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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The 2022 Stinger has been updated with minor exterior styling changes.</li><li>Most notably, there's a new base model that's more powerful and cheaper than the <keyword id="892827" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="BMW-3-series">BMW 3 Series</keyword>.</li><li>The <keyword id="10946103" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="2022-kia-stinger">2022 Kia Stinger</keyword> starts at $36,090.</li></ul><p>In 2017, <keyword id="6372046" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="kia">Kia</keyword> came out swinging. Not with an SUV but with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kia-stinger-review-business-insider-car-of-the-year-2018-11">the Stinger</a> - a sleek sports sedan with a hatchback-style trunk. It was awesome.</p><p>Don't worry, though. I'm not here today to tell you that the Stinger is going away. I'm here to tell you about some updates.</p><p>On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.kiamedia.com/us/en/media/pressreleases/17205/2022-stinger-overview">the automaker unveiled</a> the much-updated 2022 Stinger. The car will wear <a href="https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/kia-logo-badge-rebrand/">Kia's new logo</a> and have a new daytime-running-light design and new LED taillights as standard. Other redesigned features include new 18- and 19-inch wheels and more aggressive exhaust tips.</p><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._6" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552512" hostid="261"></div>Inside, buyers will get ambient cabin lighting with a choice of colors and black and chrome detailing on the instrument panel. Some of the optional Nappa leather surfaces with a new "chain link" design meant to resemble wristbands on high-end watches.<p>The 2022 Stinger will be available in three trim levels: the GT-Line, GT1, and GT2. The GT-Line will have a 2.5-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder engine. Though it is the base-model Stinger, it'll have a claimed 300 horsepower and 311 pound-feet of torque sent to the rear wheels. All-wheel drive is an optional extra.</p><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._2" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552513" hostid="261"></div>The 3.3-liter, twin-turbocharged V6 in the GT1 and GT2 trims produces a claimed 368 horsepower and 376 pound-feet of torque. The higher two trims also come in either rear-wheel drive or all-wheel drive.<p>An eight-speed automatic transmission is standard on all Stinger models, as is a 10.25-inch touchscreen display with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.</p><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._4" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552514" hostid="261"></div>A special-edition Stinger, the Scorpion, will be launched later on. All we know for now is that it'll come in three colors - Snow White, Aurora Black, and Ceramic Silver - have a rear spoiler, unique black wheels, blacked-out exterior trim pieces, and an interior carbon-fiber pattern trim.<p>As a quick comparison, <a href="https://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/3-series/sedan/pricing-features.html">the base BMW 3 Series</a> - the go-to "fancy" sedan in our society - starts at $41,250 and produces a claimed 255 horsepower. And it doesn't have a hatchback trunk.</p><p>The 2022 <keyword id="6589546" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kia-stinger">Kia Stinger</keyword> <a href="https://www.kia.com/us/en/stinger">starts at</a> $36,090 before its destination and handling fee. With the exception of the Stinger Scorpion, you can expect the 2022 models to arrive at showrooms in the spring.</p><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._7" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552516" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._10" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552517" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._11" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552519" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._1" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552521" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._8" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552522" hostid="261"></div><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Stinger._3" height="1667" width="2500" msid="81552523" hostid="261"></div>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The upscale <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-kia-telluride-review-price-specs-suv-horsepower-three-row-2020-9">Kia Telluride</a> is evidence that <keyword id="6372046" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="kia">Kia</keyword> not only can, but will, build a good car that people actually want to buy.