You know Kia as a car maker – but it’s an absolute industrial mega-power at home It was the biggest Kia EV9 I’d ever encountered. So big it could easily be identified even as it loomed over the horizon. But then, squinting through eyes bloodshot from the time difference to London, it dawned on me the Godzilla EV9 was no such thing but was in fact a coach. A Kia Granbird Premium, no less, hauled by its 12.7-litre diesel six, which Google tells me can still be paired with a manual box. It was the vanguard of a long convoy heading to the Namyang R&D facility we’d just left, to…
This 47-seat, 12.7-litre Kia is a metaphor for Korean industry
