KIA EV6 GT

Performance version of benchmark EV takes Kia to even more dizzying heights

MIKE DUFF

“Silly or not, a drift mode allows it to oversteer keenly and predictably” While we review new EVs as individual cars, some are also transforming the companies that create them. The Kia EV6 is already a fine example of this trend, with its combination of technology, design and pricing leapfrogging many rivals that would until recently have been regarded as sitting higher in the brand prestige hierarchy. Here’s some bad news for those rivals: the new EV6 GT moves the game on considerably further. The range-topper’s performance has been boosted by an extent that takes it out of the mainstream and into very distinguished company. Its 77.4kWh battery (the same as in the standard EV6) is relatively small compared with posher EVs’ and its 263-mile range is unexceptional. But 800V electrical architecture gives…

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Autocar (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 3, 2022

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