 3.8L to 3.5L will have a power output of 280 horsepower 34.2Nm of torque. According to Kia engineers, the engine has been specially designed to provide maximum fuel efficiency.
In Korean market, the all-new Sorento will also be available with 2.7L LPI (Liquefied Petroleum Injection) Mu V6 engine that packs 162 horsepower and 25.0 kgm of torque. The LPI engine is expected to be the most economical of all to run as LPG fuel is approximately half the price of petrol.
All engines will be mated to the new six-speed automatic transmission. The all-new six-speed tranny has been developed in conjunction with Hyundai Motor Company and will later be applied to other mid-sized Kia models as well. It is possible that Kia will also offer a six-speed manual transmission on markets such as Europe and South Korea.
There is a nice write up on the 2010 Kia Sorento at Kia-Buzz website. A very informative presentation article was written by Seung-il Kim, Vice President & Head of Car Development at Kia Motors Korea. Check it out!
Find more Kia Sorento News here…
The torque rating on the V6 has to be wrong–it converts to only 25 lb-ft. Assuming it’s 34.2 kgm, then that converts to 247 lb-ft, which seems a lot more reasonable.
200 hp and sub 11 seconds from 0-100 kms/h. on a Diesel engine…….. my, how cars and diesel technology have changed…..
The West Point plant in Georgia is scheduled to start producing the 2010 Sorento for the US market this September
Too bad the USA won’t get the diesel or headlamp washers.
Yes. as I have said before on this site, there’s a mixture of torque measurement systems here, it would be nice if we just stuck to one. Even HP and foot pounds then I can convert both to what I’m used to now, Kilowatts and Newton Meters. But Kilogram Meters…??? I guess some European counties use that measurement system.
Gee, I hope the Kia company has trained all their NEW employees up properly, and they adhere to a production policy similar to the Japanese motor companies, which is QUALITY above all else. I have worked under both US and Japanese systems. The American system was production output at all costs and fix the the quality later, but when the Japanese took over where I was working, quality was god, even to the point of stopping the line if there was a quality issue. I would say the Koreans would be the same and insist on “quality” rather than “quantity”.
Headlamp washers are worthless but I really don’t understand developing a diesel engine that is US compliant and not make it available in the US! WTF
Could it be the oil companies lobbying against it?? Or the greenies?? and the general perception of dirty under performing diesel engines. They wouldn’t use as much fuel, so maybe I had better stick to the oil company theory and their resistance to change. Look at the electric car of the 70’s and 80’s, they made sure they didn’t get on the road, in numbers anyway. But they’re coming. (eg Mitsubishi iMiEV) and even Jeep have got one, haven’t they??
Nice! Really love the sound of all that torque on the R2.2 Diesel.
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“of 280 horsepower 34.2Nm of torque”, should that be 342Nm?
You know what I just noticed? The front end of the new Sorento just screams Kue!
Kid I. where did you read the diesel was US compliant? It clearly reads EURO-5 (like in Europe…. ;-))
The new R-diesel is US-compliant. The problem is that, with $2 a gallon gas, people aren’t very interested in diesel, since the engines often carry a premium for build cost. If gas goes back up to $4 a gallon, then diesel will become popular.
It depends on how much the option costs whether diesel would work here. If the diesel option costs $2000, it would take about 11.5 years to pay off for the average driver given about a 10mpg boost. If gas goes to $4 per gallon, it would take 3.6 years to pay it off. If the diesel option was only $1000, those figures are cut in half.
diesel will not be in america any time soon. maybe in 5 years from now but i would be shocked if they bring diesel. What they need is a hybrid option. that is what my customers are asking for.
Hybrids take even longer to pay off and generally lower towing, but I guess the “smugness” factor is worth the extra dollars and loss of utility. People in the U.S. just don’t know what a good diesel sounds and feels like. Americans think that a diesel must pour out soot and clatter incessantly like the diesels of old.
Don’t expect more than one hybrid, if that. Hybrids are extremely inefficient. But try to explain that to the liberal Gore follower with their head up their ass. Why should Kia bother RD with hybrids when they could perfect hydrogen technology.
i can care less if it is diesel, hybrid or cooking oil. What ever brings people in and buys cars is what i am a fan of.
My interest is in all-electric powertrain technology. There is Mitsubishi’s i-MiEV, Pininfarina-Bollore’s BlueCar and BYD’s e6 that I am looking at from the SE Arizona desert. The Pininfarina-Bollore BlueCar has photovoltaic panels on it’s roof and in it’s grille to gather up some solar energy to convert to more electric power. And regenerative braking, of course. All-electric’s do leave their share of carbon footprint, true, in their production and electric usage tied to coal-fired electric plants, but look at the whole worldwide automotive future for a second. The Chinese and their democratic “everyone must have an automobile” push is already adding so much pollution to the entire world as it is. You may want to do your part but we share the world with so many other billions of people. We must weigh for the greater good or the greater bad overall. All-electrics don’t pollute out the tailpipe at least. A smattering of H2O is all that comes out.
In Manistee they are manufacturing “Windspires” that are perfect for charging an all-electric car. They are relatively small (about 10 feet tall), produce plenty of electricity for charging a car battery. It costs around $6,000, but is a great green alternative. They even work like normal in a low-wind environment.
Battery efficiency still has a long way to go. They’re slow to charge, notoriously inefficient, and short lived in comparison to traditional vehicle technology. It’s certainly a step in the right direction though. Why doesn’t anybody make a diesel electric hybrid. Diesels make great generators so I have no doubt that they’d be great in a hybrid application.
arumage, well, it sounds like somebody should! I’m not jonesin’ for an immediate switch to all-electric tech., but am sick of the dork futures-traders and ExxonMobil and their $43B large ones in profit in 2008. Ghastly should probably only cost us about 50 cents a gallon in all reality. I can charge a BYD e6 up in about 6 or 7 hours with a 220V dryer plug(that is already in place in my laundry room, which is just next to where I would bring the e6 in on my driveway, so reaching it would not be a problem)and it goes 0-60 in only 8 seconds. It goes up to 100 mph and what I am most interested in, the car has a range of 249 miles. The e6 seats 7 people and is closest in design to being called a crossover. I would need to see this range in real life, and test drive the car thoroughly before I would be interested. And I have been spoiled by the Long-Haul Warranty and Mitsubishi’s 10 year, 100,000-mile Warranty, that BYD’s would probably pale in comparison to those. But I’m getting set to plug and play instead of pumping and playing.
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