</li><li>Kia, along with <keyword id="596" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Hyundai">Hyundai</keyword> and <keyword id="9952" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Genesis">Genesis</keyword>, are offering stylish, sporty, quality cars at good prices. It's a trend worth watching.</li><li>It's also a trend the South Korean automakers need to stick with if they want to surpass industry giants like Honda and Toyota.</li></ul><p>It wasn't that long ago that cars from Korean sister brands Hyundai and Kia had a reputation for being cheaply built and horribly unreliable. Buyers conflated their economy pricing with sub-par quality to the detriment of the automakers. But that is no more.</p><p>Within the last 15 years or so, Hyundai and Kia shed their crap-can reputations and instead focused on making cars that people actually wanted to buy - quality cars that looked good and were good to drive, too.</p><p>Perhaps the most shining example of that is the new <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/kia-telluride">Kia Telluride</a>, a midsize three-row SUV named after a posh ski town in Colorado. Kia started selling it in the spring of 2019, and you people went nuts for it.</p><div type="image" title="2020 Kia Telluride_13" height="1667" width="2500" msid="78334253" hostid="261"></div><p>SUVs in general have enjoyed strong sales here in the US for years. But when it came to the Telluride, things felt different. It felt lavish. Unlike its competitors. Like it belonged in at a higher price point than Kia gave it. The Telluride felt like a crowning moment of just how far Hyundai and Kia have come. </p><p>It, plus the other offerings out of South Korea, hopefully symbolize a willingness to commit to what it takes to challenge current industry giants like Honda and Toyota - and if Hyundai and Kia do commit, those giants will be in for a fight.</p><h2>Selling like hotcakes</h2><p>Much of the Telluride's initial coverage focused on how popular it was. It's called the Kia "Sell-u-ride" internally, <a href="https://www.automobilemag.com/news/2020-kia-telluride-sales-selluride/">Automobile Magazine</a> reported. Dealers couldn't keep them on their lots because demand was so high, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/success/kia-telluride-suv-demand/index.html">CNN said</a>. Kia couldn't build the Telluride fast enough to meet the need, <a href="https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1128765_kia-has-a-problem-it-can-t-build-the-telluride-fast-enough">The Car Connection</a> wrote.</p><p>The best-selling Telluride, <a href="https://carbuzz.com/news/buyers-are-spending-big-on-hot-selling-kia-telluride">CarBuzz</a> discovered, is the top-tier SX trim with the Premium Package. That one runs you at <a href="https://www.kia.com/us/en/telluride/build?chid=sem&amp;CID=20253636&amp;SID=4132975&amp;PID=204339314&amp;AID=404123698&amp;CRD=0&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwtZH7BRDzARIsAGjbK2YpMT2PWxvj1oQKvJr9Tso6FWAPmEjRtE4phd7bYa-ZeNH36UujxZMaAhqrEALw_wcB&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;model=J4482&amp;exterior=Everlasting+Silver&amp;interior=Black+Nappa+Leather+Seat+Trim&amp;packages=GSJ&amp;trim=SXa+Leather+Seat+Trim&amp;packages=GSJ&amp;trim=SX">a starting MSRP of $46,390</a> - or a little more than a base Mercedes-Benz GLC.</p><div type="image" title="2020 Kia Telluride_25" height="1667" width="2500" msid="78334256" hostid="261"></div><p>When the Telluride came out, I'd never seen such astonished headlines about one particular SUV before. There must have been something different about this Kia that was causing buyers to flock to it, so <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-kia-telluride-review-price-specs-suv-horsepower-three-row-2020-9">I went and reviewed one to see what all the fuss is about</a>.</p><p>And you know what? I get it. </p><p>The outside of the Telluride is striking. With its big, wide grille, its own name - T E L L U R I D E - stamped in silver lettering across its nose, its stacked headlights and square, orange daytime running lights, the Telluride's face is not one that blends in with the rather bland SUVs it competes with. The perennially popular Toyota Highlander, conversely, is rolling anonymity. </p><p>The Telluride is bold. It demands attention. And it doesn't look like anything Kia has ever made or currently makes. If you covered up the badge, I probably wouldn't have even thought it was a Kia at all. </p><div type="image" title="2020 kia telluride" height="1671" width="2500" msid="78334258" hostid="261"></div><p>Inside, it's the same story. High-quality leathers, wood-appearing trim, simulated brushed metal switches and dials. Refinement, spaciousness. Upscale.