Fashion designer Brandon Maxwell, supermodels Candice Swanepoel and Joan Smalls, baseball legend and CEO of A-ROD CORP, Alex Rodriguez, writer and TV host Derek Blasberg, and social media superstar Cameron Dallas, “got stung” when they met up in New York City to race one of the year’s most highly anticipated new automotive arrivals – the all-new 2018 Kia Stinger, with model Candice Swanepoeltaking home bragging rights as the celebrity that “worked the runway” faster than her celebrity competition.
Penned in Germany by style geniuses Peter Schreyer and Gregory Guillaume, the neck-twisting Stinger fastback is a modern interpretation of a gran turismo, and was honed on the legendary Nürburgring circuit by Albert Biermann. As the highest performance production vehicle in Kia’s history, the Stinger rockets to 60 MPH in just 4.7-seconds.
A massive undertaking by Kia converted a slice of the Big Apple into a fully functioning race track. Timing lights, viewing platforms and VIP tents created the perfect venue to pit the competitors against each other and the clock.
