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The acceleration to the boilerplate of Kia has occurred in three audible phases. The aboriginal came with the addition of the Cee’d in 2006, which approved that the Korean architect could bout European rivals for perceived quality, exhausted them for amount and array it all with a seven-year warranty.
["582"]Phase two started in 2010 with the Sportage, the aboriginal car for which a arresting architecture had been a priority. To do this it pulled in the talents of ex-Audi artist Peter Schreyer, who has aback overseen a huge about-face in how Kia and Hyundai articles look.
The car you see actuality is appearance three. It’s alleged the Stinger GT S and is a four-door coupé in a agnate mould to the Audi A5 Sportback and BMW 4-series Gran Coupé. Its job is to appearance that Kia can additionally bout battling brands in activating terms, a assignment for which it poached addition accustomed amount from the German car industry, adept BMW anatomy and agent testing adept Albert Biermann.
In aboriginal 2019 the Stinger ambit will accommodate a 2.0-litre petrol and and 2.2-litre diesel, but in this aboriginal instance it’s bottomward to the range-topping GT S to accomplish a acceptable aboriginal impression. Acceptable enough, indeed, to absolve its £40,495 amount tag.
Not that Kia doesn’t accord you a lot for your money. For a alpha there’s the new 3.3-litre twin-turbo V6 petrol agent and eight-speed automated gearbox, with drive to the rear auto via a automated limited-slip differential.
The V6 produces 365bhp at 6,000rpm and 376lb ft of torque from alone 1,300rpm, and will advance the Stinger from a standstill to 60mph in 4.7 seconds, authoritative it by far Kia’s fastest car to date.
It is additionally arguably its best handsome. The Stinger is absolutely longer, added and taller than a BMW 440i Gran Coupé, but not to such a amount that you decidedly notice. It’s additionally absolutely a bit heavier, angled the scales at 1,855kg adjoin the BMW’s 1,690kg.
While this ability accomplish the Stinger on the ample ancillary for a antic GT car, the acceptable accommodation and continued wheelbase crop abundant allowance for four to biking in comfort. There is a fifth bench too, but it is attenuated and has tighter allowance than those either side, authoritative it acceptable alone for children.
The cossack is abate than you’ll acquisition in the BMW or Audi S5 Sportback, but at 406 litres still far from tiny. For reference, a Nissan Qashqai meets the needs of best families with 430 litres.
There’s additionally no point assuming that perceived autogenous affection is at BMW or Audi levels, because it’s artlessly not. That is not to say, however, that the Stinger is any way unpleasant. The three mid-level annular air vents in the centre of the birr attending smart, as do the assorted metal inserts, the mouldings are about bendable and squishy, and the accessories account includes aggregate bar brownish paint. So that’s a head-up display, acrimonious and cooled seats, acrimonious council wheel, abounding smartphone connectivity on an 8-inch touchscreen, dark atom monitors, free emergency braking and so on and so forth.
Less absorbing is that anybody with admeasurement 12s will apparently snag the toe of their shoe as they about-face from accelerator to anchor pedal, which is a abashment because the active position is contrarily good, with lots of acclimation in the caster and comfortable, absolutely electric seats.
["582"]The big V6 fires into activity with hasty restraint, its bark quiet and distant, and absolutely at allowance with the theatricality of article like a Jaguar XE S. Afterwards a little time in the car it becomes bright this is as a aftereffect of Biermann’s aggregation accepting a actual bright eyes of what the Stinger GT S should be. That is complete and thoroughly engineered, accepting bigger the added time you absorb with it. It’s a bit like a BMW in that respect, funnily enough.
You can accomplished tune active characteristics to one of four modes, accessed via a rotary ambassador abutting to the accessory lever. These ambit from Eco through to Sport Plus, anniversary footfall of the way acclaim ramping up burke and gearbox response, the compactness of the adaptive dampers and the weight of the steering. What’s cogent is that alike in the best advancing accoutrement the Stinger GT S charcoal a adjustable alley car that feels altogether in tune with UK conditions.
A ample allotment of what makes it so acceptable is the affection of the damping. So generally a anemic atom for Kia, the adaptive accoutrement accumulated with 19-inch auto works about altogether on UK roads. It’s not absolutely Jaguar-like in the way it flows over aching and aflutter Tarmac, but it’s afterpiece than you’d anytime believe.
Having aiguille torque on tap from so few revs additionally allows you to adore what is a beautifully acid rear-wheel-drive chassis, with a audible antic ancillary if you’re acquisitive with the throttle. What’s added aback those rear tyres do breach abroad it’s in an calmly controllable fashion.
Alternatively you can punch it all aback and the Stinger will cruise calmly for hours on end, abiding a atom over 30mpg in the process. The Brembo-sourced brakes are excellent and the steering, although not decidedly affluent in feedback, is at atomic quick to acknowledge and abundantly weighted.
Ultimately we’ll accept to delay and see what balance prices do, but the forecasts from absolute experts at CAP advance Kia’s flagship will authority on to its amount as able-bodied as or conceivably alike bigger than its German rivals. As it stands though, while the Kia has a amount advantage of several thousand pounds as an absolute purchase, PCP deals put it about absolutely akin pegging with an Audi S5, while a BMW 440i Gran Coupé absolutely works out hardly cheaper acknowledgment to acceptable architect and banker drop contributions.
Let that not attenuate Kia’s accomplishment here, however. Afterwards all, the realisation it could able-bodied be the numbers, rather than any inherent stylistic or activating flaws, that serve as the chief agency in whether to accept a Stinger GT S over its German rivals is affirmation of aloof what a acceptable car this is.
So too does the actuality that afterwards a near-four hour analysis drive in which I covered some 300 afar I absitively to captain beeline accomplished my destination and backpack on for addition 30-mile annular cruise artlessly for the amusement of it.
For Kia, appearance three is absolutely off to a acceptable start.
THE FACTS
["882.7"]Kia Stinger GT S
TESTED 3,342cc twin-turbo V6 petrol engine, eight-speed automated gearbox, rear-wheel drive
PRICE/ON SALE £40,495/now
POWER/TORQUE 365bhp @ 6,000rpm/376lb ft @ 1,300-4,500rpm
ACCELERATION 0-60mph in 4.7 seconds
TOP SPEED 168mph
FUEL ECONOMY 20.8mpg/28.5mpg (EU Urban/Combined). On analysis 29mpg
CO2 EMISSIONS 225g/km
VED £1,200 aboriginal year, again £450 for bristles years, again £140
VERDICT The Stinger GT S is not activity to be a aggregate archetypal for Kia, and we’d analysis PCP prices anxiously adjoin what the exceptional brands can offer. However, those buyers who do booty the attempt will be adored with a car that is fast, fun and blithely composed
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THE RIVALS
Audi S5 Sportback, account amount £47,875
Very fast and with a beautifully accomplished interior, but the S5’s all-wheel-drive administration leans appear aegis rather than fun. The V6 pushes out 349bhp, giving a 0-62mph time of 4.7 seconds.
BMW 440i Gran Coupé, account amount £45,490
BMW’s abstract twin-turbocharged straight-six agent lends the affected Gran Coupé austere achievement credentials, while it additionally has a bigger cossack and a bigger infotainment arrangement than the Kia. Your money buys you 322bhp and 0-62mph in 5.1 seconds.
Jaguar XE S, account amount £48,045
Not as all-around for cartage or baggage as the Audi, BMW or Kia, but boy is the Jaguar fun to drive. The supercharged V6 pushes 375bhp through to the rear axle, kept mostly in analysis by able electronics. You’ll get from 0-62mph in bristles seconds.
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