Ones they really did build earlier

The two Kias you see here are ‘P1s’ of a different kind – pre-production ‘CK’ Stingers with almost-finished interiors (the lower plastics lacked production materials and textures), non-production paint quality, and their fair share of creaks and rattles. The V6’s slightly breathless braking ability can be put down to its lack of perforated discs, while the unswitchable ESC, over- cautious collision alert and other maladies ( only one working windscreen washer in the 2.0T and just one folding mirror in the V6) can’t be judged until we chuck the production version into a comparo. As for the GT’S adaptive dampers that fixed themselves to their firmest setting on video day, well, blame the police. Apparently they disconnected the power supply during their testing and completely wiped the P1 GT’S electronic memory. Hence why our test GT had fixed dampers, not the adaptive dampers of the production car.