Kia EV6 GT – The 577bhp Hangover!

Kia EV6 GT – The 577bhp Hangover!

This is the Kia ev6 GT now we’ve already reviewed the normal ev6 so if you want to know how practical it is or how big the booties or anything like that you’re probably better watching that this is solely about the GT is it a performance

Car is it a fun car can it put the power down can it handle the power is it just engaging cuz that’s what I want from something like this so that’s what we’re concentrating on not the car as a whole but just the GT now we’re not going to go around the car

Again in the traditional way I’ll just show you the differences between the standard ev6 like the GT line and this essentially it’s the same I mean it looks unique I give them full maximum points for making it different I don’t like a car that it’s it’s a safe bet but

The difference with the GT see and the rest is that these are vertical these little lines as opposed to horizontal so uh yeah only the Geeks will spot one the size pretty much the same so there’s no point in showing you the whole of that this though is unique you got 21in

Wheels and the unique design as well which well given the low profile nature of it and these type of Wheels there’s going to be some curbage going on there that’s what I’d be worried about I do like the calipers like a lme greeny yellower fair just it shows int

The back again is pretty much the same apart from you get a bigger spoiler and this GT badge oh and they’ve got more of a a diffuser going on but other than that and this rather cool number plate it’s standard ev6 look so it’s very subtle I’m not sure how I feel about

That sometimes I do like something that screams I’m the grunty version and sometimes I do like something that just drives by kind of unnoticed what do you think do you think a GT line should look like a GT or should be a separation the inside again we’re not

Going to show you everything it’s essentially the same as the standard ev6 the big screen let me just turn it on now ooh it still suffers from the usual lag when you press things so the main differences are you have this yellow stitching on the steering wheel which

Matches the break calipers and this lime greeny yellowy GT button which of course gives you GT mode and it’s also how you access your your own personal mode and you’ve got the usual Eco normal and sport of course which we’ll come back to all these later on another difference

Will be the range so at the moment we have 48% and it reckons got 89 miles obviously we’ve been driving this like you know slight Luna is should we say with it being the GT but you do have a range loss which again we’ll come back

To later on the seats are also unique and you got the stitching oh do you know what I think these are probably the most comfy seats I’ve ever sat in they’re better than the standard ones to be honest they’re just but from a sports perspective Ive they’re really fit don’t

They yeah yeah do you know what they don’t pinch too much but they do hold you in position M whilst we’re on the subject of them these are the most ferocious seats in terms of heat seats I have ever experienced in my life I think I think honestly you could cook chicken

On these couldn’t you but another thing with the seats and I don’t know how I feel about this cuz part me likes it part me doesn’t listen manual wow it’s an expensive car I wonder if we’ve done that for weight oh this nearly 2.2 ton car well 2.3 do you know

What I don’t mind that no I think I’ve got F adjustable watch yeah yeah wow on Twitter I put a picture up when this arrived and someone put up and said oh I had that for a couple of weeks uh I think they decided to buy something else

It says for the love of God don’t press the GT button in wet weather oh now they’ve said it first thing I did press the button yep now I’ve been driving this a week how many pairs of pants have you gone for through don’t press the button that that advice if anyone’s

Buying or bought one of these for the love of God when it’s wet do not use that there’s also another thing that uh K you fully acknowledge it’s normal you’ve got it on yours just burning a little bit it’s all right no no I’m turning mine down to one I’ve already

Had this I’m I’m not I think that means third degree burns first degree what happens is with these huge white tires is that on uh temperatures of this anyway we’re at five degrees slow Maneuvers it I’ve seen a lot of comments online from people saying there’s something

Wrong with my GT and it’s not it’s like hey no that’s normal it’s it’s almost like it’s got a welded diff so full lock oh yeah that’s interesting isn’t it right so Eco Mode’s where it’s at but even then bleeds it in and then it and

Then it shoves you forward yep I mean that for me that’s a little bit like the uh Nero where you get to about 30 mph and it gives you a whack a talk because anything else is just going to spin the wheels which is sensible yeah yeah yeah

And this is four-wheel drive so you got that extra grip and uh ability but let me just put it into just spot mode for a second whoa there we go yep I could feel the tires losing all four Y and all of a sudden on this road especially I mean

