Kia Gt

After teasing us for a while now, Kia officially took wraps off its hotly anticipated new sports sedan, the wonderfully-named Stinger GT. The new sedan looks amazing with long, lean lines, and lots of cool design touches under the watchful eye of design boss Peter Schreyer. Its performance also benefits from significant expertise of former BMW M lead engineer, Albert Biermann, doing double duty at Kia while launching Hyundai’s N-performance division. The car’s long, sweeping roofline ends with a smooth curved hatchback entry, rather than an abrupt dip down to a traditional trunk, a design choice that’s not only sexy, but likely improves aerodynamics.

Kia is getting ready to roll out its big sports car reveal at the NAIAS show in January, and from the latest teaser video, it’s looking more amazing than I thought. Sure, all we have is a silhouette, but the car is looking fantastic, with a long and svelte profile, and curves for days. We don’t have much else to go on besides this shadowy video, and some cloaked racetrack footage, but the big reveal is slated for 6:00pm Eastern time on January 8, 2017, so we won’t have to wait too long to see the full car.

Kia isn’t exactly known as an exciting automaker. They make good cars that offer great value, but don’t have much in the way of performance that buyers lust after. That might change when Kia’s new sports car lands.