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Kia Australia has yet to make any decision regarding participation in the Supercars series, Chief Operating Officer Damien Meredith told MOTOR today.
While confirming discussions with a number of teams and Supercars itself have taken place and are ongoing, Meredith said “they’ve all come to us [and] we say the same thing to all of them: ‘We haven’t made a decision yet’.”
Kia’s new Stinger GT, rendered here in Supercar form by SS Media, is powered by a 3.3-litre twin-turbo V6, making it eligible for Supercar’s new Gen2 regulations, due to be introduced in 2018.
This is not to say a Kia couldn’t appear on the grid earlier than this, however, as Meredith says Kia “wouldn’t care” if a team wished to run a Stinger of its own accord, in a similar manner to the way Erebus campaigned privately-funded Mercedes-AMG E63s between 2013-2015.
Nissan has also committed to the 2018 season, however whether it will continue with the Altima remains to be seen as the model was recently withdrawn from the Australian market.
