Migrated from stinger gt2 to ev6 gt, I'm noticing a few other stinger owners doing the same. Love the stinger, but the ev6 made it feel like some kind of heritage novelty.
Great review. I run a Stinger 3.3 V6 and it works for me. There will be a tipping point in the future, where every motorway service station has 16 fast charging points for EVs, and a couple of petrol pumps for legacy ICE cars. That tipping point is not here today.
I wouldn't say it's redundant with a $15-$30k price difference, the V6 still makes sense for entry level models like the Sorento or something but RIP Stinger, I wish they would've gave it a refresh before axing it out completely.
Yes all very well the EV is quick. But drive it flat out for what - 20mins? And the battery will be flat then you have the park for best part of an hour waiting for the bloody thing to charge. Challenge you to a 400 mile race across country no motorway services and see which one gets to the end first. Clue - it won’t be the electric.
With the kia EV6, you can drive 1,000 km in under 10 hours. So it's not that much slower than ICE vehicles, and there are more efficient cars on the market.
@@Dqtube so, an average speed of 100 kph... On a closed circuit. I'm having trouble thinking of a single ICE passenger sedan that cannot easily match and beat that. Heck, I personally own a 20 year old I4 Toyota Camry that can do 1000 km in 8.5 hrs...with only a single refueling stop. Been there, done that several times.
@@martindinner3621 Who's talking about a closed circuit? That's time off the public roads from @bjornnyland. He's been doing this type of testing for years. As I can see you are always in a hurry, but for a similarly long trip I personally prefer to have at least one longer stop to replenish energy rather than eating while driving and peeing in a bottle or using diapers. Year by year the times for this use case are getting closer, it's certainly not 100% the same time, but the difference ceases to matter.
@@Dqtube extremely happy to hear irl numbers. Honestly, I'm looking forward to EVs being competitive again. I still think that Tesla's original concept of modular, field swappable batteries may be the real solution at least until we make a bit more progress on the batteries. Also, the legal limit here is just over 120 kph, so if we schedule a full hour for stops we are still only at 9hrs 20min. I get that these are ridiculous distances to drive by European standards, but we do not have functional high speed rail in the USA, so if I want to visit my grandparents I have a 2356 km trek ahead of me.
@KevTech 1 Earlier Stingers dropped back into D mode after a few seconds which was really annoying.. Later models stick in the gear you choose in Sport mode.
Elecetric car? Will never own one. And anyone who wants a self-driving car is a punk. A guy at work attempted to make it sound as though his cars ability to parallel park itself was so cool. Shut him down and exposed him to be a punk. A man who cannot park a car is a ridiculous thing. Truly.
Well thank you. 😊 I own the EV6 GT and that must then officially make me a punk. 😊 Just for the record… my former car was a petrol, and it had almost exactly the same self driving (level 2) and self parking tech as the EV6 (but you couldn’t park it from being outside the car as the EV6 can). I never used the self parking though… and probably won’t use it in the EV6 either, because I’m capable of parking it my self. So… is self driving and -parking ok in petrol and diesel cars but not in EV’s, or what exactly do you mean? 😊
@@andersteilmann8005 you just keep digging the hole deeper and proving my point son you are clueless. You better unblank yourself... before it's too late
@@rider65 Well, there you are again. 👍😊 You’ve written another subtle reply to me in another thread in here, and I’ve made a response I hope you will take your time to read, an afterwards by answering my questions, in an informative way, help me get out of the hole I’m apparently stuck in. I have to say though, that “son” seems a bit over the edge - some would even say patronising - but since it seems that we are only 9 years apart, I must admit it’s a bit funny and I came to the conclusion that you’re an elderly man with a lot of humor. 👍 😊
Have an 18 GT2 AWD. Love it. Looking at an EV6 GT if I can find a new one... But I still love the stinger. And looking at the headroom of over an inch less in the EV6 and me being 6'3"... I don't think it's for me. The Mach E is better
Do a video on the chlid labour used in the open pit cobalt mines. Where no laws exist for their wellbeing and environmental regulations are a thing of fantasy. All for an ev battery that has a 5 year lifetime and in not recyclable.
