KIA is at it again with the Sportage II, a five-door five-seat sport-utility wagon developed concurrently with the quite-good Hyundai Tucson and sold here at a sharper (driveaway) price (but with a less generous three-year warranty). The great news is that if you’re after a powerful compact SUV and this is all you can afford, then the Sportage doesn’t have the sort of dynamic and quality compromises its rubbishy predecessor did. And the Kia is also well equipped, good-looking and fairly capable on and off road – as long as it's only mud or sand you’ll be surfing on. So no need for apologies any longer - here’s a Kia you would happily steer. To underline that, they should have changed the name.