Power Distribution per Drive Mode

[87and66]

Anyone know the power distribution percentages in each drive mode? I know sport mode is "up to 80% to the rear wheels". How about eco and comfort? Couldn't find this info in the manual or features and functions guide. I guess Kia doesn't think we need to know those specifics

 

[nhcowboy28]

Your guess is as good as anyone’s. There’s been a number of threads.
I’ve had a case open with Kia asking for the exact ratios for comfort/eco (since they are options in the awd settings).

apparently it’s as hard as quantum mechanics for Kia to know what the fark they sell.

 

[eflyguy]

It was marketed as "up to 50% to the front" when needed.

 

[MerlintheMad]

The car is a RWD platform with AWD capability. So default is 40/60 front/rear (I read this somewhere but couldn't find it if my life depended on it; I'd just have to get lucky). In Sport it can be as high as 80% to the rear (what determines this I have no idea; but guess that if you're about to hang your rear end out, power will be cut to the rear and delivered to the front; if you're driving "properly", then the system will retain more power to the rear so you can power through the curves like a proper RWD should). The GTS AWD can have 100% sent to the rear on demand (again, the system determines; but this trim is programmed to "drift", so is probably the reverse of our AWD protocols, i.e. hooning is the end goal, not safely getting swiftly around a curve). When in the other modes, full 50/50 AWD can be obtained; again, determined by the system (this determination is probably behind what frustrates some drivers some of the time: when they complain that right in the midst of some high powered cornering, or trying to do a burnout/donut, the stuffing seems to go out of the power to the wheels, as if the system has taken over and said "nuhuh to that" - that thing you are trying to do).

 

[eflyguy]

The .....

TL, DR - it's automagic.

 

[MerlintheMad]

TL, DR - it's automagic.

It is. But don't you want to know? I do. And I don't even push this car hard enough for anything it can or "wants" to do to make any difference. I probably stay in 40/60 "mode" 99% of the time. (but I have no idea, of course; if I could find a way to monitor power front and rear, I'd be on it right now)

 

[eflyguy]

But don't you want to know?

Nope, because it just works as needed.