When you need to carry stuff and things, the ultimate winner is the Soul. Broadly built people will also appreciate the shoulder room leaders Soul, Kona and HR-V. But for rear passengers, the Soul and HR-V are the places to stretch out. The Kicks also offers the most front leg room, followed by the C-HR. Starting with passenger space, the Nissan Kicks is the king of noggin clearance, just edging out the Soul. Passenger and cargo space and fuel economy Of course the other big reason people like hatchbacks and crossovers is for their practicality. Both turbocharged variants also use seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmissions.
The Soul has an available six-speed manual transmission on the 2.0-liter engine, and the 2.0-liter Kona uses a traditional torque converter automatic. Interestingly, all of these are less powerful than the Korean options, with only theĪll of these vehicles send power through CVTs with the exception of the Soul and Kona. The C-HR rounds out the trio at 144 horsepower and 139 pound-feet of torque from a 2.0-liter engine. The HR-V is next with a 1.8-liter engine making 141 horsepower and 127 pound-feet of torque. Nissan's engine is the smallest and least powerful: a 1.6-liter engine making 125 horsepower and 115 pound-feet of torque. The Soul has 201 horsepower to the Hyundai's 175, but both make the same 195 pound-feet of torque.Ĭ-HR and HR-V all offer just one engine option, and they're all naturally aspirated. The base engines have identical outputs of 147 horsepower and 132 pound-feet of torque, but the turbo engines differ. Kia and Hyundai have two possibilities, either a base 2.0-liter naturally aspirated engine, or a turbocharged 1.6-liter engine. Hyundai offering it on both engine options. These include the Nissan Kicks, Toyota C-HR and A surprising number of these supposedly rugged and off-road-oriented vehicles (at least more than normal cars) are front-drive only. Performance, fuel economy and drivetrains The crossover segment is diverse when it comes to powertrains, with all different displacements, induction systems and drive wheels. In the meantime, though, check out all the numbers on our selected vehicles in the chart below, followed by analysis after. Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross comparison that includes a few larger choices). There are of course many more options, and you can create your own comparisons using ourĬompare Cars feature.
To see how the Soul stacks up to the fresh competition, we've compiled vital stats on all the tall hatches.Ĭonsidering the prodigious size of the subcompact crossover segment, we've limited our selection to a few options that are similarly priced and sized to the Soul, and that offer a bit of funky styling.
But the Soul is ready with its own rugged trim, the X-Line, plus the return of its powerful turbocharged variant. They offer similar sizes, prices and flexibility as the But now it faces all new competition: subcompactĬrossovers. To get here, it fought off other boxy hatchbacks such as the 2020 Kia Soul has entered its third, and potentially best, generation yet.