Has anyone seen any Stingers in the wild?

[ShannonC]

A ceramic grey, silky silver, and sunset yellow all within about 5-10 minutes in Gosford on Tuesday morning.

A deep chroma blue Tuesday afternoon in Newcastle.

A micro blue in Koolewong yesterday.

A ceramic grey in Gosford, tonight on the way home, along with a high chroma red at Ourimbah, and a snow while pearl 2021 model at Warnervale which I think is the same one I saw last week almost in the same spot.

Cenral Coast name change to Stinger Territory.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Exactly! Anyone with anything other than a tractor or hay wagon pickup FLYS on that road... it's usually just you and the coyotes and ground squirrels anyway. 146 is the fastest this car... or I... have ever been- putting on sway bars in a couple weeks, see if it takes some of the high speed float feeling out.

I had OE sways at the time. The high speed "experiment" impressed me a lot: those humps on 95 didn't bother the Stinger at all: the faster she went the more hunkered down she felt: the design is very aerodynamically solid.

 

[MerlintheMad]

With time to burn this afternoon, I went out to do a Hot Wheels HCR hunt; decided Walmart first, then Smith and Edwards. Lo and behold, the very color I sought pulled in, in 1/1 "scale", and I got a couple of pics of it on my way inside. As I rifled through the third hanger, two or three back from the front, lo and behold, the very color (and the only Hot Wheels Stinger I had run across in any store till now). Feeling blessed, I found the real HCR in the parking lot and laid my acquisition on it for pics together. (At Smith and Edwards a few minutes later, I found a Blue Stinger, which I already have, but no HCR; I put the Blue back on a hanger in front, to help some potential Stinger owner find it easily.)

The mother and child in the HCR parked abominably: probably the dad loves this car; enough to rebadge it and keep it clean (and put a "Turbo" script over the GT on the hatch lid).

 

[DemianCush]

I had OE sways at the time. The high speed "experiment" impressed me a lot: those humps on 95 didn't bother the Stinger at all: the faster she went the more hunkered down she felt: the design is very aerodynamically solid.

Lol... yea, it may just be i scare my own self at speed.

 

[GPhenom]

Merged onto I-64 from I-270 right behind an HCR around 1:17 this afternoon. Starting to see more and more. Hopefully Kia is getting enough sales to keep cranking out Stingers but not enough so that you see them everywhere you go.

 

[ShannonC]

Stinger day at Pyrmont! Ceramic Grey next to me then Silky Silver on another level.

 

[WRXtoStingerGT]

Looks like Stingers are getting pretty popular in Australia!

 

[Nasscar]

Stinger day at Pyrmont! Ceramic Grey next to me then Silky Silver on another level.
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Must be a hive...

 

[RedCal]

Springtime and the Stingers are out! - Spotted 2 today... a Ghost Grey (Ceramic Silver) with M&S (or maybe Maxton) rear diffuser, and a Black or Thunder Grey (Panthera Metal)

 

[Shrike]

Stopped into McDonalds today for the first time in about a year and saw my first Stinger in a while.

 

[WRXtoStingerGT]

Stopped into McDonalds today for the first time in about a year and saw my first Stinger in a while.

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Shoulda bought him/her a happy meal!

 

[davebo]

Stopped into McDonalds today for the first time in about a year and saw my first Stinger in a while.

It's a Maryland Day miracle!

 

[7Andrei7]

 

[Intelliburn]

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Good use of your car camera to document ‘Stingers in the wild’

 

[Luminary]

On the way to Import Alliance, my friend took some amazing rolling shots. So while I did not see any in the wild during the 10 hour drive (crazy huh?), I was seen. This is my fav.

 

[vipeboy2000]

On the way to Import Alliance, my friend took some amazing rolling shots. So while I did not see any in the wild during the 10 hour drive (crazy huh?), I was seen. This is my fav.

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nice!!! i've been wanting to go to ia for some time.. beech bend is less than 2 hours from me! Just didn't realize it had already happened.... lol

 

[FIM-92]

Saw a blue Stinger with an E badge on the hood on my way to work this morning. Cheers!

 

[Luminary]

nice!!! i've been wanting to go to ia for some time.. beech bend is less than 2 hours from me! Just didn't realize it had already happened.... lol

Yup it was this past weekend in Bowling Green. Was a ton of fun, wish you could have joined. We spent Thursday night in TN at Opryland/Gaylord, then drove to IA on Friday.
There were only 4 Stingers representing. I hoped there would have been more.

A few random pics from the weekend:

 

[MerlintheMad]

Yup it was this past weekend in Bowling Green. Was a ton of fun, wish you could have joined. We spent Thursday night in TN at Opryland/Gaylord, then drove to IA on Friday.
There were only 4 Stingers representing. I hoped there would have been more.

A few random pics from the weekend:

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That bottom pic belongs in the Funny License Plate thread.

 

[davebo]

I'm honestly surprised there are so many Optima enthusiasts. And I say that as someone who's keeping his 2012 SX all 10 years of it's warranty. Nice cars!