Report: Kia Won't Make GT Until 2017
Fresh after news Thursday that Hyundai wouldn’t be making a new sportscar and Kia would be, the latter Korean automaker said it has put on hold its plans to make a four-door coupe until 2017, AutoExpress is reporting.
The first sportscar from the Kia brand would likely be on the Genesis platform and could offer a range of engines all the way up to a V-8.
The GT4 is still a half-decade away, apparently.
The Kia GT, dubbed “baby Panamera” by some, was slated to arrive next year, but plans for that have been scrapped, AutoExpress reported.
“We have very high intentions to put these models into production — we’re working on it,” Spencer Cho, Kia’s general manager of overseas marketing, told the publication.
Any reports of the GT4 should met with healthy skepticism, the B&B pointed out yesterday. Engineering for that car may not have started — that only takes 3 to 4 years — and the business case sounds shaky.
Nonetheless, it looks like the GT may actually see the light of day, albeit a year later than we thought.
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Hopefully the car will not be as apparently ill equipped and outdated as the model - he forgot his belt, hasn't shaved or gotten a haircut for quite a while, and thinks it's 1977 with the unbuttoned shirt. Or maybe it's just a cultural misunderstanding - like the Daewoo Lanos, that's what passes for handsome in Korea?
I dig the looks and the apparent functionality, but for the love of all that's holy, ditch those mutha-fugly wheels. They're almost as bad as that hideous dress the girl is wearing.