Five Reasons Love for Hyundai Genesis Will Spike

[News Man]

Keith Griffin from TorqueNews.com reports 5 reasons that the love for Hyundai Genesis in the European continent will spike. How many more reasons can you add to Keith's points?

Original story with reader comments at http://www.torquenews.com/108/5-reasons-love-hyundai-genesis-will-spike

One of those silly surveys that gloms onto a holiday was released on Valentine's Day showing the Hyundai Genesis was tied for the honor of most-loved, near-luxury car on the market. It was tied with the Lexus ES 350, which has to be the strangest automotive odd couple ever. But there are 5 reasons love for the Genesis will make it stand alone next year.

The survey, by Strategic Vision, measured an owner's love/hate relationship with their vehicles. Heck, lets have the press release speak for itself: "Dr. Darrel Edwards, Ph.D. reports, 'We completed over a decade of research and consulting in determining how to capture the ways that people talk about their loves. We discovered that the natural language was in a ‘Love-Hate’ context with nuances in-between.' Vehicle buyers speak their minds, saying whether they Hate or Love their vehicles, or particular aspects of the vehicle and the experiences they deliver.

"According to Dr. Edwards, 'The report of Most Loved Vehicles in America captures a vehicle’s total emotional response from buyer-drivers. The industry is mature enough to actually accept ‘True Love’ as a core comprehensive, interactive and discriminating emotional response."

In other words, blah, blah, blah.

But now Hyundai has a challenge to make the 2015 Hyundai Genesis the most-loved near luxury sedan. Here are five things that could put it over the top so it's no longer tied with that bland sedan known as the ES 350.

• It's going to be the best-looking Genesis ever and one of the best-looking sedans on the road.
• Multi-mode all-wheel-drive availability because true sports sedans now need all-wheel-drive capability.
• It has the more interior passenger space in its class by almost 10 cubic feet.
• The heart of the Genesis 5.0 is the award-winning 5.0-liter Tau V8 engine producing 420 horsepower at 6,000 rpm and 383 lb. ft. of torque at 5,000 rpm.
• Genesis offers a Hyundai first, Automatic Emergency Braking, utilizing sensor fusion technology to help avoid a potential collision or reduce its impact.

That's just five of the top reasons. Surely you have more. Feel free to comment below.

 

[Mark_888]

I think it is going to be hard to compare a fully loaded 2015 Genesis with all those great features (AWD, 5.0 engine, Automatic Emergency Braking, etc) with an ES350, because the Lexus is about $10K less. Of course, we don't even know if the US version will have the Tau 5.0 and AWD in one package, but that is another story. The ES350 has always been a bit of a boring car, but that might also mean excellent reliability, which is why it is so popular.