The narrowest gap in this section. Pakistan already assembles the 1.6 T-GDI full hybrid, which is the best engine in the international Sportage range for local conditions. Europe adds a 1.6 CRDi diesel with 48V assist at 5.0 l/100 km and a 265 PS plug-in hybrid with about 70 km of electric range. The diesel's advantage is largest on long runs and smallest in traffic, so the hybrid already sold here is arguably the better car for Pakistan.
Each market tests to its own legal cycle, so these numbers describe the same engine measured three different ways. Read down a market, not across them. Figures are shown in km/l, with the market's own published unit beneath it wherever that unit differs.
| Variant | City | Highway | Combined | CO2 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.6 CRDi 136 PS, 48V mild hybrid, DCT 136 PS · 320 Nm · 7-speed DCT · Diesel mild hybrid | — | — | 20 5.0 l/100km | 132 g/km | A diesel Sportage with 48V assist, which Pakistan is not offered in any form. A belt-driven starter-generator harvests energy on the overrun into a 0.44 kWh battery and feeds it back as torque. At 5.0 l/100 km it is roughly twice as economical as the 2.0 petrol Sportage sold here, which Pakistani owners record at about 9.5 km/l in the city. Pakistan does get the 1.6 T-GDI full hybrid, which is the better car of the two for local conditions - a diesel's advantage is largest on long runs. Certified on Europe's WLTP cycle, measured in a laboratory on a rolling road. Pakistani heat, traffic and fuel will not reproduce it. Source |
| 1.6 T-GDi 265 PS plug-in hybrid, AWD 265 PS · 350 Nm · 6-speed automatic · Plug-in hybrid | — | — | — | 23 g/km | The most powerful Sportage sold anywhere: 265 PS, all-wheel drive, and a 13.8 kWh battery giving roughly 70 km of electric running. Kia quotes 1.1 l/100 km combined - 91 km/l - and 23 g/km of CO2, but both of those assume you begin every journey with a full battery. We publish no combined figure for this car because neither number describes normal use on its own: charged every night it uses almost no petrol, and with a flat battery it is a two-tonne 265 PS petrol SUV. Pakistan is offered neither this nor the diesel. Certified on Europe's WLTP cycle, measured in a laboratory on a rolling road. Pakistani heat, traffic and fuel will not reproduce it. Source |
Europe and Australia certify in litres per 100 km; the km/l figure above it is our conversion, at 100 ÷ l per 100 km. Korea certifies in km/l, so those rows carry the published figure alone and no converted one.
What the international specification genuinely gains, and what it does not.
This is the narrowest gap in this section, and it is worth saying so plainly rather than manufacturing a grievance: Pakistan already gets the best engine in the international Sportage range for local conditions.
Kia Lucky Motors assembles the Sportage L here with a 2.0-litre petrol and, since 2025, the 1.6 T-GDI full hybrid. That hybrid is the same powertrain Europe and Korea sell, and Pakistani owners of the equivalent Hyundai Tucson Hybrid record 13.5 km/l in the city and 16.5 on the highway - which is a genuinely good figure for a car this size.
What Europe has that Pakistan does not is a 1.6 CRDi diesel with 48V assist, certified at 5.0 l/100 km, and a 265 PS plug-in hybrid with roughly 70 km of electric range.
The diesel is the more interesting omission in principle and the less interesting one in practice. Its 20 km/l is achieved largely on long steady runs, and a diesel's advantage over a full hybrid narrows sharply in stop-start traffic - which is where most Pakistani Sportages will live. The hybrid Pakistan already has is arguably the right choice for the conditions.
The European Sportage range includes a 1,598 cc CRDi diesel rated at 136 PS and 320 Nm with a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox and a 48V mild-hybrid system built around a belt-driven starter-generator and a 0.44 kWh battery, and a 1,598 cc T-GDi plug-in hybrid producing 265 PS and 350 Nm with all-wheel drive, a six-speed automatic and a 13.8 kWh battery.
Pakistan is offered the 2.0-litre naturally aspirated petrol and the 1.6 T-GDI full hybrid. The full hybrid is the same 1.6 T-GDI system Europe and Korea use, in its non-plug-in form.
The diesel is certified at 5.0 l/100 km combined on WLTP, which is 20.0 km/l, with 132 g/km of CO2. That is roughly twice the 9.5 km/l Pakistani owners record from the 2.0 petrol Sportage.
The plug-in hybrid carries no combined figure on this page, deliberately. Kia quotes 1.1 l/100 km - 91 km/l - and 23 g/km of CO2, and both figures assume the battery is full when the trip starts. Charged every night and driven under 70 km a day, the car would use very little petrol. With a flat battery it is a 265 PS all-wheel-drive SUV weighing over two tonnes. No charge-sustaining figure could be sourced for this exact variant, and rather than publish the 91 km/l as though it described normal use - where it would have become the headline figure on this page - the cell is left empty and this note explains why.
For what the Sportage actually returns in Pakistan, our Pakistani pages carry owner-reported figures for the 2.0 petrol and projections for the 1.6 T-GDI hybrid built from Pakistani owner data for the identical Hyundai Tucson Hybrid powertrain.
The current Sportage was awarded five stars by Euro NCAP in 2022, with a broad standard driver-assistance package across the European range: forward collision avoidance with pedestrian, cyclist and junction detection, lane-following assist, blind-spot collision avoidance, safe exit warning and adaptive cruise control with navigation-based speed adjustment.
Pakistan's Sportage L carries six airbags, stability control, hill-start assist and a reversing camera, and the hybrid adds some driver-assistance features on upper trims, but the full European package is not offered.
Pakistan has no crash-testing programme, so the locally assembled car carries no independent rating and the Euro NCAP result applies to the European vehicle rather than to it.
Yes. Kia Lucky Motors assembles the Sportage L with the 1.6 T-GDI full hybrid, which is the same powertrain Europe and Korea sell. This is one of the few cases in this section where Pakistan is not missing the best engine in the range.
No. Europe sells a 1.6 CRDi diesel with 48V assist certified at 5.0 l/100 km, which is 20 km/l, but it is not offered in Pakistan and has not been announced. Diesel fuel quality and particulate-filter requirements have historically limited which modern diesels can be sold here.
About 70 km on the WLTP cycle, from a 13.8 kWh battery. That is enough for a typical city commute to use almost no petrol, provided the car is charged overnight.
Because no single number describes it honestly. Kia's official 1.1 l/100 km - 91 km/l - assumes a full battery at the start of every trip, and we could not source a charge-sustaining figure for this exact variant. Publishing the 91 would have made it the headline figure on this page and misled every reader who saw it.
Only with reliable home charging. A plug-in hybrid beats an ordinary car on fuel in direct proportion to how often it is plugged in. Without a home charger, or with load-shedding interrupting overnight charging, the owner is driving a heavier, more expensive car carrying a battery it rarely uses. A full hybrid like the one Pakistan already gets needs no charging at all.
Manufacturer reference: https://www.auto-data.net/en/kia-sportage-v-1.6-crdi-136hp-mild-hybrid-52566
