I had a 1995 Sportage back in the late 1990s. Man, you wanna talk about 'an early Kia'. That thing didn't even have a Kia engine in it. It had the same 2.0 that Mazda put in the B2000 pickups back in the 1980s. Matter of fact, it didn't even have any airbags.
Reliable rig, but I could never keep a set of auto-locking hubs in it for very long. They would always fail, and I think I went through about three sets.