The Kia Vision Meta Turismo Concept is a sleek electric sports sedan that has us hungry for a proper successor to the sadly gone Stinger. A new video walking through the concept’s design story hints that Kia might have a second bodystyle in mind.

The official footage, shot inside the design studio, shows a pair of scale models sitting next to hand-drawn sketches. They look like early variations on the Meta Turismo theme, each with a different silhouette.

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Next to the coupe-style sedan sits a model with a reworked roofline that reads as a futuristic shooting brake. The long-roof version differs from the final concept in a few other details beyond its distinctive greenhouse, though it uses the same wheels and overall dimensions.

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The Meta Turismo Shooting Brake hasn’t progressed to a full-size prototype and may never leave the early ideation stage. Its appearance in the video, and in the opening image, still confirms that Kia’s designers didn’t restrict their grand touring vision to a single bodystyle.

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If it gets the green light for production, such a model would offer extra headroom and superior cargo capacity while retaining the striking visual impact of a low-slung GT. It would also mark Kia’s return in the estate segment after the discontinuation of the Kia Ceed SW, and the closely related ProCeed in some markets, including Europe.

A Sports Sedan For Gamers

In the design story, Kia’s creative team shed light on the core philosophy behind the Meta Turismo project. The initial briefing tasked designers with envisioning a performance sedan tailored specifically for the “gamer generation”. According to Kia, the target group is drivers who move seamlessly between digital and physical environments.

Inside, the futuristic interface includes a removable retro gaming console mounted on the side of the dashboard. There are four individual seats, with the driver’s chair styled differently from the passengers’, plus organic and sustainable materials including silk and wood. The team also noted that a cab-forward architecture let them maximize cabin space without wrecking the proportions.

Will It Reach Production?

The Vision Meta Turismo concept broke cover in December 2025, then appeared publicly at Milan Design Week and the Busan International Mobility Show in spring 2026. Pitched as the spiritual heir to the Stinger, it swaps that car’s twin-turbo 3.3-liter V6 for a fully electric powertrain.

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While Kia has yet to confirm production intent, Global Design Chief Karim Habib and Europe Design Boss Oliver Samson have previously revealed that engineering feasibility work is already underway. The primary hurdle remains establishing a viable business case for a new halo car. Here’s hoping Kia finds one, and brings the more practical sibling along for the ride too.

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The Stinger never sold in the numbers Kia had hoped for, but it built something more valuable than volume: a small, loyal audience that still wants the brand to try again. The company is keen to make another sports sedan in the vein of the Stinger, only this one will run on electrons and could trace its bones to the recent Vision Meta Turismo concept.

The EV6 GT was supposed to fill the void. It hasn’t. The crossover stance and electric powertrain never landed with the enthusiast crowd the Stinger had cultivated, and the price walked well past where the Stinger ever lived. Design boss Karim Habib is betting that performance EVs will eventually get cheap enough to make the Meta Turismo a production reality and a real Stinger replacement.

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“We have a small history of doing cars like the Stinger, and that’s something we don’t want to give up on,” Habib told Autocar. “The Meta Turismo is our idea of a sports sedan for the gamer generation. A few years ago, we started thinking about what could we do beyond SUVs? We do produce and sell a lot of SUVs, which is good, but we also believe that there’s more than that.”

Kia revealed the striking concept late last year as the latest evolution of its Opposites United design language. Like every recent Kia show car, it’s dramatic and has a design that the company says is supposed to be emotionally engaging. But it’s not yet ready for prime time.

EV Tech Needs To Develop

“At this point, it is more strategic,” Karim said when asked by Autocar why Kia doesn’t start building it today. “It’s a pure EV, and the price of doing a high-performance EV is what is slowing us down. Hopefully, the upward movement of EVs keeps going. I think there will be more openness to this [type of] car. At least that’s what we’re betting on.”

Kia built the Stinger for just five and a half years before killing it off in 2023. It launched with a 2.0-liter turbo four and a 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6, picked up a 2.5-liter four at the facelift, and was briefly offered with a 2.2-liter turbo-diesel in some markets. While enthusiasts like ourselves would like Kia to capture some of the ICE magic in a successor, this doesn’t appear likely.

“We’re car people,” Kia head of interior design Jochen Paesen said. “We grew up on the side of a race track hearing V8s, but those are not the things that the younger generation care as much about. It actually doesn’t trigger them. It triggered us, but we’re living in a different age, so understanding what triggers the younger generation and gets them emotionally tied in and emotionally interested, that’s important.”