2025 Kia Sportage
This year drew an ordinary 49 complaints for a Kia Sportage — the model's median is 111. What they were about is the unusual part: 26.5% of them mention again, against 8.8% across the model's other years.
Generation 4 of the Kia Sportage, which began in 2023. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 49 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 111 |
| Involving a crash | 3 |
| Recalls | 1 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 26.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- again — 26.5% of this year's complaints, against 8.8% across the model's other years (3×).
- being — 22.4% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (3.6×).
- despite — 14.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (3.7×). Owners wrote it as: despite, properly.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
Oil was being diluted by fuel seeping in from the injectors and the high pressure fuel pump. Vehicle was brought in twice to fix the problem. During the 24-27 Feb 26 repair the high pressure fuel pump was diagnosed and replaced. On 16 Mar 26 I noticed the oil…
While exiting the John C. Lodge Freeway in Detroit at approximately 40 MPH, the brake pedal became stuck halfway during braking and the vehicle did not stop properly on the first brake application. I had to remove my foot from the brake pedal and press it agai…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 25V874000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Kia Sportage was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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