What sort of automobile is the 2022 Kia Stinger? What does it examine to?

The 2022 Kia Stinger is a five-door hatchback refreshed for 2022 to seat 5 in additional consolation and with the most recent tech, and to maintain tempo with the BMW 3-Collection and Mercedes C-Class. 

Is the 2022 Kia Stinger an excellent automotive?

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Because it launched for 2018, the Stinger excelled at being a stunning touring automotive with sufficient pop from its twin-turbo V-6 to mild up the lengthy and winding highway. Extra normal options, and the attendant enhance in worth, stress the worth proposition the Stinger had towards different luxurious sedans. We gained’t render a verdict till we drive it. (Learn extra about how we rate cars.)

What’s new for the 2022 Kia Stinger?

A stronger base engine, extra normal driver-assist options, and a normal 10.3-inch touchscreen spotlight the adjustments of the Stinger’s mid-cycle refresh.  

The Stinger fastback’s lengthy nostril and muscular rear sport a sharper mild signature entrance and rear. LED headlights come normal, underscored by extra drawn out daytime operating lights, however the many air intakes in entrance and behind new 18-inch and 19-inch wheel designs stay the identical. On the rear, LED taillights bridge the hatch in a extra horizontal design, and the quad exhaust pipes are wider.  

A brand new variable exhaust system enhances engine noise and output by 3 hp on the twin-turbo 3.3-liter V-6 for a complete of 368 hp. An 8-speed computerized transmission sends as much as 376 lb-ft of torque to the rear wheels or to all 4 wheels by way of obtainable all-wheel drive on GT1 and GT2 fashions. These fashions additionally include Brembo brakes to cease the Stinger as soon as it hits 60 mph in 4.7 seconds. With both rear- or all-wheel drive, V-6 Stingers get an EPA-rated 20 mpg mixed. 

New for 2022 is a bigger turbo-4 on the entry-level GT-Line. Final 12 months’s 2.0-liter turbo-4 that made 255 hp will get shoved apart for a 2.5-liter turbo-4 that makes 300 hp and 311 lb-ft and goes 0-60 mph in 5.2 seconds, but maintains the identical EPA-rated 22 mpg metropolis, 32 freeway, 25 mixed with rear-wheel drive; all-wheel drive drops it to 21/29/24 mpg. 

The inside provides ambient lighting and new sew patterns on obtainable nappa leather-based seats, and extra chrome and black gloss trim on the instrument panel. Dimensions stay the identical, and so they lean extra towards mid-size sedans than compacts. That interprets to roomy power-adjustable entrance seats shod in leather-based, and the rear seats don’t compromise heads regardless of the sloping roofline. The hatchback physique type allows 23 cubic toes of cargo room, as massive as many compact crossovers, and folding down the rear seats opens the cargo space to 41 cubic toes of house. 

The Stinger already had sturdy crash-test rankings, however Kia improves security with extra normal driver-assist options, together with computerized emergency braking, energetic lane management, and blind-spot screens. Optionally available security upgrades embody navigation-based adaptive cruise management and a complicated emergency braking system that may cease the automotive when an oncoming automobile is detected throughout a left-hand flip. 

The usual comfort options additionally enhance on the 2022 Stinger, which now comes outfitted with a ten.3-inch touchscreen with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility, a bigger 4.2-inch digital instrument cluster, and an up to date UVO working system. Out there upgrades embody wi-fi smartphone charging and a 7.0-inch digital instrument cluster that initiatives a dwell blind-spot view in addition to views from a surround-view digital camera system. 

How a lot does the 2022 Kia Stinger value?

The bigger turbo-4 on GT-Line fashions begins the bidding at $37,135, together with $1,045 vacation spot, which represents a $3,000 enhance over 2021 fashions. On the different finish of the lineup, the 2022 Stinger GT2 prices $54,535 with the twin-turbo V-6, which is a $900 enhance over final 12 months. A special-edition Scorpion bundle to be launched later this 12 months will value $1,295, in line with an order information tracked by Cars Direct; it provides black parts on the fenders, exhaust ideas, and wheels, in addition to a rear spoiler and carbon-fiber inside trim.

The place is the 2022 Kia Stinger made?

In South Korea.