Can One Car Redefine A Brand? The Kia Stinger V6 GT S (KIA Stinger Double Bill Pt 1) 

Bit of a rush this morning, James? Ended up wearing your duvet cover? Only joking.

Stunning looking car! If I were to buy one it'd be exactly like the one in this video. Love the paintwork and the interior combination. Looks like a mix of Maserati, Jaguar and Porsche. Also the name is brilliant!! Stinger GTS 😍

It's designed and tuned by Peter Schreyer and Albert Biermann in Frankfurt. Buying 2nd hand at the 12-18 month point when depreciation has taken a toll and getting the warranty top-up looks a good bet for the private motorist. Hopefully ECU can be flashed for another 50whp

A shirt mad enough to compliment the Stinger's crazy design! Nice

I really like the looks of this car, both on paper and visually. Between this and Hyundai's entry into the hot hatch world with the i30n, these Korean companies are really starting to make a name for themselves beyond the cheap, reliable transport moniker. And you really have to root for the underdogs here. Like you, I'd never even really considered a Korean car until about 15 years ago when I decided I wanted something that would do better in the snow than my Mustang. I read up on the reviews, and wound up with a Hyundai Santa Fe...absolutely brilliant car! Fully spec'd out with heated leather, AWD, a 3.5 liter V6, and even a 6-disc changer in the dash it still cost well under what a 4 cylinder CRV or Jeep would have run me, and it ran flawlessly right up until about 10 years & 90,000 miles into my ownership. There are still things I miss about that car even after trading it in for a C300 that's almost a decade younger.

...thanks Jay... watching this one again...as a Yank born in Northampton, and as a proud Stinger owner, thanks for everything you do...still enjoying the journey...

I must say this video show your improvement in how to make comment and the video shooting is noticeably better than a lot of your other video. Keep up the good job ! I enjoyed this one.

Very nice video production work, the music and camera shots were first class. This car looks fantastic.

Great intro! Could have been a Carfection intro

Your videos are getting pretty slick and you seem more self-confident than the early days. Keep 'em coming!

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Top review James. Cheers.

Good video. Thanks. I don't think I've seen a bad stinger review yet.

Lovely video mate!

The quality of these videos is awesome. Can't be long before you hit 100k subs

This latest vid is a nice evolution, James. Consistently informative and engaging reviews that rival the high priced spread. Just as do Lotus, it's amazing what you manage with the resources at your command.

The quality of your reviews are getting better and better.

What a brilliant video, great quality and superbly presented. The alarming 28mpg is nowhere near as alarming as the shirt on your back though 😀!

I have a ceed GT and if im honest its excellent value for money compared to other manufacturers, fully loaded too!! Really really underestimated and overlooked cars because its a “kia” tell that to the bigger brands when im pulling away on corners and straights... people get very upset when that happens lol

Well said with nice cool music ! Beautiful accent...

Great review, watching in this lockdown, even 2yrs ago your reviews were spot on and can't see any room for improvement :)

Love the intro, awesome quality editing 👍

Walk around and feature run through will make the videos more informative. Good video chap.

That why I subscribe to your channel, your honesty is what matters! :D

Awesome you managed to get hold of one of these for a drive. Fantastic looking car - both inside and out! The seats even look like Audi seats from a few years back. Even better that it drives well. Whilst we're on the subject of new interesting Korean cars I'd love to know what your opinion is of the new Hyundai i30N as well - is it as good as the motoring press make out?!

I actually see quite a few of these around Sevenoaks. (A dystopic place for conspicuous displays of wealth: Bentley, McLaren, even RR don't turn my head when I'm walking to work, past the Ferrari garage, every morning). These turn my head.

production value :-O

Don't understand why everyone goes on about his style of clothes. Everyone's got their own style

Love my KIA GT1 AWD.

Really happy for Kia with this move they made. Its great value for money and honestly from the outside, when you cover the badges, people will say they think its BMW, Audi or Toyota Mark X or Toyota Crown Athlete. But some flaws that Mat Watson mentioned in his carwow video particularly bug me - shouldn't have covered the 5 bolts per wheel by fake centre-locks, fake bonnet vents and also the flex on the centre console (if you happen to intentionally wobble the centre console every time you drive one, that is). Do you remember the roads you took for the shots at 7:45 , 11:00 , 12:00 and 12:07 ? Thank you.

