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Nothing particularly new here (except the "jaw drop" comment, nice) but the pictures look amazing in this review, I wonder where this was?
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http://bilogmotorbloggen.blogspot.com/2017/06/nyheter-kia-stinger.html
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We have to wait until the fall before we get to try Kias new driving machine, but a viewing copy was recently a trip to Norway. We took a closer look.
Stuff like that is cool, right? In the midst of EVs, charging hybrids and grasping for lower consumption and emissions, making Kia something completely different. They come with a new rear wheel drive sports sedan with twin-turbo V6 of 370 horses. Not instead of electric cars and hybrids, but in addition to. We like it!
Stinger was shown in Detroit in winter and at Geneva Motor Show this spring, but there was not. Therefore, it was interesting to get a close look at the car when it was stopped by the visit to Norway a short while ago.
Now I see a whole bunch new cars every year, and it is not always one is impressed. This time, I got, however, a tiny jaw dropped.
With Optima wagon in mind (it went from being a sick raw concept, to be a very nice, but still quite normal station wagon), I thought Stinger was perhaps not quite so raw in reality as in the pictures. There I therefore incorrect.
The hood is really big, and it's flat and sits fit high. The rear end is a kind of mixture of Jaguar and Optima from the side. When Stinger In addition, low and wide, it is simply proper bold. You realize somehow that this is something out of the ordinary.
It also seems quite large, almost bigger than it actually is. Certainly because it is so low and wide. In reality corresponds to the length of 4.83 a Ford Mondeo - that is roughly 20 cm longer than a BMW 3 Series, but 10 cm shorter than the 5 Series.
The platform shared with the Hyundai and Kia premium brand Genesis - they make the rear-wheel drive cars. The main engine is a 3.3-liter petrol V6 with twin turbos and 370 horsepower. With a total of 510 Nm of torque, taking the horse to 100 km / h of 5.1 seconds and tops 270 km / h.
More popular varieties will also come, as I understand it, from the start now to fall. A new 2.2-liter diesel with 200 hp and 440 Nm will probably fit Norwegian charges the least bad, and a 2-liter gasoline turbo with 260 horses will be available.
All come with 8-speed automatic, and you can get all-wheel drive if you want.
The most exciting with Stinger, we know little about so far: How it is to run. Just what I've actually abnormally high expectations. Kia employees last year a guy named Albert Biermann. He was previously responsible for the development of cars at BMW M. Rumor has it that he has had more than a hand in the completion and testing of the Stinger. Exciting to see what it could mean.
What it is going to cost in Norway, we know nothing about, but I'm guessing we're talking a price level that can make Stinger competitive against premium brands, and probably put it on par with upcoming VW Arteon and Opel Insignia (with the biggest engine in the two Germans).
By what I've seen so far, it would not be so wrong. I noted among other things that the interior, next to having cool design, seemed to have higher finish and more expensive materials than any Kia I've been in the past.
The next chapter is going to fall!
(translated below)
http://bilogmotorbloggen.blogspot.com/2017/06/nyheter-kia-stinger.html
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We have to wait until the fall before we get to try Kias new driving machine, but a viewing copy was recently a trip to Norway. We took a closer look.
Stuff like that is cool, right? In the midst of EVs, charging hybrids and grasping for lower consumption and emissions, making Kia something completely different. They come with a new rear wheel drive sports sedan with twin-turbo V6 of 370 horses. Not instead of electric cars and hybrids, but in addition to. We like it!
Stinger was shown in Detroit in winter and at Geneva Motor Show this spring, but there was not. Therefore, it was interesting to get a close look at the car when it was stopped by the visit to Norway a short while ago.
Now I see a whole bunch new cars every year, and it is not always one is impressed. This time, I got, however, a tiny jaw dropped.
With Optima wagon in mind (it went from being a sick raw concept, to be a very nice, but still quite normal station wagon), I thought Stinger was perhaps not quite so raw in reality as in the pictures. There I therefore incorrect.
The hood is really big, and it's flat and sits fit high. The rear end is a kind of mixture of Jaguar and Optima from the side. When Stinger In addition, low and wide, it is simply proper bold. You realize somehow that this is something out of the ordinary.
It also seems quite large, almost bigger than it actually is. Certainly because it is so low and wide. In reality corresponds to the length of 4.83 a Ford Mondeo - that is roughly 20 cm longer than a BMW 3 Series, but 10 cm shorter than the 5 Series.
The platform shared with the Hyundai and Kia premium brand Genesis - they make the rear-wheel drive cars. The main engine is a 3.3-liter petrol V6 with twin turbos and 370 horsepower. With a total of 510 Nm of torque, taking the horse to 100 km / h of 5.1 seconds and tops 270 km / h.
More popular varieties will also come, as I understand it, from the start now to fall. A new 2.2-liter diesel with 200 hp and 440 Nm will probably fit Norwegian charges the least bad, and a 2-liter gasoline turbo with 260 horses will be available.
All come with 8-speed automatic, and you can get all-wheel drive if you want.
The most exciting with Stinger, we know little about so far: How it is to run. Just what I've actually abnormally high expectations. Kia employees last year a guy named Albert Biermann. He was previously responsible for the development of cars at BMW M. Rumor has it that he has had more than a hand in the completion and testing of the Stinger. Exciting to see what it could mean.
What it is going to cost in Norway, we know nothing about, but I'm guessing we're talking a price level that can make Stinger competitive against premium brands, and probably put it on par with upcoming VW Arteon and Opel Insignia (with the biggest engine in the two Germans).
By what I've seen so far, it would not be so wrong. I noted among other things that the interior, next to having cool design, seemed to have higher finish and more expensive materials than any Kia I've been in the past.
The next chapter is going to fall!
