Kia Stinger Reportedly To Be Discontinued

Nothing gold can keep. Robert Frost knew it. Ponyboy knew it. And lovers of superb rear-wheel-drive sport sedans with room for the household however attitudes for monitor day and reasonably priced costs realize it. The Kia Stinger was too good to final.

A report out of South Korea’s Auto Instances says the least predictable automotive constructed by a mainstream automaker in years will stop manufacturing in April.

The Stinger is a ardour mission for Kia. It’s a rear-wheel-drive (non-obligatory all-wheel-drive) sport sedan with household dwelling 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 an 8-speed automated transmission.

And if these sound just like the stats of a European sport sedan, then you definitely perceive why the Stinger has at all times been such an oddity. It’s a real 4-door efficiency automotive from an reasonably priced automaker, sporting the type of identify automobiles wore within the 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 in the marketplace. And it isn’t promoting notably nicely — Kia says it’s promoting at about half of final yr’s tempo by the primary three quarters.

That, reviews say, could also be sufficient to finish a ardour mission. Kia has not but responded to our makes an attempt to substantiate the reviews.

But when the Stinger is gone, we should always be aware, that doesn’t imply Kia has given up on producing automobiles able to efficiency you don’t anticipate within the reasonably priced courses. The quickest model of its new EV6 electrical automotive, the EV6 GT, boasts 576 horsepower and a 0-60 mph time of simply 3.5 seconds.