A path of clues factors to the Hyundai Motor Group prepping a flagship electrical sedan for Kia, a full-size four-door a bit bigger than the departing Stinger with extra energy than the just lately arrived EV6 GT. A report in South Korea’s ET Information (translated) has extra particulars concerning the undertaking stated to be codenamed GT1 and due in the marketplace for 2025.

The automobile is claimed to take a seat on an evolution of the present e-GMP platform known as eM designed as an Built-in Modular Structure (IMA). The IMA is akin to Volkswagen’s MQX and MEX platforms, whereby motors, batteries and electronics might be rearranged to create a variety of autos. At its most potent, the GT1 would home a 113.2-kilowatt-hour battery juicing two motors that collectively produce 604 horsepower, and that would get between 700 and 800 kilometers (435 to 497 miles) on a cost on Europe’s WLTP regime. Might that curiosity followers of the Kia Stinger (pictured) denied a second era of the crucial darling?

This is not coming from nowhere — Hyundai’s publicized developments such because the IMA and eM platform. In touting the long run tech final October, we had been instructed the eM bones would carry as much as a 50% enchancment in vary in comparison with the Ioniq 5. In Europe, the electrical crossover is rated at as a lot as 614 kilometers on a cost. And final yr on the Chengdu Auto Present, Chinese language outlet Autohome spoke to Kia’s regional head of selling, Quan Yiquan, whose translated feedback to the outlet had been, “In 2024, a sensible full-size SUV [the EV9] can be launched, geared up with essentially the most superior L3 degree ADAS system, and the longest cruising vary can attain 700 kilometers. As well as, we’ll launch two SUVs and one GT mannequin to additional enrich Kia’s pure electrical product matrix and convey extra diversified selections to Chinese language shoppers.” It is believed one of many two SUVs can be known as the EV4, the GT mannequin — for international consumption mannequin — is undertaking GT1.

ET Information stated the sedan’s primary specs have been given the inexperienced gentle. That features the 113.2-kWh battery. which, if it had been in the marketplace now, could be the biggest battery in a sedan, outdoing the 112-kWh unit within the Lucid Air. The motors are stated to come back in outputs of 215 hp (160 kW), 268 hp (200 kW), and 336 hp (250 kW). The highest trim would pair a 268-hp motor with a 336-hp motor. That may finest 576 hp within the EV6 GT. A minimum of one decrease trim of the approaching GT1 would mix the 2 least potent motors for 430 hp.

The Stinger identify is not talked about within the South Korean report. That hasn’t stopped many from imagining what’s forward as a possible Stinger revival in all however identify.