Nice insert of library shots, did Kia supply those? Intro much better and the whole video had more polish....have you been checking out living life fast for intro ideas? Seems you liked the car, I am itching to try one myself..,

How do we get peak torque at 1300 rpm on a gasoline engine? Want. I totally agree this is a better buy than a lot of established luxury sedans. People think brands matter, and I don’t understand those people. I thought the Straight Pipes found an exhaust growl in sport plus mode or option? Might be worth a check.

At 9:03 the shadow looks like the Spirit of Ecstasy.

Good video thanks. These, more than anything, will be a spectacular used bargain...who wants a 5 years old Kia that does 27 mpg which is probably more like 25? this will be on my list in 5 years..only shame for me is lack of manual

Great video James! More of this, less of the in-between crap please ;-)

That's a very jazzy shirt

i believe prior when i "built" a v6 online that AWD was sadly standard. building a 2020 and it shows the 3.3 as RWD and the all wheel a $2.2k option.

When you test new cars - could you do a walk around at some point? I have no idea what this car looks like from the rear

Great video. How do you get to test these cars? I’d love to make car feature videos on my channel. Nice one mate.

I am getting a Stinger GT1. Living in sunny, snow free AZ, would you recommend RWD or AWD? (nice review)

The one thing that bothers me with this car is that i feel like it became cool to hate on german cars but when a foreign brand develops a car with alot of "german car DNA" (Alber Bierman and Schreyer) it somehow gets love all over the place... (Of course i like the car but it kinda lacks KIA personality for my taste ! )

You just keep upping the ante on the shirt front. I'm not a fan of the looks of this, but their styling is certainly coming on quickly. The smaller hatchback is better looking than the equivalent Golf/A3.

the never-ending muzak loop was ... distracting (change of tempo around 7:30 didn't help much). Kia car is good. Vid is pretty professional. If only I didn't have the desire to stick a letter opener in my ears (it's pretty redundant of late)

Any chance anyone knows the intro song?

Just needs a straight pipe ;)

Did you receive a free bowl of soup with that shirt? 😳

Nice review! Car actually looks decent, but 28mpg quoted? That's... not many.

yes Kia have came a long way! but for £46k id go with the new Audi rs3 saloon with a wicked 5 cylinder quatro noise and 400bhp AWD thinking of swopping my m4 comp pack for one

game over with the fake hood vents

I’m thinking about selling my Honda S2000 (fun drive) and Honda Jazz (daily drive) to get a Stinger (fun + daily drive). Please tell me I’m not mad and that I’m not going to live the rest of my life in regret.

Lets be honest here, No kia do not have what it takes to go toe toe with the big 3, but more importantly they are not trying to!

State of those roads...Jesus

You’re doing a car review and you do not know what the Smart driving mode does?

Blergh. The music. Made me want to take knitting needles to my ears. Like being on hold. So very, very glad you dropped this. Excellent review otherwise.

*businessperson's express...

Shirt.? Gosh I feel slightly nauseous...good content as always...but please please don’t distract with your unique couture...

440i Gran Coupe is way cheaper to PCP or Lease

The high CO2 output of the old tech V6 kills this car in my country.. Because of the high tax, it's close to 100K Euro, which of course nobody is gonna pay for a Kia..

I wouldn't call it a coupe.

Good car. Sadly for Kia, they're targeting the 'Wanker' market... (ie..sleazy fuckfaces called Rupert who talk like powerpoint presentations) who won't be tempted away from their Beemers and Mercs towards an 'uncool' brand like Kia. It's hard enough to get them into Jaguars and Volvos.

oh god the shirts are getting worse

Great video! Hate that car (Sorry)

It's still just a kia. I'm sorry, but brand means something, and the kia brand's image is worthless to me. I know it's wrong for me to say that, but that's just how I feel.

Mercedes is nothing but an overpriced badge and expensive problems! Stinger all the way!!

Can I rip out the stupid screen?

I will not watch this video, and I don;t know what limited success Hyundai-Kia has in Europe ( they do better with their cheaper-ass models in the poorest of the Euro nations) but this model will NOT make or break the Koreans, it is just not as important, it is a NICHE vehicle. If you don't have a clue what I am talking about, do not reply, but try to keep up, google it. In the so called luxury category, the Koreans must have tried and failed 14 times in the US market, they failed each and every time they tried to compete with Lexus And Merc and BMW and AUdi, and GENESIS is their latest attempt, by hiding the fact that Genesises are just pimped up DAMNED HYUNDAIS, not some exalted brand. They will need DECADES before they can produce anything that threatens the Germans (or, if you talk EVs, TESLA)