2017 KIA Stinger GT -Wow

dvinell · 10 Apr 2018 at 10:16

vanpeebles said:
All this talk of solid lifters reminds me of the RS1600i

Shims in buckets?

Around then, I would have been driving a Talbot Avenger 1600LS.
Red with a vinyl roof, brakes that kind of worked, and I had to rebuild the engine twice in a corner of Dad's garage.
Happy Days :cool:

vanpeebles · 10 Apr 2018 at 10:17

Sounds great

#Chri5# · 10 Apr 2018 at 14:47

dvinell said:
Ceramic Grey.

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Thanks.

I'm interested to see if any of the GT-Line or GT-Line S appear as ex-demo in the coming months now they are launched in the UK. With the 7 year warranty and somebody else taking some of the initial hit, could be an interesting buy.

Nikumba · 10 Apr 2018 at 16:08

#Chri5# said:
Thanks.

I'm interested to see if any of the GT-Line or GT-Line S appear as ex-demo in the coming months now they are launched in the UK. With the 7 year warranty and somebody else taking some of the initial hit, could be an interesting buy.

There was one on Autotrader in Grantham ex demo, think it was 1K less than a new one with only 5k on the clock

Kimbie

dvinell · 10 Apr 2018 at 21:36

You can get 1k off a new one from Broadspeed if you aren’t fussy about the colour.

Zeed · 16 Apr 2018 at 06:35

balky12 · 16 Apr 2018 at 13:16

Didn't Clarkson say that this was 90% as good as an M3/4? Shame it is a Kia... so if you could look past that basically buy one.

Scrutinize · 16 Apr 2018 at 14:01

Isn't 90% as good as an M3/M4 a M340/440i though

acemastr · 16 Apr 2018 at 14:11

So expensive, but looks awesome. Quite a few are selling around here, they always look rather mean as they go past.

acemastr · 16 Apr 2018 at 14:12

Scrutinize said:
Isn't 90% as good as an M3/M4 a M340/440i though

Yes, but more power and less money than both.

SDK^ · 16 Apr 2018 at 14:57

acemastr said:
Yes, but more power and less money than both.

The Kia also gives you another 300kg for your less pounds

Havana_UK · 16 Apr 2018 at 22:57

There’s a good review of it here:

I really like this guy’s reviews (but fair warning, there are a few sweariesin there)

dvinell · 17 Apr 2018 at 00:35

Stinger vs Holden Commodore V8

Django x2 · 17 Apr 2018 at 12:44

Isn't a drag race meant to be SxS rather than run one, run the other. A pretty pointless comparison imo

dvinell · 17 Apr 2018 at 14:04

Django x2 said:
Isn't a drag race meant to be SxS rather than run one, run the other. A pretty pointless comparison imo

Health and Safety, or maybe they only had one set of timing equipment they could use?

Scrutinize · 17 Apr 2018 at 23:48

The main issue with the

Havana_UK said:
There’s a good review of it here:

I really like this guy’s reviews (but fair warning, there are a few sweariesin there)

Scrutinize said:
Isn't 90% as good as an M3/M4 a M340/440i though

acemastr said:
Yes, but more power and less money than both.

The problem is that the UK prices of the 340/440 M are a few K less than the Kia and the 540 M is only a couple of K more (from broadspeed) in Australia / USA etc where a lot of these YT vids are from, the BMW / Merc etc are considerably more expensive.

Even the c43 AMG is close in pricing over here.

Lower depreciation and low apr incentive offers make the German marques more favourable.

dvinell · 18 Apr 2018 at 00:15

It’s close, but it’s not that close.

I priced up a C43 AMG on Broadspeed, and it came to £44,500.
Stinger is £39,009.

For me, spending £39k on a car already falls into the category of “Slightly mad, but YOLO, what the hell”. Never mind that the next 3 years will feature jacket potatoes with cheese or baked beans on a regular basis because I can’t cope with a car that has less than six cylinders (first world problem).

That extra £5k is just a stretch too far for me - I had to draw the line somewhere.

Scrutinize · 18 Apr 2018 at 08:09

dvinell said:
It’s close, but it’s not that close.

I priced up a C43 AMG on Broadspeed, and it came to £44,500.
Stinger is £39,009.

For me, spending £39k on a car already falls into the category of “Slightly mad, but YOLO, what the hell”. Never mind that the next 3 years will feature jacket potatoes with cheese or baked beans on a regular basis because I can’t cope with a car that has less than six cylinders (first world problem).

That extra £5k is just a stretch too far for me - I had to draw the line somewhere.

Yes but in the vids linked the cars they are comparing it to, inc the 540i M, are double the cost of the Stinger or more in their country.

For example the 540i is 136k Aus$ i.e £76k. Over here its c£43k. The Stinger tops out at 59k Aus$ I.e. £32k over here. The C43 starts at 100k Aus$

This makes the Stinger look amazing value over there.

Over here it costs more than or very close to it's direct competitors.

The finance incentives and residuals probably make the German brands cheaper.

I was offered a 340i msport new UK stock un registered car for £425pm no deposit via a couple of carwow dealers and £399 for the 335d msport recently when car shopping.

The recent UK Audi S4 lease & PCP deals for example undercut the Stinger by some margin.

The Stinger is a decent looking proposition but £8k - £10k over priced.

dvinell · 18 Apr 2018 at 08:53

Or, depending on which way around you look at it, maybe the discounts we get on the German cars make them under-priced?

Either way, I think we do okay on car prices in the UK.
USA is cheaper, but it could be worse, it could be Denmark...

Nasher · 18 Apr 2018 at 09:00

dvinell said:
It’s close, but it’s not that close.

I priced up a C43 AMG on Broadspeed, and it came to £44,500.
Stinger is £39,009.

For me, spending £39k on a car already falls into the category of “Slightly mad, but YOLO, what the hell”. Never mind that the next 3 years will feature jacket potatoes with cheese or baked beans on a regular basis because I can’t cope with a car that has less than six cylinders (first world problem).

That extra £5k is just a stretch too far for me - I had to draw the line somewhere.

You'll probably lose much less money on the AMG when you sell it though.