That that that was we got to 40 yeah I didn’t want to go any higher I think it’s whoa yeah yeah it’s not one of them it’s back to I think yeah it’s strange isn’t it cuz I think you’re not used to some I’m certain not used to a car like this

Having all that performance straight away well is it this is the struggle in my head because this is for me I’m guessing an allrounder it’s a family car and you’ve got the silly super car levels of performance I mean yeah super car 580 break horsepower is yeah that’s

Insane out of a car this side 2.2 tons and like you said the torque your face off isn’t it but I’m thinking hang on a minute right so in in anytime it’s not burn dry I cannot realistically use GT mode well even burn dry you’d

Have to get your tires warm yeah so then you would only use it when you’re having a bit of fun in sunny weather yeah which is essentially what my TT does only comes out when it’s nice but you can have a lot more fun in that at a slower

Speed yeah this I don’t trust myself with it it’s not the car it’s I I don’t have the talent to cope with the power of it in wet BHP is a little bit like adding sugar to cake yeah I know I’ll make it better by putting more sugar in

It yeah and it’s like well that’s going to make it a little bit better but it’s it’s everything else as well sometimes you can have a lot more fun with a lot less of something and that can be power and that’s the thing I mean with the

Tian it was wet when we tested that it was probably zero yeah it was below zero yeah yeah I felt comfortable with my capabilities in that car and I know it’s a different Kettle fish that’s been designed to be that powerful from the ground or this hasn’t this is just gone

Some guy’s gone oh we’ve got this really powerful set of motors do you want them G yeah yeah now I don’t mind a bit of insanity but I couldn’t if I owned this I would be in eco mode for what 70% of the weather we get in the UK maybe

Normal sport mode occasionally GT mode well you know what it’ be track it’s a track it is but then well then who’s taking this to a track it’s a 2.2 ton family car so is this a car that exists just because because he can yeah I think

So no I I don’t feel like I could push this so therefore I can’t have fun in it sort of in that you like the MX5 way it’s not a powerful car but everyone that drives it has fun because you’re pushing it so eco mode is just High a

300 break off ble which is fast yeah lot lot yeah even in something in this heavy yeah and you got obviously that instant talk and that for me is where this chassis where this car is at I’m not saying it can’t cope with nearly 700

Break cuz it can but I feel like it will only work on a track yeah do you know what is it the unpredictability yeah I mean every now and then it just snaps even though it’s four-wheel drive it’s obviously biased to the rear I mean it’s got clever Tech

They’ve tweaked the suspension it’s stiffer at the rear than the front they got the um electronic limit LSD limited slip differential yeah you know they haven’t just put more power in it yeah Brak a Hy po it’s a it’s a good thing but I don’t know why you’d want so much

Power from a family car no it’s a bit hard isn’t it really with itself yeah but why not I suppose yeah if you’re buying it as an EV though the range loss of this over the standard ev6 it depends what you’re in it affects that as well

So you’re like well all right then so all of a sudden I’m buying a car that’s got this performance that I can only use on certain roads in certain weather yeah unless you’re really really good at then though would you would you wouldn’t want to be driving it like like that on the

Public road no cuz you’re doing 60 mph in 3 and a half seconds any more than that and like you say so but then I’m not saying that then we’ve just suddenly got rid of the the reason to have a Ferrari no well Ferrari’s I think I

Think of Ferrari is you can have a lot of fun just driving that slow yeah as in you’re in a Ferrar it’s an experience yeah the yeah being in the car is the experience whereas this is just a standard ev6 it’s not undrivable it’s just you need a talent level that 90% of

The population don’t have included how many YouTube videos do we see yeah yeah yeah about people going in the bush there’s no way I would lend this to somebody no no no no it’s not something you want to lend is it because what you would do you’d lend it

To them and exactly like the person on Twitter you would say for the love of God do not press for yellow button and if that was me I’d be like press for yellow button certainly will that’s exactly what I want and they just giving you a set of keys back so sports

Mode and you can instantly feel the difference does a throttle response change with that yes yes yes yes yes Jesus Christ that was 45 four wheels are going yeah you can feel them scrubbing C your protction and then just at a certain point it gets grip and then that’s when

