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Jethro Bovingdon, Frank Markus

“It felt like the ultimate rental car—tires howling and demanding to be driven at maximum attack just for the fun of it.” If seeing an RS, M, or ZR1 badge presets high expectations for a car, the “Kia” badge has the opposite effect. Several judges fretted that we’d invited a spork to a knife fight. Well, the Stinger started last, as the 12th car Randy Pobst lapped, but he instantly declared it “the biggest surprise of the week, with better balance than some of the big names that I’ve struggled with.” Pobst recited the “B-word” (balance) eight times in his post-session download. Yes, the car is softly sprung and damped relative to this field, but it always laid over and took a nice, predictable set, carving corners with little need for steering…

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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2018

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