Where to Buy the 2027 Telluride in New England, Ranked by the Dealer's Doc Fee

The second-generation Kia Telluride is on sale now, and it is not a light update: new body, new turbo engine in place of the old V6, and the first Telluride Hybrid in the nameplate's history. Every New England Kia dealer sells the same SUV with the same window sticker. What changes from store to store is the documentation fee and whether it is already inside the advertised price. CarThrive has graded 37 New England Kia dealers on fee transparency. Four tie at the top with 92 A, 14 of the top 15 dealers itemize the fee inside the advertised price, and the fee itself runs from $395 to $999 across the region. On November 13 we also counted the new 2027 Telluride at the A-grade stores whose sites published readable inventory: 103 in total, and 49 of them are the new hybrid.

The SUV, briefly

Kia skipped the 2026 model year for the Telluride entirely and went straight to a second generation. The 3.8-liter V6 is gone. In its place: a 2.5-liter turbocharged four making 274 horsepower and 311 lb-ft of torque, which is 49 lb-ft more than the V6 managed, and a hybrid version of the same engine making 329 horsepower combined. Prices before the $1,545 destination charge: gas models run from the $39,190 LX to the $56,790 X-Pro SX Prestige, and the hybrid starts at $46,490. With destination, that is $40,735 to $58,335 for gas and $48,035 and up for the hybrid. It is built in West Point, Georgia, and the hybrid is the first hybrid Kia ever assembled in the United States. Our head-to-head with its platform twin is in Telluride vs. Palisade, and our running Telluride coverage is in the 2027 Telluride deals roundup. This article is about the other half of the purchase: where to buy it.

The top 15, ranked

Ranking is by CarThrive fee-transparency grade first, then by the fee itself, then by Google rating. The grade scores five things: the fee amount, whether the fee sits inside the advertised price, how clearly the dealer discloses it, consistency across the dealer's own pages, and whether forced add-ons ride along. It does not score service departments or sales staff, which is what the Google rating column is for. Telluride counts were read on each dealer's own inventory pages on November 13, 2026, and cover the A-grade stores; one wrinkle in that count is explained in the methodology note at the bottom.

Two things stand out in this table. First, the top of the Kia market is genuinely competitive on the fee: four stores share the 92 A ceiling, and the tie is broken by price, where Tasca's $399 undercuts the three Quirk stores' $499 by a clean $100. Second, the cheap fee and the top grade are not the same thing. Bald Hill Kia charges the lowest fee in New England at $395 but sits at 87 B because its own paperwork contradicts itself on the fee elsewhere. Fairfield Kia also charges $399 and sits at 77 B: its fee is inside the advertised price on new vehicles but added on top on used ones, which costs it half the in-price points. And the two best-reviewed stores in the region, Wagner Kia of Shrewsbury (4.8 stars, 3,076 reviews) and McGovern Kia of Norwood (4.7 stars, 2,306 reviews), sit at 81 B on the strength of their $595 fees rather than any games with the math.

Who has the Tellurides: the A-grade stores

Every A-grade dealer (88 and up), with its live 2027 Telluride count read on November 13, 2026. Five of the eight stores published readable counts that day; the three Quirk stores' inventory pages blocked our automated read, and their cards say so rather than carrying a borrowed number. Filter by state to narrow the list.

What the fee difference is worth

State average doc fees in New England run from $415 in Rhode Island to $749 in Connecticut (Maine $550, Massachusetts $558, Vermont $553, New Hampshire $604). Against those averages: Tasca's $399 is the rare fee that beats even the lowest state average in the region. Quirk's $499 sits $59 under the Massachusetts average and $105 under the New Hampshire average. Nashua Kia's $464 is $140 under the New Hampshire average. At the other end of the full list, Kia of Old Saybrook charges a $999 conveyance fee, $250 over the Connecticut average, and Kia of Groton charges $899.

Across all 37 graded Kia dealers, the gap between the cheapest fee ($395 at Bald Hill) and the most expensive ($999 at Old Saybrook) is $604, on the same SUV. That is real money, but it is not the whole negotiation: a dealer charging $599 who discounts the vehicle $800 further still wins. The fee matters most as a tiebreaker between similar deals, and as a tell. A store that publishes its fee inside its prices is showing you its math; a store that will not is asking you to find out at the desk.

The hybrid split is the other story in the counts. Of the 103 new Tellurides we could count at A-grade stores, 49 are Hybrids. For a first-year powertrain on a redesigned model, that is a deep allocation, and it means hybrid shoppers are not limited to one or two stores: Tasca lists 14, Commonwealth 15, Nashua 9, Herb Chambers Burlington 6, and Rowe 5.

Every graded Kia dealer in New England

The complete list, all five states with Kia stores in the grading set. Scores are out of 100 on the fee-transparency rubric; A is 88 and up. Two stores are missing on purpose: Bill Dube Kia in Somersworth, New Hampshire and Blasius Kia in Watertown, Connecticut publish no documentation fee anywhere we could find, so there is no fee to grade. Route 6 Auto Mall Kia in Swansea has two grade profiles on the hub for the same store; it is listed once here.

How to use this list

Start with two or three stores near you from the top half of the ranking and get out-the-door quotes on the same trim. The only number that matters is the total: vehicle price, the doc fee wherever it sits, and any add-ons, all in writing. Then check whether the advertised price already includes that fee (at 14 of the top 15, it does). Compare totals, then let the fee break ties. If your local store sits low on this list, that is not a reason to drive three hours on its own; it is a reason to ask for the full breakdown before you visit, and to get the competing quote from a store that publishes its math. Inventory turns over daily, so confirm the specific Telluride you want is on the lot before you go; in-transit units can usually be reserved with a deposit.

Shopping Kia more broadly? Our guides rank every Kia dealer around New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut with the same fee data, and the dealer grades hub covers 732 dealers across all brands in New England.