It FES itself forward if you look it FES yourself forward as opposed to off to one side yeah there I press it no no no I’m going to press it this is where we can do it so we’re doing 20 M now 25 wow y that is just I mean that’s back in

Ecom back in Ecom the thing is you you would want to take one of these around the track to discover what it can do yeah I think that’s that’s the thing with one of these isn’t it and therefore for me it becomes it’s a niche car all

Of a sudden yeah let’s do a bit of comparison okay test the model 3 Performance of this and and bear in mind that uh at list price anyway the monop performance is cheaper it’s a difficult one isn’t it I think hand better and he’s more fun to drive yeah I think I

Prefer the look of this yeah because the model 3 Performance looks like every other mod three and this is Al it does look good from the start even the entry level looks a bit aggressive the seats are very nice in this they are yeah they’re better than the Teslas but I

Think the Tesla to live with on a day-to-day basis is going to be a lot easier yeah I think I would go you know rather than spend what is it 60 odd, just under 63 I think you know what spend 40 on an EV and then on a track

Weapon yeah or or a sum car or whatever because I’d be able to push that I mean I could get home quicker over the tops in my in the Mini Cooper well we’re saying that w’t we I bet over the similar roads we could drive the mini a

Lot quicker than this car and not because of the the D handling this because I know what I can do with it it’s communicative this is good at handling better than you think but I just don’t feel like the steering wheel is attached to the wheels there’s not

Much I don’t know what they’re doing there and then the tires seem to lose grip due to the sheer performance of it all so then I’m dialing it down which then negates the whole point having yeah I wonder if if we had this car in the summer whether it would be a different

Review I think it would warm tires not the jitteriness because you’re getting the to getting the power down I think then then most of the time in the UK It’s Tricky isn’t it I think you know uh my St in this weather is just you can’t enjoy it because third gear it’s

Spinning up even at 30 m hour I mean the efficiency takes a hit you look this is a 200 mile range EV yeah 77 K battery I mean you get more in summer obviously probably 250 60-ish but I’m getting less than 200 miles and it’s 6° yeah yeah

Yeah um and out of a the battery size it is I mean that’s the tradeoff but again it’s it’s yet another negative in the column yeah so if I basically took my family in certainly the my wife there not a chance in GT mode shout at me I I

Think you’d upset her so there is reasons to get them yeah yeah yeah I think you’re right though I think I would like a bit more specialness inside the cabin than just a bit of stitching nice uh head-up display yep it’s fully speced pretty much is this is

Very few options and Fact one option which I think is missing what’s that no pan or roof option it’s it’s a bit dark you can probably tell on here I mean it’s a very gray Winter’s day but it’s quite dark in here and you can’t make it

Any lighter that is one thing I would go for in the V6 yeah because it just makes it a much nicer place to be yeah you can feel the 21in wheels kind of bobbling us around in the guy it’s quite a bit of so all of a sudden we we’re knocking

Down the or increasing the con column yeah I can almost feel the car wanting to follow in the road do you know what it feels compromised I mean it does have your own track your own settings yeah so maybe that’s the sweet spot you know know get it to your

Preference weirdly though it’s the little imperfections that upset it yeah yeah speed bumps and that it’s actually quite comfortable over yeah yeah it’s vet isn’t it yeah so oh it does feel I mean the fingers are in Spar now and just a tiny little FL go yeah if you cough you

Just that’s what it is there’s a lot of Ty noise at speed yeah I mean noticeably over the standard ev6 so again it’s another compromise but I’m not sure for the sake of that extra performance it’s worth it is it worth it do you know what there’s too many

Compromises to live with it on a daily basis so if you were getting this as a company car yeah would you or the option of would you go for this or the ev6 GT line I go for this oneast cuz got Mar everything there you go that’s it isn’t it it’s just it’s

Just it’s just the logic of it though isn’t it it’s the man logic so it it it has a purpose it just doesn’t make sense but then a lot of cars don’t make sense no so would you go for the Mustang Mack the ionic 5n we haven’t driven but

Just on looks alone for that I would go for that gv60 I’d go for you know what I’d go for a normal spec gv60 over this just cuz the interior was and for the compromises we already mentioned oh we got the whole star too performance I I’d have this i’

