Kia Australia Says Stinger Will not Be Canceled Anytime Quickly

Rumors that Kia is about to cancel the Stinger have been popping up for some time. And it’s probably not stunning. A rear-wheel-drive liftback sedan doesn’t actually match cleanly into Kia’s lineup even when it’s a implausible automobile. So, it will make sense for Kia to kill it off. However now it sounds just like the Stinger could be sticking round for the foreseeable future.

Following the newest iteration of “Stinger’s getting the axe” rumors, Australia’s CarSales spoke to Roland Rivero, the top of Kia Australia. He claims no official resolution to finish manufacturing has been made and appeared that Kia plans to maintain promoting the Stinger for some time.

“Nobody from HQ [in Seoul, Korea] has made any official bulletins. It’s enterprise as common for the Kia Stinger,” mentioned Rivero. “From our perspective it’s wonderful for Korean media retailers to take a position, however we haven’t heard something of that nature. We’ll hold promoting it and it’s enterprise as common till we hear in any other case from our HQ.”

That mentioned, it additionally feels like Kia most likely gained’t redesign the Stinger or change it with an electrical successor. Which is disappointing to listen to as a result of, once more, the Stinger is implausible, and an electrical model would most likely be fairly cool.

“I’d wish to suppose nearly each EV on our E-GMP can be considerably of a halo car for us anyway,” Rivero mentioned. He later added, “However is there one automobile that’s going to be an absolute alternative? I don’t suppose so. We will undoubtedly supply future merchandise which have the identical character and identical driver enjoyment as present ICE fashions.”

So Kia nonetheless has plans to construct fun-to-drive automobiles, however we most likely gained’t see an electrical liftback sport sedan be a part of Kia’s lineup. Then once more, that would simply be for Australia. We’ve reached out to Kia to seek out out if Rivero’s statements apply to the U.S., as effectively, and we’ll replace this put up once we hear again.