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2018 Kia Stinger GT Long-Term Update | It’s a hatch!

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Our

long-term 2018 Kia Stinger GT

is a lovely sedan. We’ve talked a bit about what

it’s like to live with day-to-day

and just

how well the GT badge fits

on a car like this. It’s racked up more than 10,000 miles in the few months it’s been in our fleet. I’m personally hoping we can crest 20,000 miles before its year with us is up. The sleek design (both inside and out), sharp handling and peppy 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6 might get all the attention, but people tend to forget it’s practical, too. Just look at that cargo area!

I sometimes forget that most people don’t spend all day and night thinking about cars, poring over photos and spec sheets like we do. When I posted a photo on Twitter last month, one commenter seemed quite surprised to realize that the

Stinger

had a hatch rather than a trunk. It’s one of my favorite things about this car, but it seems it’s not common knowledge. If we can’t get a true wagon, hatches like the Stinger, the

Porsche Panamera

and

Audi

A5/S5/RS5 Sportback are great alternatives.

The Stinger has 23.3 cubic feet of space with the seats up, though

Kia

doesn’t list the area with the seats down. For reference, the

Kia Optima

has 15.9 cubic-feet in its trunk.

Winter in Detroit sucks, and the Stinger GT’s standard Michelin

Pilot

Sport 4S summer tires aren’t ideal for sub-freezing temperatures. Nokian Tyres was kind enough to donate a set of Hakkapeliitta studless

winter tires

for the Stinger (more on those in another post soon). When the tires arrived, I put the seats down and threw all four in the back of the car and took it to the tire shop. I had to remove the sun shade, but that was the only real fitment issue.

2019 Kia Stinger GT

About a week later, just before Christmas, Amazon dropped the price on a 55-inch TV I’ve had my eye on for months. I placed my order and had it shipped to our office lest package thieves steal it from my porch. I wasn’t sure it would fit in the Stinger, but it was just about perfect. Another half inch and I would have needed our long-term

Honda Ridgeline

.

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