Kia Sportage

"Fails 20%"

"20% of the time the Appleplay fails to recognize Connected phone"

"It is a terrible navigation system. Voice recognition doesn't work, and it often can't find an address when it is input manually before driving. As well, POI's don't work, and very difficult to find things like a golf course, a particular store, etc. Pretty much useless, unless you input the address while stopped, and it happens to recognize an address. Process then becomes find a location on my phone, input the address and maybe it finds it, otherwise try to use phone to navigate."

"At highway speeds under light load , on kickdown (downshift) the transmission would go into neutral."

"The worst feature of the car is the automatic tailgate. It may or may not open when you want it to, you just stand and wait, wondering if it will choose to open this time or not. At the same time, it will frequently pop open if you pass by it, not wanting it to open. Several times we have found the tailgate wide open the next morning. An equally terrible feature is that there is no mechanism to close the tailgate automatically, like by using the foot wave on the Escape. I had a Ford Escape before and the foot control worked perfectly, all the time. Another terrible feature is the design of the key fob. The buttons stand out from the fob, so the buttons seem to get pushed inadvertently quite frequently just from being in a pocket, Frequently this sets off the car alarm, even when we are in the house. Again, on the Ford Escape, it never happened."