Kia's product planners probably knew that rolling out the Stinger was a bit of a gamble. Enthusiast cars aren't selling well due to the rising popularity of crossovers and pickups. Be that as it may, the South Korean automaker had access to a rear-wheel-drive platform developed for the Genesis luxury brand. Kia couldn't pass the opportunity to bring the Stinger to market, especially in 2017, when there was talk – albeit not as much as today – of the industry's all-electric transition.
Hyundai was already developing the E-GMP platform back then, an electric vehicle architecture that Kia used for the Stinger GT-replacing EV6 GT. Since 2017, sedan sales have taken a tremendous nosedive pretty much everywhere in the Western world. The opposite applies to EV sales, which are slowly but steadily chipping away at purely internal combustion and hybridized vehicles.
Read Article