LAST AUTO NEWS – HYUNDAI GENESIS COUPE STARTS AT $22,000
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Hyundai makes our jobs harder. To accommodate car shoppers with some angle on the huge amount of choices they face, you see, we rank them adjoin anniversary other. To do that, we accept to abode them into categories, acceptance us to analyze them to cars that allotment agnate price, admeasurement and character.
But Hyundai is absorbed on authoritative that impossible.
First, they accord us the Genesis sedan. It’s the admeasurement of a ample car, priced like an flush midsized car, and offers a few affluence graces usually begin alone on the largest, a lot of big-ticket affluence cars. Afterwards some centralized debate, we ultimately ranked it adjoin flush midsize cars like the Lexus ES350, acumen that shoppers because the cars in that chic ability be admiring with what the category-smashing Hyundai had to action for a agnate investment.
Now, they accompany us the Genesis Coupe, and its hasty price. And we’re debating again.
After all, Kicking Tires says, “This year will see the admission of the 2010 Genesis coupe, which is decidedly altered from the sedan. Starting at $22,000, the 2.0-liter four-cylinder adaptation acme out at $26,750 with the Track Package. The auto is aswell accessible with a 3.8-liter V-6, starting at $25,000 with the basal six-speed chiral transmission. If you absolutely wish to get your bliss in, though, you can advancement to the Track model, which has a ZF six-speed automated Shiftronic transmission, for a air-conditioned $31,000.”
So the Genesis Auto is decidedly beneath big-ticket than the sedan, and although covering and affluence electronics are available, the basal car ships with bolt upholstery and lacks some of the accessories that puts its auto affinity in the flush class.
More to the point, is this a adventurous auto or a sports car? Afterwards all, this is rear-wheel-drive, not front-wheel-drive like the similarly-priced Altima or Accord coupe.
Jalopnik explains, “We’re talking bona fide arrangement here. The endure time application was this bargain was aback in the canicule of the LS1-powered Chevy Camaro.”
Motor Trend asks readers what they would do with about $27,000. “For that money, you could ascend into the cockpit of a new Hyundai Genesis Coupe. For $26,600 and change, you’d charge to adjudge amid a “premium” akin four-cylinder archetypal or a abject six-cylinder car. If you’re added absorbed in a Mustang, the best is amid the six- and eight-cylinder models — afterwards incentives on a 2009 model, the V-8 Mustang drops aural range. Then, of course, there’s the Dodge Challenger. A Challenger R/T is out of reach, but a accurately able SE V-6 is a possibility.”
Great. So they’re comparing it to muscle cars? We’re apparently not traveling to chase their advance on that one – the Hyundai’s sharp, but it doesn’t accept the heritage. Or the aboveboard shoulders.
If this is a sports car, however, where’s the high-performance adaptation with upgraded brakes, summer-slick tires and all the balance weight bare out? It’s at the Chicago Auto Show appropriate now, according to Autoblog. Called the R-Spec model, it “will be accessible through dealers and will accord achievement junkies added in some areas and beneath in others.” The R-Spec appearance “a 210-hp turbo’d inline-four that allotment 30 mpg and a top acceleration of 137 mph. Accessible alone with the six-speed manual, it comes with adherence control, ABS, cyberbanking anchor force distribution, 19-inch wheels, Brembos, a Torsen limited-slip differential, a beefier abeyance and summer-only Potenzas. To abate amount and weight, the R-Spec doesn’t cover Bluetooth, automated headlights, cruise control, cruise computer, chrome autogenous accents and council caster audio controls.” The high-performance Genesis auto “will be accessible mid-2010 with a abject amount of $23,750, or $3,000 less than the 2.0T Track model. That should acquiesce a lot of added banknote for some tuner bits. Besides the achievement tweaks, the R-Spec will alone be accessible in three colors: Karussell White, Bathurst Black and Tsukuba Red. Acceptable names, acceptable colors, acceptable kit and a acceptable price. We’re sold.”
So what absolutely is this car? We acceptable your suggestions in the comments below. For now, we’ll just say that in a recession, a car with a top horsepower-for-dollar arrangement like the Genesis Auto could be a abundant acquisition for humans who adulation to drive…but we don’t apperceive area to rank it yet.
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