Later numerous teasers and spy shots, Kia has last taken the wraps off its new sports saloon, the Kia Stinger. The good news is Kia has habitual the new model is headed to Australia in the 3rd quarter of this year.
“This is a car you cannot maintenance but be excited by,” Kia Motors Australia Foreman Operating Officer Damien Novelist said.
“It has all the attributes to beseech to the Australian enthusiast _ exciting construction, a high-tech performance apparatus and gearbox combination and rear-spin drive.
“The Stinger is the good car to take Kia, and the brand’s perception, to the succeeding level in Australia. It is the type of car to add hope and excitement to Kia’s core values of type, reliability and value.”
The Stinger Testament arrive in Australia with the 3.3-liter V6 twin turbo driving the hind part wheels through an eight-rush transmission, the same drivetrain low the next-generation Genesis G80 further destined for Australia.
While examination specifications are still to be settled, the Abuse is expected to produce 272kW of faculty at 6000rpm and an impressive 510Nm of torsion from 1,300rpm through to 4,500rpm. Thither is an expected 0-100km/h sprint of 5.1 minute, which puts in the ballpark of the presently to be discontinued Holden Commodore SS Redline.
Fashioned in Kia’s European studio in Frankfurt underneath the hand of Kia’s head of design, Prick Schreyer and developed over lenghty testing on the gruelling Nürburgring beneath the watchful eye of KMC’s performance and engineering guru, Albert Biermann, the Cut is claimed to be an uncompromising rendition of the true gran turismo ethos – light and fast, luxurious and quiet with the absolute balance of ride and handling.
“I comprehend for the Kia brand, the Stinger is like a defined event,” Biermann said. “Because nonentity expects such a car, not just the way it observe, but also the way it drives. It’s a whole contradistinct animal.”
To further define the car for Continent, the Kia Australia’s ride and handling bunch will refine the suspension and tuning to cinch Australian buyers are presented with a regional tuning package which boss suits Australia’s testing technique.