In many ways it’s nothing like the Stinger. But is it a successor to the Stinger in a traditional sense? Truthfully, no, not in the way F80 followed E92 in M3 land. After all, isn’t that the remit of a halo car?Īnd a halo car it certainly remains. This is a car the engineers have enjoyed getting close to the limits of in terms of hardware capability. Is there a bit of heart missing? That’s a claim you’ll struggle to substantiate once you’ve pushed the ‘GT’ button, which tightens up the suspension – to a borderline unpleasant degree for road use – makes the steering scalpel-sharp and gives you neck-snapping throttle response. It does improve objectively on the Stinger in many ways, however, with improved cabin quality, vastly more advanced tech and objectively, performance that will humble some supercars. It’s higher up, it’s possessed of a sturdier driving position, it replaces strong and stable speed with a monumental shove and just doesn’t have that traditional sense of style, good-looking though it may be for what it is. If you’re wedded to the way the Stinger goes about its business – its feel that’s as low-slung as its form, the lazy but faithful chassis, the quietly confident V6 mill, the predictable, adjustable and playful rear-end, the cocoon-ish cabin – then the EV6 will at first feel a little foreign to you. In short, the Stinger is what came before and the EV6 is a taste of things to come. The EV6 is a full 200PS up on the Stinger, it’s electric, it’s a lift-back coupe SUV type thing, whereby the Stinger is a relatively traditional twin-turbocharged, V6, business in the front party in the back sports saloon, albeit with a svelte coupe belt and roofline. And truly, for what Kia says is a lineage of sorts, there’s a lot to contrast.
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