Kia made a fun, attainable supercar but forgot to pump up the battery.
The Kia EV6 GT is a practical, comfortable, and somewhat affordable electric supercar.
While power is up in a big, big way, the battery pack size has not grown to match. And that’s the first rub of the GT: range. While the base rear-wheel drive EV6 can do up to 310 miles on a charge, according to the EPA’s range test, the GT’s range aspirations are a bit more modest: just 206 miles, per the EPA.An adequate amount of trunk space, but you’re not buying this thing for its cargo capacity.In my testing, I averaged 2.
GT mode is accessed by a little green button to the lower right of the wheel. The color makes the button hard to miss, but you’ll know when you’ve touched it because the car immediately lurches forward. Most cars ease the transition when changing from one mode to the next, but not the EV6 GT. If you’re tooling around in Eco mode and pop into GT, the car immediately snaps to this next twitchier mapping, also snapping the heads of your passengers back into their headrests. If you’re not careful, it’ll send your car flying into the bumper of the car ahead, too. In time, you’ll learn to lift off the gas before hitting that GT button, but you really shouldn’t have to.
The EV6 is still firm on rough roads even in comfort mode, jostling a bit over separation joints and the like, but most of the time, it’s a fine cruiser that’s comfortable and quiet. In fact, I’d say the EV6 GT does a better job at cruising than corner attacking. Even in GT mode, with the suspension on its most firm, the handling is sedate.
Kia’s UVO infotainment experience runs across two 12.3-inch displays joined at the hip, with a generous bezel between them. This system is so ubiquitous now, found in some flavor across basically every modern Kia, Hyundai, and Genesis, that it’s hard to get excited about finding it here. It feeds your media through a powerful, if a bit boomy, Meridian sound system. Though basic, UVO is snappy and responsive with support for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, though sadly, not wirelessly.
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