You do know that most modern EV batteries don't use cobalt, and that cobalt is used to refine oil to make petrol. And EV batteries have a 10 year life minimum and are 99% recyclable with modern tech. Show me a litre of recycled petrol
@@Mireaze Synthetic fuel is coming very soon (Porsche is about to use it in the 911 supercup). When that's in the forecourt, I can show you tens of thousands of litres on almost any street corner.
You are so cute to think that the metals used in the catalyst are extracted in a better way and that every oil rich country respects human rights. Can I ask where's the discount on the pink glasses?
Kia has had expertise with heavier vehicles around 2 tonne for nearly 20 years with its 8 seaters so it's little wonder they can perfect the suspension with an EV.
Right so the absolute deciding factor about the detrimental environmental conditions to mining the special resources, stripping and destroying lands and utilizing child slave labor for the sake of speed changes people's minds. 🤔 well I suppose that's true if the people's minds are much and they are ignorant Beyond The Pale. 👍
Going home from Las Vegas Nevada going up the mountain pass in my 2005 Toyota Sienna minivan that has a 3.3L Naturally Aspirated Engine eating up the steep pass at 90 mph with iced cold AC running I saw a KIA Stinger with ít turbocharged 3.3L V6 engine barely limping up the mountain pass driving on road shoulder at 15-20 mph and not sure how far it could keeping the slow crawling until it died in the middle of the desert. I remember read about a Saab turbo did the same thing when a automobile journalist took the turbocharged Saab to Las Vegas. My Toyota Sienna has taken about 100 trips to Las Vegas on the hottest days of the year and numerous road trips to just about everywhere in the country and never experienced a breakdown even once in 18 years and 324K miles later. The Sienna being used daily for all tasks including commuting to work, weekends, shuttering kids to schools, soccer practices, road trips, vacations, camping etc.
Why is it a cool video because you have nothing else to say? Because you don't have a thought in your head? What exactly is cool about it. The absolute destruction of Industry are people's lives based on a lie about fossil fuels is not cool. The amount of resources it takes to produce EVs, raping the land to do so creates more of an environmental problem then the alleged CO2. The batteries that cannot be recycled, the electricity rates that hardly anyone will be able to afford. So why don't you Regale us with your inane comments about cool...🤦♂️🤮
The phrase "Super fast steering" stuck out to me on this british channel as a really quite American turn of phrase. There are less American alternatives to that adjective, such as "very fast", "speedy", "rapid" or maybe even "supersonic" if you're feeling hyperbolic. I hope you agree that the Americanisation of our language need not benefit from your encouragement.
Cars like that EV6 are just a very pricey nonsensical product from a cheap brand. An affordable EV like the Renault Zoe makes brilliant sense to me, but the Kia doesn't.
Anyone bought a Stinger?
I bought a EV6 GT xd
Migrated from stinger gt2 to ev6 gt, I'm noticing a few other stinger owners doing the same. Love the stinger, but the ev6 made it feel like some kind of heritage novelty.
I have a Stinger GTS and I love it.
I bought a 23 GT2 special edition. I have eyes for the EV6, but will continue to enjoy the Stinger for now.
2020 3.3 tt panthera metal. I sat in a kia ev6. I will never buy one. I thought the interior was horrible. All hard cheap plastic....
Great review. I run a Stinger 3.3 V6 and it works for me. There will be a tipping point in the future, where every motorway service station has 16 fast charging points for EVs, and a couple of petrol pumps for legacy ICE cars. That tipping point is not here today.
I still prefer the Stinger.
I wouldn't say it's redundant with a $15-$30k price difference, the V6 still makes sense for entry level models like the Sorento or something but RIP Stinger, I wish they would've gave it a refresh before axing it out completely.
Drive both 300 miles and back, first one back wins.