</p><p>Rap on the dash with your knuckles and it doesn't respond with that cheap, clacky, plasticky response. Toggle the air vents and they slide smoothly in their sockets. Close the doors and they return a satisfying thump. </p><p>Fully loaded, my review Telluride came to just under $50,000. It was an incredible amount of car for the price, punching far above its weight and infringing dangerously close to luxury automaker territory.</p><h2>Building the good cars</h2><p>This upward trend with South Korean automakers started a few years ago and it might just give them a fighting chance against the Japanese ones - provided they keep investing the time, money, and resources required for maintaining that momentum. Because, so far, the cars have been good.</p><div type="image" title="The new Genesis G70." height="1429" width="2500" msid="78334261" hostid="261"></div><p>The Telluride's biggest draw is that it offers an upmarket product that's priced lower than many of its competitors.</p><p>There still might be a struggle with <a href="https://jalopnik.com/what-hyundai-plans-to-do-to-make-genesis-the-next-lexus-1795666983">brand recognition issues</a> over at Hyundai's new luxury arm, Genesis, but the quality of its cars is undeniable. The <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/2020-genesis-g90-a-full-model-change-at-mid-cycle-1028706249">G90</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2021-genesis-g80-has-stunning-looks-and-375-horsepower-v6-2020-3">G80</a> sedans are executive and just as comfortable to ride in as they are <a href="https://jalopnik.com/what-hyundai-plans-to-do-to-make-genesis-the-next-lexus-1795666983">to drive</a>. The G70 sport sedan is <a href="https://jalopnik.com/the-2019-genesis-g70-should-make-german-automakers-very-1827584004">light-footed and fun</a>, especially when paired with a manual transmission.</p><p>The <a href="https://jalopnik.com/five-things-we-loved-about-the-2020-hyundai-santa-fe-li-1840132801">Hyundai Sante Fe I tested in 2019</a> was tastefully upholstered inside. The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2022-hyundai-tucson-debut-suv-specs-info-availability-2020-9">new Tucson</a> and <a href="https://jalopnik.com/i-got-one-thing-to-say-about-the-2020-hyundai-sonata-d-1834173700">Sonata</a> are dazzling to look at. The <a href="https://jalopnik.com/how-the-hyundai-veloster-n-became-the-new-office-favori-1837611130">Hyundai Veloster N</a> remains one of the best and most fun cars I've ever driven, and it starts at about $30,000.</p><p>You know about the <keyword id="7213277" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kia-telluride">Kia Telluride</keyword>. But before that, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kia-stinger-review-business-insider-car-of-the-year-2018-11">Kia Stinger</a> sport sedan came bursting out of the gates with a hatch-style trunk and sharp looks, winning Business Insider's 2018 Car of the Year award. </p><div type="image" title="2019 Hyundai Veloster N." height="1667" width="2500" msid="78334268" hostid="261"></div><p>The new, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-kia-sedona-minivan-looks-an-suv-2020-6">2022 Sedona's redesign</a> could very well make minivans cool again. And <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2021-kia-k5-specs-features-photos-release-date">the new K5 sedan</a>, which will replace the Optima, is a sporty and handsome thing <a href="https://www.kia.com/us/en/k5">that starts at $23,590</a>.</p><p>These cars are proof that style doesn't always have to command top dollar. In fact, it shouldn't.</p><h2>Humble beginnings</h2><p>The ascent of South Korean automakers in the US public consciousness only started happening within the last 15 years or so.</p><p>A <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/29/business/hyundai-near-top-of-a-quality-ranking.html">2004 story in The New York Times</a> reported that new-car buyers ranked Hyundai above any domestic or European automaker in J.D. Power Initial Quality Study. It was the first time this had ever happened. </p><p>The story quoted the agency's then executive director of quality and customer satisfaction, Joe Ivers, as saying: "A decade ago, as Korean manufacturers struggled with a universally poor reputation for vehicle quality, no one would have predicted they could not only keep the pace, but actually pass domestics and other imports in terms of initial quality."