-What do you think of when someone says the words “Kia Sorento“? Do you confuse it with the Sedona minivan? Do you see flashes of Goldfish crackers and kids’ soccer games? It’s extremely unlikely, however, that anything like these images pop into your head. What you’re looking at, people, is the PacWest Adventure Sorento concept, a hard-core off-roader that, at some point, was a humble family crossover.
In fact, it’s still a Sorento, only one that’s been transmogrified into a Ford F-150 Raptor–like beast for the 2015 SEMA show in Las Vegas. According to Kia, the Sorento concept has been given a “custom suspension, snorkel intake system, and a paint scheme inspired by the lush forests of the [Pacific Northwest] region.”
-To put a finer point on things, builder LGE-CTS Motorsports fabricated a new front subframe to handle the Sorento’s extended wheel travel, and longer connecting link and trailing arms were fitted at the rear. The suspension also incorporates a set of Fox Racing coil-overs nestled inside Eibach springs. Ground clearance is up by a full six inches, in part due to the 285/70-17 Nitto off-road rubber fitted to a set of BMF beadlock wheels. There’s a full complement of off-road armor and accouterments, including new bumpers (into which an LED light bar is incorporated up front), front and rear skid plates, a MileMarker winch, and a roof rack outfitted with tow straps and an easy-deflator kit. A second LED bar is within the roof rack.
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So it’s just the thing for when you have to ford a stream or climb a few boulders on the way to dance practice. Whatever you’d do with it, there’ no denying its bad-ass-itude, and we dig this alternate take on the Sorento we like just fine in its normal form.
-from Car and Driver Blog http://ift.tt/1i1fYXf
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