What have we here; an official Kia concept for a sports pickup truck, a leaked internal study, the work of an imaginative independent designer, or something we may have seen before and it somehow escapes my memory at this moment -you never know)?

If you’re asking me, I wouldn’t hurry to jump on the Kia-origin ship just yet, even though the people at Kia-World who shared the photo with us are talking about a “recently leaked designer drawing”.

Whoever styled the pickup truck study was undoubtedly inspired by Kia’s recent GT4 Stinger Coupe Concept from last month’s Detroit Auto Show, as the former shares a plethora of similar design cues with the latter, ranging from the vertical headlamps to the hood vents and toned fenders.

What say you?

By John Halas

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