New Kia Sportage vs used Volvo XC60: costs
The Kia Sportage is one of the best SUVs you can buy new, but would you be better off spending the same money on a one-year-old Volvo XC60 and getting a prestige badge?...
Buying and owning
Costs, equipment, reliability, safety
Buy this Kia Sportage outright via our New Car Deals service and you’ll pay £38,494. Meanwhile, our one-year-old Volvo XC60 will set you back around £39,000 – down from £52,295 when it was new.
Over the next three years, the XC60 is likely to cost you less in depreciation. Our data suggests that it will lose £13,300 of its current value, whereas the Sportage is predicted to shed £17,175 (off the list price).
Alternatively, if you buy on PCP finance, the Sportage will set you back £409 per month as part of a 36-month contract that also involves a £6101 deposit and an 8000-mile annual limit. If you’d like to keep the car at the end of the contract, that’ll be an extra £22,712. As for the XC60, we were quoted £603 per month on the same terms, with a final payment of £17,863.
The Sportage is considerably better on fuel, returning an average of 43.8mpg in our real-world economy test. The XC60 averaged just 29.6mpg. The Sportage will be cheaper to insure, too; we were quoted around £700 for a year’s cover, whereas the XC60 came in at £924 on the same terms.
You can get two services for a Sportage for £499. Buy a Volvo approved used XC60 and you’ll get two years of free servicing; after that, a two-service plan will be the same price as for the Sportage.
For peace of mind, every new Kia comes with a seven-year/100,000-mile warranty. With the XC60, you’ll have two years left of the three-year/60,000-mile warranty it got from new.
Both of these cars are generously equipped. You’ll find leather upholstery, heated front and outer rear seats, a heated steering wheel, parking sensors (front and rear) and adaptive cruise control in each car. Our high-spec Sportage adds a panoramic glass roof and ventilated front seats.
In the most recent What Car? Reliability Survey, the Sportage ranked 18th out of 32 models in the family SUV class, with a reasonable reliability rating of 92.9%. The XC60 was third out of 24 in the large SUV class, with an even more impressive 97.9% rating. Kia ranked eighth out of 32 in the brand league table, while Volvo was ninth.
Both cars were awarded Euro NCAP’s maximum five-star safety rating, although the XC60’s has expired. It was assessed in 2017 and testing has become more stringent since then.