</p><div type="image" title="Hyundai 39788 2020SonataSEL" height="1334" width="2000" msid="78334278" hostid="261"></div><p>That wasn't the whole story, though. The outlet pointed out that Kia continued to be a "subpar performer in the initial-quality rankings."</p><p>"And in J.D. Power's most recent study of long-term reliability, which many in the industry consider to be a more important barometer, the Hyundai brand ranks near the bottom of the industry and Kia is dead last," The New York Times wrote. </p><p>This is no longer the case.</p><h2>Ascension</h2><p>In 2018, <a href="https://jalopnik.com/genesis-hyundai-and-kia-topped-even-porsche-in-the-201-1827016493">the three highest-ranked brands on J.D. Power's Initial Quality Study</a> were Genesis, Kia, and Hyundai. That same year, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/korean-cars-pull-ahead-of-german-brands-consumer-reports-says?sref=P6Q0mxvj">Consumer Reports named Genesis the top brand in the US</a>. This past February, <a href="https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1127099_genesis-tops-2020-j-d-power-vehicle-dependability-study">Genesis was ranked first</a> on J.D. Power's Vehicle Dependability Study.  </p><p>In a matter of a few years, the results have almost completely reversed themselves.</p><div type="image" title="2022 Kia Sedona1" height="1252" width="2000" msid="78334284" hostid="261"></div><p>Gone are the days when you'd reject a Kia simply because it was a Korean car. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipb3VBpDvis">Han's casual dismissal of Hyundai</a> in "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" doesn't hold the same type of punch-down humor it once did.</p><p>You do get the sense that Hyundai and Kia are still figuring out a cohesive design strategy - all BMWs look like BMWs, but not all Kias and Hyundais look like Kias and Hyundais yet - but as for what's underneath? They've got that on lock. Based on what I've seen in just the past few years, what's to come can only get better.</p><p>There's still a long road ahead if the brands want to displace industry titans like Toyota and Honda - and even Nissan - of course. Hyundai and Kia account for just 8.1% of the market share in the US, <a href="https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2020/02/129_270276.html">The Korea Times</a> reported in 2019. That was despite the greatly improved products. </p><div type="image" title="2021 Kia K5 GT." height="1333" width="2000" msid="78334290" hostid="261"></div><p>That modest market share is also comprised of weak segments - hatchbacks and compact sedans, as well as low-margin cars - so Kia and Hyundai must build up numbers there, too. Headline-grabbing Stingers and Tellurides can't net all of the sales, after all. </p><p>But it's an optimistic spot to be in all the same. The crap-can reputation is a thing of the past, and that accounts very powerfully for public perception. With the Telluride especially, Kia has shown that it not only can, but will, build, execute, and sell a quality car that people actually want to buy.</p><p>The trick is to carry that same energy over to everything else.</p>

The Telluride SUV proves Hyundai and Kia are no longer underdogs in the US. But they still have work to do.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Jessilyn, 21, and Brandon, 32, asked the "Financial Audit" podcast for help with their debts.</li><li>The host, Caleb Hammer, said they owed more than $112,000 in loans, credit cards, and car debt.</li></ul><p>A couple appeared <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dSOaZgBVBY&amp;ab_channel=CalebHammer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the budgeting podcast "Financial Audit"</a> to ask for help with their debts because they were drowning in monthly repayments from the $120,000 they owed.</p><p>Jessilyn, 21, and Brandon, 32, from Springfield, Missouri, told the <a href="https://www.insider.com/caleb-hammer-uses-own-past-money-problems-help-people-debt-2023-4">host</a>, Caleb Hammer, that they made around $8,700 per month together, mostly from Brandon's job as a car salesman.</p><p>The couple said they made $400 a month from DoorDash and Uber, and they had a daughter under a year old who Jessilyn mostly cared for.</p><p>Hammer added that their minimum payments across a host of debts came to $2,794 a month. Many were at steep interest rates that could leave them paying down the debt for eight years or more.