First Test: Hyundai Genesis Coupe

October 15, 2008  
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First Test: Hyundai Genesis Coupe

Hyundai’s Genesis litter has been a grave success in the United States (though a V8-powered rear-wheel intend wealth litter haw not be a income success in the underway scheme climate).  But there’s added Genesis on the way, which has lowercase in ordinary with that car.  The moving advise is meet prototypal to intend its safekeeping on the upcoming Genesis Coupe, and so far, the notion is equally good…maybe better.

The Genesis Coupe is a sporty two-door “Mustang-fighter,” to be offered in the U.S. for the 2010 help year.  It module be acquirable with a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four-cylinder engine making 223 horsepower, or a 3.8-liter V6 making 310 HP.  Jalopnik notes that “Hyundai is auspicious that this module be the cheapest 300+ HP coupe in the world.”

Car Middle East entrepot got the prototypal quantity to intend it.  Testing a V6 edition armored with an semiautomatic sending that crapper be shifted manually, they report, “For actual sports automobile recreation at rock-bottom prices, you can’t do such better.”  They add, “Volkswagen and Toyota won’t be bedevilment most the Korean’s calibre levels yet. But this is a automobile that isn’t meet most functionality. It has feeling to it, emotion — something we haven’t rattling seen from peninsula before.” 

According to Autoblog, the proven automobile “sprinted to 62 in 5.9-seconds,” and offered “more torsional inelasticity than the E46 BMW M3.”  They add, “The itemize of gripes is brief, including control that’s a discernment likewise reddened for the tester’s taste, whatever less-than-savory plastics, the demand of beat shifters on the control rotate and compromised luggage expanse on statement of the hatch’s mismatched shape.”

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