Kia updates its fastest car and borrows one or two tricks from that other powerful Korean EV
If you were to just read the spec sheet of the heavily updated Kia EV6 GT, you might wonder what the point is.Three years ago, Kia surprised us with the original version of its hot EV. These were the dark days before our world got lit up by the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. Here came Kia with a car that didn’t just have a power figure to raise eyebrows but was supposedly capable of pushing plenty of traditional driver’s car buttons too. I remember liking it when we did our first ‘fun EVs’ test, even if a full road test later showed it not to be the fully rounded dynamic item.Now, with the facelifted EV6, arrives an updated EV6 GT as well. On the face of it, it looks like Kia has simply copied the homework of its Hyundai neighbour. It adopts the same dual motors (223bhp at the front axle, 378bhp at the back, a bit more at either end for short bursts) and bigger (84kWh) battery as the Ioniq 5 N, as well as its virtual gears. In reality, of course, the two teams are very closely connected, and this evolution was always part of the plan.Question remains what this Kia adds to the party.
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