You'd win in the EV6. Charges up so damn quick.
Garbage 🗑
Yes all very well the EV is quick. But drive it flat out for what - 20mins? And the battery will be flat then you have the park for best part of an hour waiting for the bloody thing to charge. Challenge you to a 400 mile race across country no motorway services and see which one gets to the end first. Clue - it won’t be the electric.
With the kia EV6, you can drive 1,000 km in under 10 hours. So it's not that much slower than ICE vehicles, and there are more efficient cars on the market.
@@Dqtube so, an average speed of 100 kph... On a closed circuit. I'm having trouble thinking of a single ICE passenger sedan that cannot easily match and beat that. Heck, I personally own a 20 year old I4 Toyota Camry that can do 1000 km in 8.5 hrs...with only a single refueling stop. Been there, done that several times.
@@martindinner3621 Who's talking about a closed circuit? That's time off the public roads from @bjornnyland. He's been doing this type of testing for years. As I can see you are always in a hurry, but for a similarly long trip I personally prefer to have at least one longer stop to replenish energy rather than eating while driving and peeing in a bottle or using diapers. Year by year the times for this use case are getting closer, it's certainly not 100% the same time, but the difference ceases to matter.
@@Dqtube extremely happy to hear irl numbers. Honestly, I'm looking forward to EVs being competitive again. I still think that Tesla's original concept of modular, field swappable batteries may be the real solution at least until we make a bit more progress on the batteries.
Also, the legal limit here is just over 120 kph, so if we schedule a full hour for stops we are still only at 9hrs 20min.
I get that these are ridiculous distances to drive by European standards, but we do not have functional high speed rail in the USA, so if I want to visit my grandparents I have a 2356 km trek ahead of me.
The Kia Stinger is a great analog car……with a gearbox that overrides the drivers selection at the earliest opportunity? 🤔😂
Tbf unless the UK model is different, you just need to be in sport with tcs off and it won't override your shifts at redline. Enjoy the rev limiter!
@KevTech 1 Earlier Stingers dropped back into D mode after a few seconds which was really annoying.. Later models stick in the gear you choose in Sport mode.
I'd rather have the stinger any day of the week.
Elecetric car? Will never own one. And anyone who wants a self-driving car is a punk. A guy at work attempted to make it sound as though his cars ability to parallel park itself was so cool. Shut him down and exposed him to be a punk. A man who cannot park a car is a ridiculous thing. Truly.
Well thank you. 😊
I own the EV6 GT and that must then officially make me a punk. 😊
Just for the record… my former car was a petrol, and it had almost exactly the same self driving (level 2) and self parking tech as the EV6 (but you couldn’t park it from being outside the car as the EV6 can).
I never used the self parking though… and probably won’t use it in the EV6 either, because I’m capable of parking it my self.
So… is self driving and -parking ok in petrol and diesel cars but not in EV’s, or what exactly do you mean?
😊
You da 🐐
@@andersteilmann8005 you just keep digging the hole deeper and proving my point son you are clueless. You better unblank yourself... before it's too late
You oil guzzlers are so insecure it's hilarious
@@rider65
Well, there you are again. 👍😊
You’ve written another subtle reply to me in another thread in here, and I’ve made a response I hope you will take your time to read, an afterwards by answering my questions, in an informative way, help me get out of the hole I’m apparently stuck in.
I have to say though, that “son” seems a bit over the edge - some would even say patronising - but since it seems that we are only 9 years apart, I must admit it’s a bit funny and I came to the conclusion that you’re an elderly man with a lot of humor. 👍
😊
It’s a shame really. Surely there is room for both.
BTW. Around 5 mins in he became William Hague
Have an 18 GT2 AWD. Love it. Looking at an EV6 GT if I can find a new one... But I still love the stinger. And looking at the headroom of over an inch less in the EV6 and me being 6'3"... I don't think it's for me. The Mach E is better
Tuned Stingers run 10.8 nice try..
