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Newbie from Columbia, MO

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I've already learned a lot from this forum over the past couple weeks so I guess it's time I say hi.

My 2007 Ford Escape bit the dust a couple weeks ago so I had to find a new vehicle. Had never been in a Kia before but after looking at the prices I decided to test drive a couple of them here in town. (A 2012 Optima and a 2011 Sportage - loved both!)

I wanted to stick with a SUV so I used cars.com to find a nice 2011 Sportage EX in Iowa (only had 38K miles on it!).

VERY happy with my decision (didn't buy one locally because they only had one used EX and it had more miles than i wanted, 60K). Nice leather seats, has the backup sensors, bluetooth, and my 3 and 1 year olds love the panoramic sunroof. Only thing it's missing is a backup camera but hopefully in the next few months I'll add that along with a DVD player/GPS stereo system.

Already added a Class III Hidden Hitch and waiting one one more part to install my Yakima bike rack on top.

When my wife's car (a 2007 Honda Civic) bites the dust in a few years we'll hopefully pick up an Optima as I was very impressed with the test drive.
 
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