Recent content by Marc Collins

Tires that came on the car. No scuffs, abrasions or any issues whatsoever. Available for pick-up in Toronto. Doubtful anyone will want to pay enough to justify shipping. Any reasonable offers welcome.

I'd rather have the software updates that are on the 2019 models than a gift I can buy myself in the store if I wanted it. I don't like being punished for being an early adopter.

Too late. And they won't get a "gift" and the MSRP is going up. Not sure what your point is?

Yah, we just get the car properly equipped...

Especially nice to have it at least as an OPTION when sister car G70 comes with it standard (in Canada anyway).

Just my 2 cents worth...

The transmission learning has been on cars for many years. Works poorly in most cases, unless you always drive with the same level of aggression. No computer can be aware that for whatever reason you suddenly want to switch from toddling along to get up and go. Drive modes are the much...

Nope. It's simple ECU/TCU programming. For the cars without drive-by-wire shifters there is a an obvious mechanical lever to get the car to stay in manual. For DBW, the earlier models were programmed similar to a minivan or econocar that assumes the driver is a moron and it shifts back to D...

Me, too, except we can't turn it completely off. Until enough of us complain to KIA to add that option to the menu (should have always been there and is there in the sister Genesis G70).

It's not really unbelievable. KIA has used sub-par plugs. "RaceChip is offering products for 4,000 car models and this is the first time that users are dealing with poor spark plug quality." I am not surprised that the Stinger has under-engineered parts that would only affect mods (hopefully...

It is important for us to understand this whole spark plug gap issue in the context of non-chip usage. If they are failing so quickly with a chip, doesn't it mean that they are also likely to fail prematurely without a chip? It's just that premature failure without a chip will be in a year or...

Interesting... I wish they would do the non-map updates that come with the latest map update.

Let's hope KIA Canada picks the duffel bag...if they do anything. We already feel guilty about the better optioning and value of our cars, so may not be worthy of a gift on top of that.

I am well aware of that--have owned many modern cars since the days of software updates. When there is an issue being discussed here, such as the shift logic programming where we already know there are differences either by age or geography, it would be nice to have some solid info to go on...

I'll surmise this is a KIA USA-only offer?