The most affordable way into Kia's new seven-seat SUV is with rear-drive and 204hp - is it the best way?
The most affordable way into Kia's new seven-seat SUV is with rear-drive and 204hp - is it the best way?There are big years ahead for the large electric SUV. The EV Range Rover is coming, of course, and it’s impossible to imagine the reinvented Jaguar going without something similar; the is imminent, and there must be many more manufacturers pondering the leap into battery-powered behemoths.
The generous size does mean the EV9 is a proper family bus, too, with more than 300 litres of boot space even with all seven seats up plus a 90-litre frunk. The front rows are cavernous, small humans could fit in the storage compartments, and everything makes sense after recent experience in another car on the E-GMP underpinnings. A blessing and a curse, of course: its association with more affordable models means the EV9 would struggle for wow factor at BMW iX money.
More encouragingly, the EV9 is a really lovely car to drive at any speed. It’s seldom that exposure to the slowest derivative of any lineup bodes well for a flagship model, but that’s exactly the case with the Kia. It’s a big, heavy car, of course, yet the consistency and cohesion of the controls engenders confidence quickly.
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