THE five-door compact SUV wagon buyer faces an overwhelming choice of products, and the decision of which SUV to buy got just that little harder with the arrival of the Kia Sportage. The Sportage promises a level of sophistication that no Kia SUV has been able to achieve. Gone is the notion that with the Korean SUV you are buying old technology cheaply built. This is a suave entrée to the SUV market – but is it enough to sway buyers from the gold-standard Japanese competitors from the likes of Subaru and Toyota?