Kia Sorento 2023 Manual page 324

Driving your vehicle
repetitively depress the accelerator
pedal.
僅 The driving mode automatically
changes to SMART NOMAL mode
with the same driving patterns, when
the vehicle starts to drive on an
upward slope of a certain angle. The
driving mode automatically returns to
SMART ECO mode, when the vehicle
enters a leveled road.
僅 The driving mode automatically
changes to SMART SPORT, when you
abruptly accelerate the vehicle or
repetitively operate the steering
wheel. (Your driving is categorized to
be sporty.) In this mode, your vehicle
drives in a lower gear for abrupt
accelerating/decelerating and
increases the engine brake perfor-
mance.
僅 You may still sense the engine brak-
ing performance, even when you
release the accelerator pedal in
SMART SPORT mode. It is because
your vehicle remains in lower gear
over a certain period of time for next
acceleration. Thus, it is a normal driv-
ing situation, not indicating any mal-
function.
僅 The driving mode automatically
changes to SMART SPORT mode only
in harsh driving situations. In most of
the normal driving situations, the driv-
ing mode sets to be either in SMART
ECO mode or in SMART NOMAL
mode.
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Drive mode integrated control system
Limitation of SMART mode
The SMART mode may be limited in fol-
lowing situations. (The OFF indicator
appears in those situations.)
僅 Cruise Control is activated:
Cruise Control may deactivate the
SMART mode when the vehicle is con-
trolled by the set speed of Smart
Cruise Control. (SMART mode is not
deactivated just by activating Cruise
Control.)
僅 The transmission oil temperature is
either extremely low or extremely
high:
The SMART mode can be active in
most of the normal driving situations.
However, an extremely high/ low
transmission oil temperature may
temporarily deactivate the SMART
mode, because the transmission con-
dition is out of normal operation con-
dition.