Kia Sportage - Looks great and drives well

The scene was trendy South Beach in Miami Beach, circa November, 2004.There to cover the Miami Beach auto show, I was navigating Ocean Drive in a first-generation Kia Sportage, done in blue, when I noticed people pointing at the little SUV.Compact SUVs were not as common then, especially of the breed Kia, which had only come stateside a year or two earlier. So while this one in particular was