Kia EV6

Hoping to hear something today on it. When I ordered the car back in January and put down a deposit, the dealer did say rhe price was subject to change.

How can the dealer increase the price if you have out down a deposit on the car? Is there not a solid commitment from the vendor to honour the price on the contract/sales sheet that was given to you?

Spoke to the dealer yesterday about my earth model order.

Paid a deposit in 2nd week of April this year. Dealer only took deposit from me once I clarified that I knew it could be many months before delivery.

He's getting 4 ev6s delivered in July. 3 are sold and one will be demo model.

He was informed that there should be 4 more allocated to each Kia dealership in Ireland in September/October and that mine would be one of those. "But no guarantees on the time lines".

In my own mind I'd be chuffed to get it before Christmas. He's convinced I'll have it by then, so time will tell.

I don't know that unfortunately.

I did ask him if my choice of colour would make it any more or less likely (I'm hoping for red) that I'd get sorted, and he said no.

And he added "so long as it's an earth model, you should be ok"

But that was in regard to cars arriving from September onwards, not the July ones on the way.

No, no mention.

I am out of touch with the pricing, but will an increase push it above the €60K? Thought the GT line was just scraping in at about 55K after grant, but a 3% increase would add about 6.5K to that.

Sounds promising for those of us who have orders in place early this year for something before Christmas.

Would these shipments be coming in the usual route on Eukor? Many shipments to the UK from reading on the UK forums, but none scheduled for Ireland yet. My understanding is it would be 6-8weeks on the sea before a ship gets to us so I would have expected some schedule.

Got a call off the dealer yesterday and it was a change from the call the previous day. The car GT line I ordered in January will be delivered by the end of July seemingly.

Not sure how they will work it out with a price increase though. It would put it over the 60k which would mean it's not entitled to the 5k grant

NCAP test has finally been done on EV6 and it got 5 stars

https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/kia/ev6/45871

The emergency braking tests are quite reassuring!

Dumb follow up question, where exactly is the interior socket? Is it under the passenger seat or something?

I can't seem to find any interior reviews that show it's location

I get you, thanks for that 👍

We’re you able to download a new version? I just tried and got the Feb update again, then uninstalled & reinstalled the updater and still getting Feb update (same version I have installed).

Well finally got confirmation today, ordered Jan (GT Line) and wont be getting one until "hopefully" Q1 2023. Disappointing, but cest la vie. Price increases for both spec lines are incoming, and also unknow if the GT Line spec will stay for 2023.

The cynical side of me says they are increasing the price so they can charge more for new Niro. With EV6 now €52k I expect Niro electric will now be at least €45k and still leaves a reasonable gap in purchase price between both cars.

They must have removed GT Line as it would no longer qualify for grant with a €2k increase.

When I spoke to the KIA dealer last he did mention that there would be no more GT lines sold into Ireland. I think the price increase would put it over the 60k mark and might not be a viable option. I got confirmation on Monday that my GT model will be here in early July so I am happy out and the price is 55k