</p><p>The debts included six credit cards, two car loans, a hospital bill, and buy-now-pay-later spending.</p><p>Hammer went through the couple's various debts, most of which are listed below. Not all of them had interest rates given.</p><ul><li>Car loan, 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland: $57,891 at 4.24%.</li><li>Car loan, 2018 Kia Stinger: $26,850 at 11.51%.</li><li>Apple credit card: $7,988 at 9.4% interest.</li><li>Discover credit card: $3,627.68.</li><li>Citi credit card: $5,039.21.</li><li>Capital One credit card: $2,917.43 at 0% until December.</li><li>Hospital bill from their daughter's birth: $1,368.</li><li>Blue Cash American Express credit card: $857, temporarily at 0%.</li><li>Chase Freedom credit card: $523.60 at 24% interest.</li></ul><p>Hammer said he noticed some credit-card payments were going toward Afterpay and other pay-later apps that charged their own interest.</p><p>"You're financing a financing," he said.</p><p>Hammer said he also noticed late fees on many of the cards, which prompted Jessilyn to laugh nervously.</p><p>"Think about you guys' future, you've only been together for a year, and we have an infant that we want a better life for," Hammer said. "We cannot be laughing about late fees."</p><p>Other debts included a $2,524 TD Bank furniture loan with a 0% interest for three years, which they were paying off in $150 monthly payments, and three Affirm loans. Two were for Amazon purchases totaling around $170, and one was to finance their wedding rings.</p><p>The $4,200 wedding-ring loan was almost paid off, which the couple were happy about. But Hammer said they were "addicted to debt" and were likely to keep taking out more loans instead of making progress.</p><p>The couple's phones, an iPad for their baby, and Jessilyn's Apple Watch were also financed.</p><p>"You guys are killing yourselves," Hammer said. "You guys are murdering yourselves."</p><p>Hammer said he was "scared" for the couple because of their car loans, which represented around 70% of their debt.</p><p>There was $57,891 left to pay on Jessilyn's car — a 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland at 4.24% interest. Her monthly payment was $920 per month.</p><p>Brandon's car, a 2018 Kia Stinger, had a balance of $26,850 left to pay, at 11.51% interest, and payments of $525 a month.</p><p>Hammer read the email the couple sent him asking for urgent help.</p><p>"I'm admitting to you we have a serious issue, and we're just financially illiterate, I'd say," Jessilyn said. "I'd say I'm financially inexperienced too."</p><p>"And you're pretty much financially fucked right now," Hammer responded.</p><p>Except for the medical debt, this was all "consumer bullshit," Hammer said, arriving at a total of $120,000.</p><p>"High interest for the most part, death," he said. "This is the worst I've ever seen in terms of consumer debt."</p><p>"That is a road nobody should ever go down, and this is something you guys need to turn around ASAP, or the future is not a future," he said. "I'm just being as real and honest as possible."</p><p>Brandon said he had around $17,000 saved up for retirement. Their savings had also taken a hit, decreasing from $2,000 to $50 to cover moving costs.</p><p>Hammer said the debt they had been racking up was "irresponsible," and that he didn't want the couple to end up with their child having to take care of them in later life.</p><p>Hammer recommended reorganizing their finances to keep their budget simpler. He said all their income should go into a joint <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/best-checking-accounts">checking account</a>, with all the bills coming out of the same one.</p><p>Overall, their monthly minimum payments came to $2,794. By Hammer's calculations, they would need about eight years to pay it off at that rate. Some of the debt had variable rates, and if they went up, it would take even longer, he said.</p><p>Hammer said the only way to tackle it was to increase their income to clear the balances faster.</p><p>"Every moment that you're not sleeping or taking care of the kid, you are working," he said. "Everything needs to go to this."</p><p>He said they should cut up their credit cards and sell the Jeep.</p><p>Paid-for fun, he said, "doesn't exist" anymore for them, and they would have to rely on hand-me-down clothes for the baby for a while.</p><p>He said it would be a tough few years, but it would be worth it. The couple seemed to agree.</p><p>"I think we can stick to it for sure," Jessilyn said.</p>

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