The Kia EV6 GT is a stocky EV, but with 577bhp and satisfying dynamics, it’s one with more than a little promise beneath its bulky skin - KiaUKPR
– an utter charmer of a V6 sports saloon – and sprints into the distance with it. It boasts another 200-odd horsepower, a £62,645 price tag and the sort of punchy styling that looks not just a generation newer than the utterly conventional four-door before it, but an aeon.
Yes, it’s an electric SUV and yes, it occupies the sort of size and weight us enthusiasts are predisposed to get snarly about. But hopefully there’s enough excitement going on beneath its skin to keep you hooked.Twin motors combine for all-wheel drive and a 577bhp peak, enough for a 3.5sec sprint to 62mph that feels even quicker in reality, the GT’s acceleration bombarding your senses as nearly 2.2 tons are flung down the road like a ball from a cannon.
What’s more interesting is the way this differs from regular EV6s, whose price tags start with a four. Kia hasn’t merely thrown more powerful motors and a fancy matt paint job at its plug-in crossover and cranked up the price. An electronically controlled limited-slip differential is fitted to the rear axle, there’s new suspension, a quicker steering rack, Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tyres and a drift mode.
Yet it also knows how to have fun. I’m not going to pretend it truly shakes off its mass – it simply can’t – but it entertains like the best sports SUVs, given the chance. And all without complete coldness, traditionally a trait we fear with the advance of plug-in performance. Execute a launch control start and you’ll feel a squirm from the back axle as the 362bhp rear motor excites its tyres.
It doesn’t transform the EV6 GT into a wild animal, but in something of this scale, I’m not sure you’d want it to. What it gives you are brief hints of oversteer here and there, a sense the car’s come to life and has something of a soul. It’s not an outright driver’s car you’ll point at the Yorkshire Dales for the sheer hell of it, but occasional prods of that GT button to liven up roundabouts on a mundane commute are surely Kia’s aim here.
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