Mat Watson, expert in Supercars, about the Purosangue Ferrari

To a Kia Ev6 GT and a pure Ferrari They separate 340,000 euros and four victories.

Specifically, those achieved by Mat Watson, Carwow journalist, in Milla’s room. The medium has faced to two rivals who seem to arrive from different galaxies in the classic test of the mile room (400 meters).

He Ferrari Purosangue It is one of the most anticipated products of the Italian company in recent years to enter the SUV market. It is sold for almost 400,000 euros to which we can add innumerable extras that, evidently, make the final bill. Some, if you want to skip your huge waiting list, are Selling in Spain for more than one million euros.

Although seeing the success that everything has had indicates that the Purosangue Ferrari was going to be an immediate sales success, the Italian company wanted to save him a huge Atmospheric V12 motor of 6.5 liters of displacement to make it clear that we were not facing a second -important Ferrari or an unimportant model for the brand. Of course, its 725 hp did not seem.

He KIA EV6 GTon the other hand, it has been recently updated with some aesthetic and, above all, mechanical. It was the most powerful electric car or with a more sporty vocation of KIA with its 585 hp but the Koreans have wanted to take it to a new level by raising its power to 609 hp but can sustain a 650 hp peak for a few seconds. However, it is still a car that is sold for just over 60,000 euros.

That is what breaks the schemes because, as you can imagine, yes, the KIA has been winning in the acceleration test with the Purosangue Ferrari. Of five occasions, the KIA won in four of them. And the fifth did not do it because from Carwow they aware of the Korean electric.

“At least it’s as fast as a kia”

Two SUVs, a line and something to show: who was going to be faster.

And from the first moment it was seen how Ferrari was going to have many problems to pass over an electric car, less powerful and much less large. So many difficulties that, in fact, they reduced Ferrari to the second position (of two opponents) all the occasions in which the exit launched was given.

In fact, only once the Purosangue Ferrari managed to overcome the Korean electric SUV. It was when Watson, aboard the KIA, activated the Simulated march change that the company is introducing its sportier models and that it is controlled with some cams on the steering wheel. There, the Ferrari devastated.

“Ferrari can already say that he has a faster car than a kia,” Watson joked for Walkie Talkie with his partner who responds between laughs that “surely in Maranello they are super happy.”

If we are going to concrete figures, the Kia Ev6 GT weighs 2,200 kg, 50 kg heavier than the Purosangue Ferrari and its power is lower but its motor torque is significantly higher, generating up to 770 nm by the 716 Nm of the Ferrari.

And that is seen in the video. That overweight subtracts competitiveness in the first meters from the Kia but very soon manages to put ahead with each start thanks to its huge torque but, above all, that an electric car can manage much better the power it sends to the ground. From the first moment has all the power at your disposalNot as a combustion engine, so it only remains for software capable of managing that brutal power so that the wheels do not lose traction.

The duel is especially bleeding because we are facing a car that costs almost 350,000 euros less than a Ferrari and that takes the colors despite facing a huge V12, the jewel of the crown of the Italian engines.

Although we had already seen similar evidence, such as The McMurtry Spéirling passing over the Ferrari Laferrarithis time is different because that electric car is designed to get the most possible performance, with a very light cabin that allows you to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.4 seconds or Stay mouth.

The test of Carwow It is, in short, the confirmation of how the electric car has made us break schemes of what was considered fast. How excessive power (a good example is the Xiaomi Su7) is at your fingertips with the electric vehicle.

Ferrari, at least, will show him that always sweet and hoarse sound to V12.

Photo | Kia and Ferrari

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