Kia Sportage VW Tiguan vs Coupé Coupé: the great duel SUV coming

The compact SUV segment is preparing to welcome two models that will revolutionize the category. Kia Sportage and VW Tiguan variants have emotional coupe … and so will.

If traditional compact SUV ruled alone for years, and already from this 2017 we have seen how They have entered strongly the new big SUV (Skoda, Kodiaq, 5008, Renault Koleos…) and the Small SUV (Seat Arona, Stonic Kia, Hyundai Kona…) points, because we know what the next category cover: those SUV coupes.

If above the BMW X6 inaugurated possibly the concept, then was Range Rover Evoque below who premiered his class with a true coupe variant. Now it is precisely the compact segment which already announces the arrival of very interesting models. He GT Skoda Kodiaq (Which you just talk these days), the GLA Mercedes Coupé, he Audi Q4 or the BMW X2 are some of the models that arrive in the coming months on the market. However, here we focus on, perhaps, the two models that surprise for its aesthetics, accessibility and performance. Volkswagen Tiguan and Kia Sportage, two selling today that it will open an interesting dispute in the Coupe segment.

Volkswagen Tiguan Coupe: end of 2018

Of the Volkswagen Tiguan Coupe we’ve already spoken on occasion, but today we bring news. New artwork made by our specialist Schulte We anticipate very realistic and how will this spectacular model that will and third variant of Tiguan, after standard SUV and the new Tiguan Allspace 7 seats you start marketing these days.

Developed on the same MQB platform Volkswagen Group, and from which emerges from the Tiguan to Ateca Seat or Skoda Kodiaq, the new Tiguan Coupe should reach the roads and 2018, as it announced from Germany. The model actually is not a surprise: it will be very similar to a concept presented already in the Hall of Shanghai by the brand in 2013, and was then called Blue Cross Coupé.

Volkswagen Tiguan Coupe future seek to provide not just a sportier aesthetic the model, but also a more agile handling and distinctive touch more exclusive. It is expected therefore to renounce access engines in the range, to offer alternatives to gasoline 1.5 TSI 150 hp with disconnection system cylinder 2.0 TSI 180 hp, Diesel and with the upper blocks 2.0 TDI 150 and 190 hp.

In the range of the new VW Tiguan Coupe should not miss either nor front-wheel drive versions, and 4Motion all-wheel drive, as well as models manual or automatic 7-speed DSG. The equipment is very complete and have all the latest technology that Volkswagen introduced its new models. Will it be the new benchmark in the segment?

Kia Sportage Coupé: for early 2019

Opposite, the Volkswagen Tiguan Coupe will, more than likely, a team that hopes to put very difficult things: Kia Sportage Coupe. This new variant, developed from which is already today one of the best-selling compact SUV and most successful market, would presumably in early 2019.

We say allegedly, because at the moment our exclusive reports tell us that The project is under study with other prototypes future models. Unconfirmed therefore itself venture to anticipate that if the segment promises, there will be Kia’s first. And with developments that might already be In advance between his team of engineers.

He Kia Sportage Coupe It would result ambitious goal marked by the brand for the coming years: sell up to 600,000 units per year. To do this, will launch in 2018 its New Kia cee’d, which we have even seen a prototype shooting brake variant of the most original. The Sportage Coupé be part of this other study differentiator body, promising what sportier SUV and stimulating.

Initially it is expected that the Kia Sportage can Coupé measuring between 4.30 and 4.40 meters length, providing light and responsive. With good touch driving already we perceive new brand models (the last case of Kia Stonic), this SUV developed by and for Europe. Their engines gasoline presumably be the new 1.0 T-GDI 3 cylinder 120 hp and the 1.4 T-GDI 4 cylinder 140 hp. Diesel, the 1.6 CRDi 110 and 136 hp should command the offer, as we see more humble than the Tiguan.

As for versions with alternative drive systems, Kia moment seems to bet for the near future to sub-hybridization mild hybrid, with system 48V to reduce emissions without firing on the other hand costs. In any case, the new SUV coupes duel promises … a lot!