Kia EV6 ‘Crossover of the Year’

The Kia EV6 has earned the ‘Crossover of the Year’ title at the 2021 TopGear.com Awards.

The fully electric EV6 impressed Top Gear’s judges on its style, dynamic performance, long electric range and 800-volt ultra-fast charging – offering 10% to 80% charge in 18 minutes.

“With the EV6, Kia has gone all-in; wholly electric, wild styling, class-leading charging, gadgets galore,” associate editor Tom Ford says.  

“It delves deeply into the concept of a mobile lounge, the EV6 pushes into the darker corners of making an EV actually interesting to drive. It’s also spacious, nicely equipped and well-built. It cruises with all the best bits of EVs – quiet, smooth, calm – and then punts down a backroad with proper potential. A crossover in more than one sense, then, for the car, and the brand.”

The TopGear.com Awards ceremony is viewable at youtube.com/topgear and topgear.com.

The Kia EV6 is also featured in the latest issue of BBC Top Gear Magazine.

It’s Kia’s first dedicated electric car with two-wheel (2WD) or all-wheel drive (AWD) options and a choice of powertrain configurations, including long-range (77.4kWh) and standard-range (58.0kWh) high-voltage battery packs.

The EV6 GT-line is available with both long-range and standard-range battery packs, while EV6 GT features the long-range battery pack only.