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Will Kia Stinger really flog an SS?

Would you be happier in a KIA?


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Ah; I hadn’t heard of anyone having problems with the newer V6’s, just the old one like in the Tiburon and (*shudder*) the KIA Carnival.
Look around $2500-$6000 and you will find Tiburon G6 on with two or 300,000 km. They just don’t compete with the others sixes when they get km up, not meant to last.
 

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They really put their new engine into the last one or two year’s worth of production of the Tiburon?
Are you sure?
I do know that the 2.7 as seen in Tiburon & Carnival had all sorts of problems where the 3.8L in the Grand Carnival seems to last pretty well. Maybe it’s like an early HFV6 (rattle-clank-BANG) vs a late one?
 
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A V8, Turbo 6, and a Turbo 4 cylinder walk into a bar.... that's one heck of a cross shop there. Why not throw in an EV for the complete blended cocktail? Car reviews are starting to lose the plot.

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A V8, Turbo 6, and a Turbo 4 cylinder walk into a bar.... that's one heck of a cross shop there. Why not throw in an EV for the complete blended cocktail? Car reviews are starting to lose the plot.
*shrug*
I’d have cross-shopped them. I don’t necessarily care much about cylinder count, and if I were looking for a large car I’d have put the Commodore into the mix despite it being bigger than I needed.
 
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