Didn’t gel with that I don’t know but for whatever reason that that was the same sort of thing wasn’t it who’s going for a Pulstar 2 that has manually adjustable track suspension as an optional extra for five grand who’s going for that with such a big large car

No for a track nobody is so is the Porche tyan which can match this for Speed or even beat it but put it down is it worth the extra 20 30 40 50 Grand over this uh I would say it’s a very different car because yes one of them

Feels like a a car that’s meant to do it from the ground up POS and this one feels like it’s been made to do it and it feels like it can do it I’m not saying it’s it’s feeling it’s been adapted been adapted to do it there’s

Compromises the par I mean the thing is the par is just a par isn’t it you drive that and you’re like oh I understand yeah and you do feel more special just sat inside it yeah there’s a little bit of that as well I mean the thing that

That hate for me is when you went if you have these you know get one of these are the GT L of company car which would you get okay so even though we’re going to it’s utterly pointless would you have one oh yeah two right yeah one to scare your to

Death every day yeah yeah so just under 63 Grand but we’ve had a look at auto trader and we can find one that’s 6 months old with like 2 3,000 miles on it X demo an X demo for just under 50 yeah I mean that at that point you’re going

Ooh fact they were won for 47 47 yeah that a bit of mileage all of a sudden six no no that was like 5,000 miles was it ah yeah it was a gv6 so all thinking 47 grand for a 6 nemon old version of this yeah yeah yeah oo it does beg the

Question what this would be on insurance at the moment I wonder might be worth taking it I might have a look when I get home I tell you what I’ll put up now at the bottom of this screen how much it’s cost for an insurance court

For this car yeah so now what we have to do is film the two different variants good luck so the first one will be the oh that’s not too bad yeah that’s not too bad actually yeah I think that’s that’s not bad at all you know whoa Jesus it’s a Kia seamless editing

We’ll sort that out just remember not to leave both of them in it is noisy though it’s we’re doing 70 mph now and I bet I don’t know where it comes across on camera but I have to put things in to try and mute the road noise it is not

And we’re still having we’re having to talk up yeah so on a long journey not quite GT is no it’s not that so how do we summarize this then Bonkers insane compromised not for me but given the option over a standard version I would

Always go for it yeah um so it’s like a night out you always drink more than you should but you had a good time day after you going I wish I hadn’t have done that so it’s a hangover it’s a hangover the Kia ev6 hangover is that the title I

Think it is there we go this is how we do these things we make it up as we go along it does beg the question though given the fact you get a 7year warranty on this when this is let’s say 3 years old going off what the others depreciate

Oh yeah are you getting this for like 20 odd Grand when it’s 3 years old and you still got four years warranty left on it so ultimately then let’s let’s finish summarizing this is this a fun to drive car I’m going to say no I’m too nervous

Personally but some will find it as fun I I get I I feel yeah I think it has I think not bad Drive yeah I think it would be I just don’t have the confidence in the web to take a car anyway near like a yeah like like it

Probably could do uh I think in the dry it’d be a very different story yeah I got like you said round the roundabout then no real sense of how much grip was left yeah uh pulling onto the bypass there’s no way I was fling it until I

Was totally straight it’s like driving a rear wheel drive BMW with a lot of power yeah so it’s perfect for nerb ring it is it’s a nerdburger ring taxi yeah right I think that’s the worst summ we’ve ever done with a vehicle you usually were just like just drive one yourself cuz we

Don’t really know well I think you we should say that though if you if you’re looking for a performance EV like a a pul star 2 performance something like this the ionic 5n blah blah blah drive it because you might think oh actually I do really like this I don’t have your uh

You know shortcomings yeah yeah yeah um but I just don’t think the communicative nature that that some of those have is here and that’s why I wouldn’t choose it but by all means test it yeah see you later thanks for watching and thank you to Kia for providing a little bit of

Fair Ground us sum this car up in one word I can’t do it in one word do it in two go on Jack oh no when did it do that just to highlight how professional we are this said who knows how many minutes ago card full now what we should do is refilm

Those bits but what I’m going to do instead is use the audio from this really terrible microphone because I can’t be bothered put through some fillers yes and to be fair you got pick your daughter up I have and the light is fading it isn’t it’s only 1:00 so uh so

There you go that’s what you get professionalism

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