Back in December 2020, Hyundai and Kia announced the modular, dedicated E-GMP architecture, and we were sure that the Ioniq genesis had finally begun. Well, as it turns out, there was also a significant amount of Kia EVs in the making.
Time has passed quickly, and three years later, we can buy the 2024 Hyundai Ioniq 5 from $41,800 or the 2024 Ioniq 6 from $42,450 and the 2024 Kia EV6 from $42,600 or 2024 Kia EV9 from $54,900 based on the same modular underpinnings. Soon enough, there will also be more choices like the Ioniq 7 crossover SUV and smaller Kia EV3, EV4, and EV5, among others.
Apparently, Kia is working faster to expand the E-GMP-based EV revolution from South Korea, as it promised during the first annual Kia EV Day late last year that it would accelerate the focus on the E-GMP-based EVx series plus grow the charging infrastructure even further. Their end game is simple: form a wide-ranging EV family priced from $30k to $80k.
With the EV6 and EV9 in the $40 to $55k space, it's pretty clear that Kia has enough leeway both at the bottom, where it will introduce the EV3 and EV4 based on their corresponding concepts, as well as the top, where it could easily introduce a new flagship or a hero vehicle. There are no current plans for the latter case, but that doesn't stop people from dreaming – especially in the imaginative realm of digital car content creators.
More precisely, the virtual artist tucked behind the AscarissDesign moniker on social media has a big craving for something South Korean - and sporty plus sustainable. As such, the pixel master took an unsuspecting Lotus Emira – the company's final ICE-powered model packing either an AMG-sourced 2.0-liter turbo four-pot or a Toyota-provided supercharged 3.5-liter V6 – and morphed it into a proper Kia EVx sports car.
The transformation is quick and pretty impressive, as we can clearly see in the video feature embedded below. Still, of course, it's merely wishful thinking – Kia has no partnership with Geely's Lotus. Even if they worked together, adapting Emira's Elemental platform to the E-GMP requirements would be illogical instead of starting clean.
Instead, let us suppose you want something a bit saner but also a lot more boring than an E-GMP Kia EVx sports car. In that case, the good folks over at the "AutoYa" info channel on YouTube have a satellite venue dubbed AutoYa Interior, and that's where some facelifted Kia Sportage (CGI) action is occurring, both inside and outside of the compact crossover SUV that's more popular than ever. So, what do you think, which has more chances of coming to life – a hero Kia EVx sports car or the 2025 Kia Sportage with a facelift? Yep, we thought so too…
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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