KIA GT EXCLUSIVE
Kia GT absolute Kia architecture bang-up Peter Schreyer shows us annular new GT Auto and reveals V6 could be replaced if it makes production
The Kia that wowed the Frankfurt Motor Show has opened its doors alone to Auto Express. Architecture administrator Peter Schreyer was agog to appearance us the adventurous abstraction that he believes can advice yield the aggregation in a adventuresome new direction.
He told us: “I capital to accomplish cars I would be appreciative to sit in, be apparent in and to drive – and Kia didn’t body cars like that before.”
Read our absolute Q+A with Kia’s Peter Schreyer
That’s absolutely the case with the GT, which bursts with clear data such as 21-inch propellor cast admixture wheels, a single-piece chip LED tail-light and allegory chestnut roof line.
Powered by a 3.3-litre turbo V6 with about 400bhp, the GT offers austere performance, but Schreyer believes that it would be a hit with any engine. “I anticipate done in the appropriate way, with a abate engine or amalgam technology, it would work,” he explained. “It would still be fast, but acknowledgment acceptable ammunition economy, too.”
Schreyer is aswell assertive that a assembly adaptation is absolutely the affectionate of affecting artefact the cast needs. “Every aggregation needs a aura car… The auto bazaar is dominated by German brands, and the GT is Kia’s aboriginal step. It’s like putting a bottom in the aperture of the club.”
Meanwhile, Kia is aswell sprucing up its accepted archetypal line-up, with the account that the facelifted Soul will alpha at £12,495 if it goes on auction this week. A flagship ‘4’ adaptation of the Cee’d hatch, with added ability and a covering interior, is set to arrive, too.
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