Do a video on the chlid labour used in the open pit cobalt mines. Where no laws exist for their wellbeing and environmental regulations are a thing of fantasy. All for an ev battery that has a 5 year lifetime and in not recyclable.
You do know that most modern EV batteries don't use cobalt, and that cobalt is used to refine oil to make petrol.
And EV batteries have a 10 year life minimum and are 99% recyclable with modern tech. Show me a litre of recycled petrol
@@Mireaze Synthetic fuel is coming very soon (Porsche is about to use it in the 911 supercup). When that's in the forecourt, I can show you tens of thousands of litres on almost any street corner.
And oil is better how?
@@C.I... Synthetic fuel is a farce that will only ever be used by companies to pretend they're doing something green
You are so cute to think that the metals used in the catalyst are extracted in a better way and that every oil rich country respects human rights. Can I ask where's the discount on the pink glasses?
Petrol thanks.
No.
Appliance or a car. Hmmm, such a hard choice.
Would rather drive a Kia from the late 80’s than the EV.
Kia has had expertise with heavier vehicles around 2 tonne for nearly 20 years with its 8 seaters so it's little wonder they can perfect the suspension with an EV.
no
People's opinion change pretty quick when they stamp on the accelerator of the EV6 GT. Madness.
Right so the absolute deciding factor about the detrimental environmental conditions to mining the special resources, stripping and destroying lands and utilizing child slave labor for the sake of speed changes people's minds. 🤔 well I suppose that's true if the people's minds are much and they are ignorant Beyond The Pale. 👍
Great performance, no argument there. The problem is range and battery lifespan.
I mean it's basically m3 performance. Fast yes but not otherworldly
@@martindinner3621 250 miles and 10 years minimum lifespan is a problem?
@@Mireaze 10 years, not so much. 250 miles, in my line of work, yes.
Going home from Las Vegas Nevada going up the mountain pass in my 2005 Toyota Sienna minivan that has a 3.3L Naturally Aspirated Engine eating up the steep pass at 90 mph with iced cold AC running I saw a KIA Stinger with ít turbocharged 3.3L V6 engine barely limping up the mountain pass driving on road shoulder at 15-20 mph and not sure how far it could keeping the slow crawling until it died in the middle of the desert.
I remember read about a Saab turbo did the same thing when a automobile journalist took the turbocharged Saab to Las Vegas.
My Toyota Sienna has taken about 100 trips to Las Vegas on the hottest days of the year and numerous road trips to just about everywhere in the country and never experienced a breakdown even once in 18 years and 324K miles later. The Sienna being used daily for all tasks including commuting to work, weekends, shuttering kids to schools, soccer practices, road trips, vacations, camping etc.
That's Toyota for you 👍
🤡🤡🤡 really compared Stinger GT with Sienna 😆
The front looks like a BMW.
I can't unsee that now
because it was designed by former BMW M Vice President of Engineering Albert Biermann
Cuz Bmw attached kidney to copy tiger nose.
Cool video and a very nice comparison. 👍😊
Why is it a cool video because you have nothing else to say? Because you don't have a thought in your head? What exactly is cool about it. The absolute destruction of Industry are people's lives based on a lie about fossil fuels is not cool. The amount of resources it takes to produce EVs, raping the land to do so creates more of an environmental problem then the alleged CO2. The batteries that cannot be recycled, the electricity rates that hardly anyone will be able to afford. So why don't you Regale us with your inane comments about cool...🤦♂️🤮
The phrase "Super fast steering" stuck out to me on this british channel as a really quite American turn of phrase. There are less American alternatives to that adjective, such as "very fast", "speedy", "rapid" or maybe even "supersonic" if you're feeling hyperbolic. I hope you agree that the Americanisation of our language need not benefit from your encouragement.
Shut up lol
Cars like that EV6 are just a very pricey nonsensical product from a cheap brand. An affordable EV like the Renault Zoe makes brilliant sense to me, but the Kia doesn't.
Kia is premium ev.
Don't compare with a cheap brand.
EVs 🥱💤