Nothing gold can keep. Robert Frost knew it. Ponyboy knew it. And lovers of wonderful rear-wheel-drive sport sedans with room for the household however attitudes for monitor day and reasonably priced costs understand it. The Kia Stinger was too good to final.
A report out of South Korea’s Auto Occasions says the least predictable automobile constructed by a mainstream automaker in years will stop manufacturing in April.
The Stinger is a ardour challenge for Kia. It’s a rear-wheel-drive (non-compulsory all-wheel-drive) sport sedan with household residing house and dealing with that makes the Audi A5 Sportback and BMW 4 Sequence Gran Coupe nervous.
It options both a 300-horsepower turbocharged 4-cylinder engine or a 368-horsepower 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6. Energy goes by way of an 8-speed automated transmission.
And if these sound just like the stats of a European sport sedan, you then perceive why the Stinger has all the time been such an oddity. It’s a real 4-door efficiency automobile from an reasonably priced automaker, carrying the sort of identify automobiles wore within the Nineteen Seventies.
It begins at simply $36,590, plus $1,105 delivery and dealing with — far lower than most sedans of comparable efficiency.
There’s nothing else fairly prefer it available on the market. And it isn’t promoting significantly properly — Kia says it’s promoting at about half of final 12 months’s tempo by way of the primary three quarters.
That, reviews say, could also be sufficient to finish a ardour challenge. Kia has not but responded to our makes an attempt to substantiate the reviews.
But when the Stinger is gone, we should always observe, that doesn’t imply Kia has given up on producing automobiles able to efficiency you don’t count on within the reasonably priced lessons. The quickest model of its new EV6 electrical automobile, the EV6 GT, boasts 576 horsepower and a 0-60 mph time of simply 3.5 seconds.
