2017 KIA Stinger GT -Wow

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I remember the old days when Kias were ridiculously crap cars. The refinement was almost on par with Lada, that's how bad they were.

This one looks ace and I'd be very tempted over a Cherman car, what with their incessant neediness and unnecessary nonsense. And porkies. It's priced a bit high though.
 
booyaka said:
Having owned 2 Kia Sportage's and the current one being a GT line - I would strongly disagree with terrible cars/dealers

The service we received when we had an issue/breakdown with the first one, was outstanding. Car picked up within 30 mins, wife and 2 kids dropped home at the house, hire car on my driveway inside 45 mins. all dealt with by the local dealer/Kia Customer services.

4 days at the dealers - they delivered the car back to us, bunch of flowers for my wife, took the hire car away - all at zero cost/hassle etc. Also note that the car was leased via an online broker, not a local dealer but the local dealer was superb along with Kia customer services.

GT line we currently have is excellent - all the toys, everything you could want from a family car.

Keyless entry is great - zero issues, Sat nav is perfect.

I appreciate everyone has different situations but having had Kia Sportages for a total of 6 years now - I have nothing but praise for the cars/customer service etc.
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The service is always good when buying, with all brands. It's when you have problems that things come to light and Kia don't exactly employ the cream of the engineering crop.
 
Nasher said:
The service is always good when buying, with all brands. It's when you have problems that things come to light and Kia don't exactly employ the cream of the engineering crop.
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In what context? There cars are really well built and reliable, we have one in the family, horribly bland car, but its extremely well put together, super reliable and the engineering thought gone into it is superb in terms of design underneath, so easy to work on and everything is intuitive, you can tell an engineer has had his say on exactly how things should work. For example change headlight bulbs is as simple as taking two bolts off and the headlight unit sliding out, most other major brands you'll be ripping your hair out trying to figure out or get access to change a bloody bulb.
 
Only German and Italian cars are like that really. Most others are quite easy to do basic things on. E.g. on the Fiesta ST I had it was two bolts and the entire headlight assembly just lifted out in one piece, much easier than trying to change bulbs inside the bonnet.
 
To be honest, other brands are also quite complicated, for example some Japanese brands, Honda's, Toyota's, where you have to take bumpers off, then headlight unit etc, newer Mondeo's are the similar. I'm sure some other Kia models are too, but on the whole I find the Kia really well laid out, with obvious signs of an engineer having put his thought down on it.
 
Word on the street is that a v8 version is a "possibility" for the Aus market. I imagine that would be an even bigger hit especially over there.
 
Kia Stinger GT S has a list price of £40,495.

The stupid thing is that by going over £40k they've just cost their customers £310 extra every year for 5 years.

Also at that price it is about £5-7k cheaper than competing German cars. By shaving £500 they could have made themselves far more appealing. It's not like there are many options to upsell anyway.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/kia/kia-stinger-gt-s-review-really-serious-rival-bmw-audi/

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I suppose any sensible paint option would take it above £40k anyway. I'll take my statement back.
 
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Kia will need to discount that list price a fair bit to compete with the German equivalents.
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I don't think so I looked at the German equivalents and often you are adding at least 10-15K on top of a list prices of a German to bring it up to feature parity with the Kia, on the S5 the HUD is a £900 option on its own.

Kimbie
 
SDK^ said:
Kia will need to discount that list price a fair bit to compete with the German equivalents.
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Yea you can have a Cayman for a few more grand if you don't need back seats much. Which is a much better place to put the cash as it will hold it's value WAY better and theres always a buyer for them.

In 3-4 years these will be going for 10-15k. But you'll still be paying for 40k car servicing costs on a Kia.
 
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Not understanding the comparison above

A cayman is in no way a comparable car to a 4 door "GT" like the Kia. Whilst this will probably take a bigger hit (from list at least) than the equivalent Germans even the Optima (which nobody buys) retains somewhere in the region of 45% of its value after three years so it's unlikely to be horrendous in this case.

Already available with online discounts down to around £37k so starts to look of fair "value". Whilst not quite in the same power league an Arteon 280 is sitting at similar money and I imagine plenty of people would rather sacrifice some power for the VW badge (and bland handling). The other real big problem for the Kia is that a non optioned 440i can be had for the same money. Whilst I can completely accept the point that it may well require £k's of options to be comparable spec it's the base price people end up comparing. Plus surely the BMW "should" be a bit more expensive anyway

It's projected pcp / lease prices are what will make it a success or otherwise in reality I expect.
 
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