Mar 14

Mar 14 Kia EV6 – More Teasing of a Curvy Crossover

By Phil Royle – March 14, 2021

Last week, Kia teased the world with silhouettes of its forthcoming EV6 electric crossover, with the promise to drip more information before the end of the year’s first quarter. Now Kia, sporting its fancy new logo, has done just that, releasing six images, a video, and a press release filled with such longwinded conceptual verbiage that it’s largely unintelligible.

The EV6, meanwhile, is quite a looker, both inside and out.

Anyone who has worked for a large corporation that holds “blue sky” meetings and discusses “paradigm shifts” will be all too familiar with Kia’s overly verbose 1,117-word press release about its forthcoming E-GMP-based crossover. To give you the gist, Kia says it’s designing its next generation of EVs – starting with the EV6 – using five pillars of design philosophy: Bold for Nature, Joy for Reason, Power to Progress, Technology for Life, and Tension for Serenity. Want to know what those terms mean? We did too, so we read the Kia press release – multiple times – and we’re still not sure.

Take a gander at one of Kia’s descriptions:

“Tension for Serenity evokes the tension between opposing forces and creative contrasts, and recognizes the design equilibrium that comes from two opposing forces. It delivers striking design concepts that use sharp, highly technical details to create surface tension – and realize a harmonized, future-oriented design vision.”

The press release left us longing for the days when one of Kia’s key designers summed up the Stinger’s lines as the essence of the Maserati Ghibli from the mid-1970s. Simple. Effective.

While no information was given regarding what resides behind the front row of the EV6, we’re guessing based on the rake of the rear hatch that the EV6 is a two-row crossover. It’s also our guess that the EV6’s dimensions, from wheelbase to width and length, will closely match the recently unveiled, and comparatively boxy, Ioniq 5.

Beauty, as they say, is in the eye of the beholder, so below you’ll find a gallery of EV6 images released by Kia earlier today.

If this EV6 preview whets your appetite, you’ll be happy to know that Kia promises more EV6 details are coming later this month.