$61,615 MSRP (6 seater, white exterior, carpet mats)
$54,581 Sale Price ($7034 / 11.42% discount)
$8000 Kia Rebate
$1500 VIN Specific Rebate
$0 Drive Off (includes first month payment)
$101 Flight cost
$50 Electric Company Rebate
1 year free tire+wheel protection ($50 deductible) included for free
23 payments remaining at $414.13/mo
Effectively $399/mo (includes 11% total Philly+PA taxes)
Couldn’t get calculator to 100% match up Calculator SIGNED! LINK
Found this deal by searching on Cargurus for the cheapest LLR in the nation, called dealer last week but they never got back to me. I decided to call back yesterday and spoke to a manager who worked out the deal with me over phone/text. Booked a $101 Frontier flight, got picked up at airport, signed, drove 6.5 hours, plus another 1.5 hour for charging stops and a nap.
Initial 425 mile drive home review, please note that I’ve owned the following EVs in the past 3 years:
Bolt, Lightning, Mach-E, Ioniq 5, Ioniq 6, Model 3, Model Y, Model X (currently have Ioniq 6 and EV9)
-Vented seats on base trim is great
-Seats/Headrest are comfy
-Display is very smooth/quick, seems upgraded from HI5/HI6
-Homelink on base trim is great
-6 Seater fits my needs
-Very quiet interior
-Fast enough even though it’s RWD
-Speakers are fine
-App is surprisingly good
-Charge curve is great, 10-80% in 25mins on a 350kw
-Enough legroom for 6 adults if 2nd row adults move forward a bit
-Huge frunk due to RWD
-Basically no subtrunk is annoying
-Wireless CarPlay is nice
-Wireless phone charger is slow, not vented like EV6
-USB C ports everywhere is great
-110V Outlet in the back is nice
-Efficiency is as expected, but will see how it does in the winter
-ADAS feels like it hugs right
-$40 micro transactions for display themes is big troll
-Phone as key is very nice
-Didn’t come with key card but good to know it exists
-There is manual preconditioning available!
-Manual key being outside of key fob is annoying
I see $9000 rebate in my location $7500 + $1500 specific vins. Similar to yours but a little different. I might try and see if I can get something close to this.
Congrats!! Love the EV9 so far… I got the Wind trim also in white.
Mine is at the dealer right now for a paint and tire vibration issue but they gave me an EV9 GT-Line loaner so I’m happy with that. I’m curious how the winter range will be on your LLR without the heat pump. With Kia / Hyundai only the AWD trims get the heat pump. Would be cool for out of spec to do a side by side winter test.
I’ve owned like 9 different EVs and have no complaints about the performance of this RWD model. However, I have a baby now so it’s not like I’m flooring it any time soon
I’ve been driving the gt line as a loaner right now… it’s super nice. The Land started leasing well after I got the Wind… with payments being close right now between both I would do the Land over the Wind as you get the 360 camera. Both are awesome cars though and either would serve someone well. I’ve never drive the LLR RWD yet.
One of the must have features that I hate Kia for not doing on lower trims was memory seat recall. The EV9 is our family car, so my wife drives it during the week and if we all go out, I drive. Manually changing seat position every time is super annoying. There were lots of other nice little features too, but that was the deal breaker on the lower trims for me.
