New Stinger GT Commercial

[westcoastGT]

 

[MerlintheMad]

"...the 2018 Kia Stinger." New to me, though.
Breaking the rear end loose between narrow rows of pillars is just stupid. But it looks cool.

 

[westcoastGT]

"...the 2018 Kia Stinger." New to me, though.
Breaking the rear end loose between narrow rows of pillars is just stupid. But it looks cool.

it was just posted , I'm just the messenger ................the things Kia makes me do for such little pay !!

 

[TwiceStung]

“ Professional Driver on closed course. Drive responsibly. “ lol

 

[cncBilly]

it was just posted , I'm just the messenger ................the things Kia makes me do for such little pay !!

What ya mean little pay. They're rebuilding your car piece by piece for you!

 

[Cashie]

Nice commercial. Reminds me of the old school 300Z ones.

 

[Manaz]

There's no way in hell such an ad would be allowed on TV in Australia. There'd be too much of an uproar about dangerous driving (thanks to Harold Scruby, mostly, though a bunch of wowsers would be sure to complain bitterly).

It's also quite an odd ad for the Stinger, which is (apparently) marketed as a GT, not a sports car. I'll be experiencing the GT aspect tomorrow (driving to/from Canberra, which is a 560km (350mile) round trip).

 

[CKeeler]

I want my stock car to sound like the 10 second mark

 

[MerlintheMad]

I want my stock car to sound like the 10 second mark

It does: you just have to put your head under the hood (cheating with the mic ).

 

[CKeeler]

I was talking more along the exhaust blip at that point.

 

[P22Tyler]

I saw my first Stinger commercial since the Super Bowl launch ad, last night. It was a Stinger on a snowy road, it was touting the AWD system and showed the car sliding around having some fun.

 

[Jklotz]

I still don't get why Kia is not doing more advertising for this car. Most folks still don't even know it exists.

 

[westcoastGT]

I still don't get why Kia is not doing more advertising for this car. Most folks still don't even know it exists.

better spenT money on the internet , digital is the where all the eye balls are now ( imho )

 

[P22Tyler]

better spenT money on the internet , digital is the where all the eye balls are now ( imho )

I don't see much online advertising either, and a lot of online ads are driven by your interests so the fact I'm not seeing them tells me not many others are either.

 

[MerlintheMad]

I still don't get why Kia is not doing more advertising for this car. Most folks still don't even know it exists.

Slight difference: most people who don't shop Kia don't know the Stinger exists. The Telluride has become the best advertisement for the Stinger. Anyone interested in the Telluride (a lot of people) will bump into the Stinger by association. Those who like performance sedans, and the look of 60s and 70s Gran Turismo Italian-style, will flash on the Stinger: and the Stinger's "street cred" will reflect well on the Telluride. Whether the Telluride purchaser will also get a Stinger is the open question; now or later, or wishful thinking only?

 

[Nasscar]

Slight difference: most people who don't shop Kia don't know the Stinger exists. The Telluride has become the best advertisement for the Stinger. Anyone interested in the Telluride (a lot of people) will bump into the Stinger by association. Those who like performance sedans, and the look of 60s and 70s Gran Turismo Italian-style, will flash on the Stinger: and the Stinger's "street cred" will reflect well on the Telluride. Whether the Telluride purchaser will also get a Stinger is the open question; now or later, or wishful thinking only?

Unfortunately that doesn't help Stinger sales in Australia. No Tellurides downunder.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Unfortunately that doesn't help Stinger sales in Australia. No Tellurides downunder.

You've got that "other" SUV instead: isn't it popular "down there" like the Telluride is up here?

 

[Nasscar]

You've got that "other" SUV instead: isn't it popular "down there" like the Telluride is up here?

Do you mean the Seltos??

 

[P22Tyler]

Unfortunately that doesn't help Stinger sales in Australia. No Tellurides downunder.

Yeah, if their marketing plan for the Stinger is to hope people bump into it while looking at their SUV, then it's a very poor one. The sports sedan is already selling less and less, odds are the person looking at the Telluride is not going to be interested in a sports sedan.

 

[MerlintheMad]

Do you mean the Seltos??

Yes, that's the one. Spacing the name, I was. (It's still early.)

Yeah, if their marketing plan for the Stinger is to hope people bump into it while looking at their SUV, then it's a very poor one. The sports sedan is already selling less and less, odds are the person looking at the Telluride is not going to be interested in a sports sedan.

"Marketing plan". Heh. Who knows what Kia's marketing plans are? It's obvious that Kia economized on advertising the Stinger. My pet theory is that Kia knows that pushing the Stinger harder will not convince anyone who isn't already considering a high performance sedan. So Kia pushed the Stinger into the interested hands of car enthusiasts: and they wrote glowing reports into car buff magazines: and each driver who gets even one car enthusiast publication is going to see Stinger advertising, but more importantly, the reports on the car from other enthusiasts. This has been going on since 2017. And now the Telluride comes out, attracting a lot more attention in the general public than the excitement of car enthusiasts: and there sits the Stinger alongside the Telluride, showing that the SUV is made by people who know how to design cars: the Stinger is proof of that. It's a subtle plan, to have two very different models pointing back at each other.