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Kia Canada will only get about 200 Stingers for 2018, and they will surely have no trouble moving them. (JIM KENZIE / FOR THE TORONTO STAR)
By JIM KENZIE - Special to the Star - Sat., Oct. 21, 2017
Los Angeles-When I first drove the Kia Stinger sports sedan in Arjeplog, Sweden, this past winter, it felt pretty darned good. Then again, what car isn’t fun when you’re tossing it sideways on a frozen lake? How would it perform in the more-or-less real world of sunny California? Even if it was colder in California than it was in Toronto at the time ...
The answer, in a nutshell — pretty darned good. Stinger goes on sale later this year. Canadian pricing hasn’t been finalized yet, but in the U.S., it starts at $31,900, although that’s for a rear-wheel drive variant we don’t get back home. The best estimate they can give Canadians now is under $47,000 for the base car, $52,000 for the GT version.
Does that sound like a lot of money for a Kia? Maybe, but wait until you see how it compares with European brands, which cost up to twice as much. Stinger is at least partially the product of two German minds within one Korean car company. Kia’s president and chief ink thrower (more accurately these days, chief pixel manipulator) Peter Schreyer (ex-Audi/VW) has been messing with the concept of a sports sedan for a few years now, showing a prototype at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in 2011, styled by his European design chief, Gregory Guillaume.
The car was about halfway developed when Hyundai/Kia swiped Albert Biermann away from BMW’s M Division to be their high-performance development guru. Biermann said during the Northern Sweden program that he was pleasantly surprised by the technical talent the Korean company had amassed. All they needed was a bit of direction, some fine-tuning, to build very capable road cars.
So, here ya go. Continue reading...
Kia Canada will only get about 200 Stingers for 2018, and they will surely have no trouble moving them. (JIM KENZIE / FOR THE TORONTO STAR)
By JIM KENZIE - Special to the Star - Sat., Oct. 21, 2017
Los Angeles-When I first drove the Kia Stinger sports sedan in Arjeplog, Sweden, this past winter, it felt pretty darned good. Then again, what car isn’t fun when you’re tossing it sideways on a frozen lake? How would it perform in the more-or-less real world of sunny California? Even if it was colder in California than it was in Toronto at the time ...
The answer, in a nutshell — pretty darned good. Stinger goes on sale later this year. Canadian pricing hasn’t been finalized yet, but in the U.S., it starts at $31,900, although that’s for a rear-wheel drive variant we don’t get back home. The best estimate they can give Canadians now is under $47,000 for the base car, $52,000 for the GT version.
Does that sound like a lot of money for a Kia? Maybe, but wait until you see how it compares with European brands, which cost up to twice as much. Stinger is at least partially the product of two German minds within one Korean car company. Kia’s president and chief ink thrower (more accurately these days, chief pixel manipulator) Peter Schreyer (ex-Audi/VW) has been messing with the concept of a sports sedan for a few years now, showing a prototype at the Frankfurt Motor Show back in 2011, styled by his European design chief, Gregory Guillaume.
The car was about halfway developed when Hyundai/Kia swiped Albert Biermann away from BMW’s M Division to be their high-performance development guru. Biermann said during the Northern Sweden program that he was pleasantly surprised by the technical talent the Korean company had amassed. All they needed was a bit of direction, some fine-tuning, to build very capable road cars.
So, here ya go. Continue reading...
