Quick facelift
With the EV6, Kia launched its ‘EV’ label under which it markets its electric cars. Despite the fact that the EV6 was the first of that EV model line, it is the only one of the bunch that is not completely drawn according to Kia’s latest design language. The brand makes up for that with the facelifted Kia EV6, which we can show you today in a packed test suit.
Opposites United. That is the name of the design philosophy that Kia applies to its models. The Kia EV6 was also designed according to that corporate identity, but the Koreans introduced a new variant on more recent models of Kia’s model family – think of the Niro, EV9 and the not yet available EV5. You can recognize the latest Kias by their very pronounced lighting, especially at the front. The Kia EV6 will be three years old next year and is therefore certainly not yet at the age where a facelift would be necessary. Yet Kia apparently thinks three years is a good age to give the EV6 a sharper face.
Some details are already visible through the camouflage of this captured test specimen. So we see that the headlights grow a considerable size. The wide and flat units that the EV6 now has are apparently being replaced by higher units with a vertically oriented signature. The EV6 is still too fanatically in the stickers to report meaningful things about the rest of the bodywork, although we suspect that the bumper work will be visually tightened and that the electric Kia will be introduced to new alloy wheels. After all, we do not yet know the specimens you see in these photos.
What awaits the EV6 in terms of technology? Don’t be surprised if Kia is allowed to pull a larger battery pack – perhaps the 85 kWh version of the Ioniq 5 N – from the shelves of Hyundai Motor Group. We’ll have to wait and see, we’ll know more next year. Since the launch of the Kia EV6 in 2021, almost 7,200 units have already been registered in the Netherlands.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl