Used 2009 Kia Borrego 4WD 4dr V8 EX Review

It takes Kia places you don’t expect a big body on frame luxury. S U V for not a lot of money. Let’s see if they can fill that tall order and check the tech.

Borrego. Ex’s come in two main flavors, V6 and v8. Our car has the 3.8 liter six. With 276 horsepower and 267 foot pounds of torque, it’s coupled to a five speed auto and that whole combination gets around. Okay, but. It never feels like it’s really into the job. The V8 is a 4.6 liter unit that does 337 horsepower and 323 foot pounds, and it has a six speed automatic either way.

These are body on frame vehicles, which is a big part of why they’re kind of wandery and weird on the highway. Of course the payoff is real trucks sturdiness when you’re off-road or towing something. Kia’s not known as being a top line car maker. The idea here is you get the stuff you like without the fancy badge and the fancy price.

Let’s see how they pay off. We’ve got the upgraded head unit here, branded 10 speakers all around the cabin, and of course, a much better ability to really shape the music. But notice there’s no surround sound here, no Dolby Pro Logic, no synthetic stereo. It’s a relatively straightforward system. Just better speakers, higher quality amps.

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In this case, we’ve got navigation on the screen. That means our normal six slot in dash CD deck is reduced to a single slot, and there is no hard drive here to rip to. So you do have a bit of a, a contraction of your available music. With that single slot, but it’s not too bad, and I’ll show you why. Let’s start though with taking a look at the actual navigation system.

The resolution’s really good. This is a nice fine dot pitch and you could compare it favorably to the best from Lexus, Chrysler, some of the ones we like the most, and of course getting around it. It’s very simple with touchscreen icons, and by the way, when I enter a destination, you can see it gives me three choices on how to get there.

Different road types, if you will, different root recommendations to choose from. Our audio system is pretty good in terms of sources. A M F M, no HD radio on this sky, no iPod adaptor in the truest sense. We do have. Satellite radio. It’s serious, as you notice from the logo on the bezel and the logo right there.

And at this point, notice this interesting sort of a display logic, the ionized iPod wheel. It doesn’t spin like an iPod does, but you have this sort of four corners of the globe logic under cd. We have the in dash CD sb. I’ve got a thumb drive in there right now, and you can see now I can go through very quickly and navigate that.

No lag. I like this. And continuing on, we have an ox jack right here, a standard analog ox jack for hooking up to what have you. Oh, by the way, notice the word iPod right there by the USB and ox jack. You can connect an iPod for true onscreen access to its interface, or use u USB or UX independently for other devices.

Also available on this screen would be a backup camera, but it’s interestingly an a la carte option, not just the default part of the NAF package. Oh, by the way, rear-seat entertainment is available as an option. It would be a single dropdown screen directly in the way of the mirror, you know, not my favorite, but it also has auxiliary jacks and 115 volt AC outlets.
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