People stare at this car

[Soca Boy]

In a parking lot waiting for my girlfriend, had 10 people walk around it looking at it. Having the KIA badge replaced with the Stinger badge in the rear confuses a lot of people.

 

[SEA Stinger]

The following sequence happens to me fairly often in parking lots:
1. Someone notices my Stinger and looks it over admiringly
2. It dawns on them that they don't recognize what kind of car it is
3. They ask me what it is
4. I tell them it's a KIA Stinger

Lately, more people are responding that they have heard good things about the Stinger.

While driving and at stoplights, it seems like people in BMWs, Audis, etc. look, recognize it's a Stinger, then avoid eye contact.

 

[Never thought]

I was driving by a crowd, a guy with sunglasses lowered his sun glasses and gave my car the I want to f$&k you look. It was concerning.

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

I’m only in the club two days and besides my neighbors wishing me good luck in the garage. Today at a light an older couple in an Optima hybrid roll down the passenger window and ask if I like it. Then the guy who’s driving asks if I want to race?! LOL I’m breaking it in I said so, later. Got 80 miles on it, not yet. Then the next light was epic. I’m next to an SUV which is towering over me. The guy in the passenger seat literally is putting his body out the windo to where I can see his belt buckle and asks me; Is this the one with the twin turbo?! I said yes and he gave a big thumb up and the light changes and he goes back inside.

OMG this is hilarious.

 

[Never thought]

I’m only in the club two days and besides my neighbors wishing me good luck in the garage. Today at a light an older couple in an Optima hybrid roll down the passenger window and ask if I like it. Then the guy who’s driving asks if I want to race?! LOL I’m breaking it in I said so, later. Got 80 miles on it, not yet. Then the next light was epic. I’m next to an SUV which is towering over me. The guy in the passenger seat literally is putting his body out the windo to where I can see his belt buckle and asks me; Is this the one with the twin turbo?! I said yes and he gave a big thumb up and the light changes and he goes back inside.

OMG this is hilarious.

It’s hillarious until you wait 30 minutes for your pei wei, fam at home is starving, and when you leave a coked out uber driver spends 20 minutes asking you questions about the car and talks to you about his life story, and how he was loaded until he got divorced, owned 13 new cars, blah blah ...

 

[Morky]

Hi, i'm not sure why people stare at this car but I get that look.... in or out of my Stinger and I hear the name Batman... is that the Dark Beast? lol
and I go with a Smile Yes! its a Ki@!!!

 

[NYLAWBIZ]

Re-badging has made this a lot of fun. When they ask what is it, I answer, it will cost $1.00 to find out. They look at me slack jaw, then tell them .

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

So many great stories! My Crosstour actually got some inquiries when it was new. I kept being asked what is it? I never removed the H anywhere, either. One was in a Denali next to me at the Market. Saw me open the hatch, came out and asked what is it? He later told me he wanted to downsize, liked the hatch. He didn’t know Honda made this. Yes, I said, they are crap at marketing it. I was looking for exactly this type of vehicle and stumbled on a Honda Pro Jason YouTube video and was sold on it. Honda had nothing to do with me knowing this existed.

But ... I never had anyone pull himself out the window of an SUV or anything really, and ask if it was the twin turbo version. Kia is getting that part of the marketing done. Here in Los Angeles, mine is the second one I’ve ever seen in the wild. I can see 10-20 various Tesla models every time I go out of the house for any length of time. Expensive unique cars that are everywhere, here. I bet for a time they got this reaction. Especially if they saw the Brembos on that car.

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

Re-badging has made this a lot of fun. When they ask what is it, I answer, it will cost $1.00 to find out. They look at me slack jaw, then tell them .

That’s MY plan. It will help pay for the car for sure!

 

[Ucinn]

I can't believe it. Our neighbor who hasn't spoken 3 words to me or the wife in the 8 years we have lived here. I got home from work and got out of the car. He was outside and yelled over to me "I love your car". Doubled 8 years of words in one day...lol

 

[StingerNYC]

People are still staring on a daily basis. Last night I parked in the meters by the train station and I saw a guy in the side mirror just staring. I was expecting him to ask about it(as most do) when I got out. Instead he walked away. I walked away but turned back(hard not to with this car) and he was circling the car with his phone recording.

 

[Joseph Spiegel]

... and today ay the valet at my doctors’ building. Every one of the attendants complimented on it. One said ... it’s an Optima?? He looked at the back, ... oh no! It’s new!


Oh and I showed one about driving the transmission. I know they got it right, not sure how many are just like this one, as the care was moved twice while I was upstairs. ‘Automatic’ notified me the car was started and stopped twice. It was very crowded down there so normal.

 

[Joe Kraebel]

So i had an interesting day today.

First there was some sort of checkpoint setup from the local police and he stopped me due to not having a front license plate. He asked what kind of car this was he was dumbfounded that it was a kia and was like no way this is a kia. Luckily no ticket.

Then on way home stopped at 7-eleven and a guy walking out said look at the cherry car, i want to take a bite. I kid you not

 

[niko]

every time i fill up gas someone comes up to me and ask about the car!

 

[17th_Letter]

I had a lady in a Blue optima follow me for about a mile recording with her phone. she almost followed me into my work parking lot. Still the best was having a metro bus driver slow down to stare at the car as i was sitting at a stop light.

 

[StingerGT68]

Yesterday I get the "hey open your window" honk from someone at a red light. Young guy in an older Acura:
"Is that a Kia?!"
"Yup"
"...holy SHIT! They upped their game!"

 

[oxide365]

i had a coworker come up saying they say me in a maserati, i told him it was mistake , i drive a kia. he was insistent, he says no it was you i swear. LOL

 

[SEA Stinger]

While driving home on the 405 freeway south of Bellevue last night, I caught up to a car exactly like my previous ride - 2012 Hyundai Genesis 3.8. It was even the same color and rebadged like mine was. I loved that car; it was an excellent freeway cruiser. Seeing it was kind of nostalgic, but then I thought about how much fun my Stinger is.

As I was passing, the Genny sped up so the two guys inside could take a closer look at my Stinger. It was clearly a case of car lust, enough to make my Stinger blush. They pulled ahead of me and looked back at the hood emblem. Since I have the "E" badge, they were probably confused.

While all this was happening, I started to worry that the guys would sprain their necks, crash, or both!

 

[CDv6]

...the care was moved twice while I was upstairs. ‘Automatic’ notified me the car was started and stopped twice.

Can you explain this? What is "Automatic"?