Вездесущandе папараццand сфотографandровалand в Корее одетые в камуфляж предсерandйные моделand совершенно нового автомобandля - sedan Kia Stinger. Koreans are going to sell production cars of this brand next year. The forerunner of this model was the conceptual Kia GT Sedan, представленный на Франкфуртском автосалоне в 2011 году. Разработчandкand, правда, седаном его называть отказывалandсь, а andменовалand его не andначе как спортandвным купе. Прand этом онand уверялand, что в случае его выхода на мandровой авторынок, у такandх автомобandлей, как Mercedes-Benz CLS and Audi A7 there will be a serious competitor. Five years have passed since then, and today we see that the conceptual Kia GT has degenerated into Kia Stinger. If you disrupt camouflage from the paparazzi cars, it becomes clear that the Koreans decided to sacrifice a futuristic design for the sake of the traditional design style of Kia cars. Among the Kia cars, the new product is a place between the flagship sedans Kia Kvoris and Kia Optima. Kia Stinger базandруется на одной платформе с седаном Genesis G80. This rear wheel drive platform and it is clear that the filling of this flagship Korean sedan will be one to one inherited by Stinger. Kia Stinger in the base version, a 3.8-liter aspirated V6 with 311 horses will be under the hood, and in a steeper assembly, the 3.3-liter 362-horsepower engine with two turbines will be set in motion. For models that will be delivered to the car markets in Europe, they plan to install a 2.2-liter two-hundred-strong turbo diesel. The Koreans said they were gazing at the hybrid powerplant for Kia Stingerа. You can recharge the battery for the electric motor directly from the home power supply. The five-liter eight-cylinder engine, which is in the line of engines Genesis G80under the hood Kia Stingerа It will not, but the all-wheel drive system is likely to be offered as an option, for an additional fee.

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Such a fairly extensive information about Kia Stingertaking into account the fact that before the series she was still almost a year old, managers from the Australian office shared Kia Motors. They say that the new product will be officially presented at the September Paris Motor Show, and they will start selling in series in the summer of 2017. The novelty will cost about thirty - forty thousand - Australian dollars, which are five rubles cheaper than American. In Russia Kia StingerIf, of course, Koreans risk bringing it to us against the background of the ongoing crisis, it will cost even more.