Kia Stinger
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The Stinger surpasses expectations: it's time to start thinking of Kia in a completely new light.
Kia isn’t renowned for creating emotive automobiles. Reliability, value and quality have formed the foundations on which the Korean carmaker has flourished over the past decade. With cars like the Soul, the brand started to become likeable, but when the GT Concept bowed at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Kia demonstrated it had the potential to create a car buyers would love. Six years later and the car we called the star of the Detroit 2017 will be sitting in showrooms before the year is out. This is a big deal for Kia, but the early signs are good. Very good in fact.
Kia has received some 25,000 KMIs three months ahead of schedule, and is now aiming for 50,000 by the time the Super Bowl comes around. Without any evidence of how the car drives, that response is almost exclusively a result of the Stinger’s elegant, easy-on-the-eye design. Another Peter Schreyer special. Scratch that: the German auto designer call it his best ever work. Reviews of how the car drives have been trickling in over the past month or so. Having initially unleashed the Stinger at the Nurburgring to a select few, we had the chance to sample the goods in Los Angeles, spending a day with the gorgeous grand tourer cruising around North Hollywood and pushing it hard on the Angeles Crest Highway en route to Six Flags.
Kia announced the final specs and pricing for the Stinger in the product brief prior to our round trip to Magic Mountain. Headline figures include a 0-60 mph time of 4.7 seconds – down from the 5.4 seconds the Stinger was capable of back in January – a top speed of 167 mph, and a base price of $31,900. Read the full story...
Kia isn’t renowned for creating emotive automobiles. Reliability, value and quality have formed the foundations on which the Korean carmaker has flourished over the past decade. With cars like the Soul, the brand started to become likeable, but when the GT Concept bowed at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show, Kia demonstrated it had the potential to create a car buyers would love. Six years later and the car we called the star of the Detroit 2017 will be sitting in showrooms before the year is out. This is a big deal for Kia, but the early signs are good. Very good in fact.
Kia has received some 25,000 KMIs three months ahead of schedule, and is now aiming for 50,000 by the time the Super Bowl comes around. Without any evidence of how the car drives, that response is almost exclusively a result of the Stinger’s elegant, easy-on-the-eye design. Another Peter Schreyer special. Scratch that: the German auto designer call it his best ever work. Reviews of how the car drives have been trickling in over the past month or so. Having initially unleashed the Stinger at the Nurburgring to a select few, we had the chance to sample the goods in Los Angeles, spending a day with the gorgeous grand tourer cruising around North Hollywood and pushing it hard on the Angeles Crest Highway en route to Six Flags.
Kia announced the final specs and pricing for the Stinger in the product brief prior to our round trip to Magic Mountain. Headline figures include a 0-60 mph time of 4.7 seconds – down from the 5.4 seconds the Stinger was capable of back in January – a top speed of 167 mph, and a base price of $31,900. Read the full story...
