Kia Stinger GT - First Test!

[Bamm1]

http://www.motortrend.com/cars/kia/stinger/2018/2018-kia-stinger-gt-first-test-review/

Old school "Buick" ride quality. Very interesting.

Not liking the turbo lag comments and the broken power steering (though the car was preproduction).

Overall very good showing for Kia. Seems to fit the "GT" moniker very well.

 

[jwhollan]

The negatives in this review (and there were very few of them), didn't really bother me much because I don't plan on making a track career with this car... It seems to get some amazing marks when it comes to real world driving. This review has me even more excited.

 

[TomTom26]

Hi.

He get an "old" model, maybe preproduction, to test.
Look at the Front-Cupholders on the Pictures - no cover to close when not in use.
Also no LED-Blinker in the Taillights - the final Stinger GT have it.
We have to wait till October/November when "real" customers get their car and test it.

 

[Bamm1]

Hi.

He get an "old" model, maybe preproduction, to test.
Look at the Front-Cupholders on the Pictures - no cover to close when not in use.
Also no LED-Blinker in the Taillights - the final Stinger GT have it.
We have to wait till October/November when "real" customers get their car and test it.

Yes, they mention that very fact in the article "Kia’s press cars at the moment are all preproduction prototypes."

There may be a performance increase for the final sorted out production model. I for one would welcome that. But I wouldn't get my hopes up. Kia's marketing department knows full well that these "test" articles in the big name magazines (C&D, MT) help move product with the enthusiast customer. So it wouldn't make sense to let them test a car that isn't putting their "best foot forward" (re: is slower than the production model).

 

[moinmoin]

The way I read Motortrend's assessment, it appears to me that this car is a fast, comfortable, long distance cruiser, that is able to hold it's own when passing and running the corners. This is what I am looking for, as long I have no problems with ingress and egress....

 

[AJL13]

I know that skidpad measurements don't tell the whole story in regards to handling, but that 0.85 is quite disappointing when you take into account that some of the more performance-oriented SUVs are better in that department. Hopefully the full production finished product will have less body roll....looks like that 4K lb curb weight is here to stay though. Bummer.

 

[davebo]

Yeah isn't an Optima SX at like 0.83?

 

[srtcrazy05]

well there is this...

"We’ve driven prototypes at an overseas R & D complex, on a frozen Swedish lake, and on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Now, finally, we’ve driven a production-spec 2018 Kia Stinger GT on real roads and to our own Auto Club Speedway test track. How does it fare against the German luxury sedans against which it will undoubtedly be compared?"

 

[srtcrazy05]

but then there is this...

"Kia’s press cars at the moment are all preproduction prototypes, and the first car they gave us suffered a power steering failure and had to be replaced."

 

[TomTom26]

Believe it:not the final car.. .
Every full equipped Stinger GT is the same all over the world.
And this trim has everything you can get for the Stinger.

 

[Ecobust]

but then there is this...

"Kia’s press cars at the moment are all preproduction prototypes, and the first car they gave us suffered a power steering failure and had to be replaced."

f*ck it; edited for the semantics nazis.

 

[davebo]

They're saying the first tester was a production model, that suffered a failure; the replacement tester, since it's all Kia has to offer, was a pre-pro model.

That doesn't sound promising if the production models are more failure-prone than the test units.

 

[TomTom26]

You think really they give them a production model before release?
Nothing else get one before october/november...
I think: hope was the father of thougts...
But they get at first a pre-production,too.
Who want to read once more about a preproduction?
Everybody wants to read about a street driving model and so you look to the article and they get clicks for nothing...

 

[Bamm1]

They're saying the first tester was a production model, that suffered a failure; the replacement tester, since it's all Kia has to offer, was a pre-pro model.

"Production-spec" was not referring to a car that rolled off the assembly line. It means the car was fitted with a US suspension set up (dampers, springs, sway bars, etc.). So it should "drive" like the production model will. Therefore driving impressions will apply to what you can buy off the dealer lot. The other car they drove post breakdown had a non-US suspension set up (i.e. not production-spec for the US). BOTH cars are pre-production.

 

[Kalins]

Kia dealer video on Youtube -

 

[TomTom26]

This Video is very bad (IMO).
To fast changes of the perspective, to much Driver "blabla", at last the Color of the car...
Who served the camera?
A Camera Operator from the 60s who use first time color film????
No brilliance everywhere, just dull.
Newcomer see the Video and think: boring car, not for me...