Perhaps it will help sales when Kia puts the new EV6 GT in war paint against no less than five potent opponents with combustion engines, such as the Lamborghini Urus, Mercedes-AMG GT, McLaren 570S, Porsche Targa 4 and Ferrari California T. Naturally, a vehicle with two such potent electric motors of 430 kW (584 hp) and 740 Nm together initially pulls away. Only late does the McLaren catch up, the Porsche just doesn't make it.

What kind of race? Cross-over against sports car. What are they trying to prove? That you can offer a lot of interior space and still be very fast? Zero to 100 km/h in 3.5 s, 260 km/h fast. The records continue with the 800V system that it shares with the Ioniq 5 via the platform. It is promised to charge from 10 to 80 % in 18 minutes, the rear-wheel drive with 73 kW battery can do 100 km in 4.5 minutes. It can even be recharged up to 3.6 kW.

So although a lot of electrical power can be consumed with this vehicle, Kia still emphasises its environmental friendliness. Inside, the material of more than 100 PET bottles has allegedly been used. Although the slogan is 'rather space for the occupants than for screens', there are two of them with a curved and particularly light-insensitive surface of 12 inches each. And even two rotary knobs and a warning light switch left for tactile operation.

Of course, the design is appealing and although, or precisely because, they claim that they took more time for the interior, it seems a little overdressed in places. It is also not without its with that high rear end, for example, which makes you wonder what you can still see through the rear window. At least the task of putting two clearly different bodies on the same platform has been solved quite well. By the way, you can add about 10,000 euros at first for the GT-Line and then the GT-version.