The EV6 GT continues to be a heavy automobile, and its 2,185-kilogram curb weight is felt during the corners when pushed briefly. If really let unfastened, we suspect physics would quickly triumph over the efforts of Kia’s engineers. It seems that, and in spite of its large energy, this isn’t a automobile designed for observe use. Kia says as a lot itself, conceding that, whilst the GT used to be examined at the Nürburbring Nordschleife, it “has been evolved very in particular for street use.”
As such, you almost certainly don’t want to know {that a} “secret” waft mode switches off the entrance motor, tells the traction keep an eye on to take a couple of mins out, and allows you to slide the Kia with a prod of the accelerator. A laugh for a few mins on personal land, however relatively unnecessary for the opposite 99.9 p.c of the time.
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Within, the GT stocks an excessively an identical cabin to a typical EV6 provided with the GT-Line choices pack. It’s relaxed and rather quiet at low velocity identical to another EV. Alternatively, wind noise generated through the wing mirrors (a hangover factor from the usual EV6) is louder than we’d like from a automobile costing a bit over £60,000.
The cabin is sexy and the GT-exclusive semibucket seats supply further strengthen, however aren’t as relaxed because the softer, squishier chairs suited for the usual automobile.
The twin 12.2-inch curved dashboard presentations are the similar as within the common EV6, and so too are the touch-sensitive controls underneath them, appearing icons for media and local weather however no longer on the similar time. Kia has attempted to cut back litter right here, however in doing so has a device that frustratingly doesn’t display any local weather controls in any respect except you prod at a touch-sensitive button to change from Media and Navigation to Temperature. It then returns to the previous after a couple of seconds as an alternative of leaving the heating and cooling controls in position.
Kia’s wi-fi telephone charger is grippier and extra dependable than some others we’ve noticed, however the loss of wi-fi Apple CarPlay, a obtrusive omission within the current vanilla EV6, stays unlucky. Practicality is on par with its siblings, with the similar cabin and cupboard space because the common dual-motor variant, that means simply 20 liters of garage beneath the hood.
Kia says it got down to produce a grand tourer paying homage to relaxed, big-engined vehicles of the Seventies. The EV6 GT undoubtedly has various efficiency, and the suspension and differential adjustments display the corporate has put actual effort into riding dynamics in addition to straight-line tempo. However the 262-mile vary fails to reside as much as the GT billing.
And whilst superfast charging by means of the auto’s 800-volt tech will pass some method to alleviate vary anxiousness, we want Kia had held again on outright efficiency and as an alternative opted for a extra long-legged mix of velocity and vary.
