Genesis - Best Luxury car under 50k!

[JOwest]

The 2009 Genesis just won the Best Luxury car under 50K in the Canadian Car of the Year Awards. It beats out the Audi A3, Acura TL, Infiniti G37X and the Saab 9-3 Sport Combi The journalists said the Genesis has a good chance of winning the Best new Car of the Year Award as well.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

Wow!! Great news! Especially the possibility of getting the New Car of the Year award! Very, very impressive! THAT would be tremendous news!! But this, so far, is really excellent.. Thank you for posting this up!

 

[ConceptVBS]

Just for your information, the Genesis is also a contender in Motor Trend's Car of the Year award as well.

 

[GS300rich]

Hope it wins the Car of the year award, definately deserves it. I have a sinking suspicion that it will go to the GT-R though

 

[EdVoylesHyundai]

Hope it wins the Car of the year award, definately deserves it. I have a sinking suspicion that it will go to the GT-R though

That would be a shame as one of the major factors in the "COTY" award is supposed to be market significance. The GT-R is just another sports car from a company that has been making great sports cars for decades. The Genesis has literally changed the landscape of the entry-level luxury market as well has put the name "Hyundai" on so many more lips. I think the Genesis (and Coupe to follow) have MUCH more market significance than the GT-R, which I do happen to fantasize about, BTW. Hopefully the editors can keep their heads on straight and not be pwn3d by the GT-R's brute performance numbers.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

That would be a shame as one of the major factors in the "COTY" award is supposed to be market significance. The GT-R is just another sports car from a company that has been making great sports cars for decades. The Genesis has literally changed the landscape of the entry-level luxury market as well has put the name "Hyundai" on so many more lips. I think the Genesis (and Coupe to follow) have MUCH more market significance than the GT-R, which I do happen to fantasize about, BTW. Hopefully the editors can keep their heads on straight and not be pwn3d by the GT-R's brute performance numbers.

Agreed. The Hyundai Genesis has turned the "entry level" luxury market into a very luxurious one...

 

[racerx]

Agreed. The Hyundai Genesis has turned the "entry level" luxury market into a very luxurious one...

I must co-sign on this comment.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

I must co-sign on this comment.

The Lexus ES did it first.. It was almost pure luxury at the entry level. Now Hyundai took it to a NEW level with technology and RWD power... The only thing "entry level" about the Hyundai Genesis is the price.

 

[Canuck Genesis V8]

Unfortunately Nissan GT-R won the Motortrend Car of the Year. Oh well, maybe the Genesis will win the Canadian Car of the Year. It doesn't really matter to me. I'm driving the car of the year already and loving every minute I squeeze the gas pedal on my silky smooth V8 Genesis. This is 115hp more then I've ever had and its addictive!!

 

[gerryb]

If you count the rating stats, the Genesis came in second place for Motor Trend COTY. Not bad at all...

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[Sal Collaziano]

Any links, guys? I can't find it on their website...

 

[Canuck Genesis V8]

Here's the Motortrend COTY link.

http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear...car_of_the_year_winner_nissan_gt_r/index.html

 

[Sal Collaziano]

Here's the Motortrend COTY link.

http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear...car_of_the_year_winner_nissan_gt_r/index.html

Thank you..

It looks like a lot of people agree that the Hyundai Genesis should have won car of the year.

 

[C6Shortimer]

Good to know as I'm considering the Genesis as a replacement for my Infiniti I35.

 

[Simonwpb]

Here's the Motortrend COTY link.

http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear...car_of_the_year_winner_nissan_gt_r/index.html

Here is what MT said about the Genesis as a finalist in the article. Their one knock is "ride quality".
I think calling the car an 'impersonator' (suggesting our Genesis is merely a copy of a Lexus) is a cheap shot ...

2009 Hyundai Genesis
The Impersonator

What They Did Right: Almost everything. Besides its mechanical refinement, the interior is tastefully restrained in its use of stitched leather and simple shapes.

Room For Improvement: Ride quality on freeway heaves, needs a more distinctive personality, legroom for tall drivers.

Yogi Berra's great line, "deja vu all over again," has frequently been repurposed to automotive occasions, but it's hard to think of a better one than this case of Hyundai's new Genesis luxury sedan. Way back in 1989, Toyota introduced a big luxury sedan it called the Lexus LS 400-remember that? It was a car, Toyota declared, that would charge the imperial gates of Mercedes-Benz and BMW wearing nothing more than naked value, zenlike quality, and premium performance.

Where Yogi's deja vu comes in is that, almost 20 years later, Hyundai is not only reenacting Lexus's yellowing battle plan, but wickedly using it to do to Lexus exactly what Lexus did to those one-time fat and happy German luxocar builders.

No, Hyundai's Genesis isn't a separate brand as Lexus is. But it's a car so apart from anything the Korean firm is associated with that it might as well be. Like those early Lexi, the Genesis has that same many-luxury-cars-morphed-into-one sort of appearance. The shape is neither soaringly sonorous nor a sour note. It's comfortably familiar, more Andy Williams than Placido Domingo. And of all the Genesis's many impersonated Lexus qualities, the most notable is its steering feel, which replicates the LS's highly oiled, precision-bearing, sensation, spot on.

So, too, the car's silky yet quick acceleration. In V-8-guise (a 290-horse V-6 comes standard), 60 mph can be dialed up in as little as five and a half seconds. Yet, even in ordinary go-with-the-flow acceleration, the Genesis's all-new 4.6-liter, 368-horse V-8 (*using premium fuel raises output to 375 horses and 333 pound-feet) is such a refined sweetheart that Deutschland's and Japan's brightest engineers ought to be sensing the hot breath of their South Korean counterparts on their necks right about now. The Genesis's sole defect in its Lexus channeling? Its ride quality, which, in the opinion of a few of our testers' tushes, has seemed to periodically lapse into an awkward heaving.

The headline here, of course, is the car's profound value story: It's tens of thousands below its Tokyo competition. A compelling argument, to be sure. And when Hyundai irons out its last wrinkles (as it assuredly will) in its next generation, maybe it will be enough to commend it as our Car of the Year.

 

[GripperDon]

Here is what MT said about the Genesis as a finalist in the article. Their one knock is "ride quality".
I think calling the car an 'impersonator' (suggesting our Genesis is merely a copy of a Lexus) is a cheap shot ...

2009 Hyundai Genesis
The Impersonator

What They Did Right: Almost everything.

Room For Improvement: Ride quality on freeway heaves, needs a more distinctive personality, legroom for tall drivers.

The Genesis's sole defect in its Lexus channeling? Its ride quality, which, in the opinion of a few of our testers' tushes, has seemed to periodically lapse into an awkward heaving.

I selected sections of the quote to illustrate the wide ranging serious of the ride problem. We just had, Genesis380 sell his Genesis at a staggering loss and buy a different car because of Ride Quality and Hyundai let him do it without attempting a fix. His faire-well post reflects how likely he is to be a sterling reference.

 

[Sayantsi]

I don't think the ride quality is as serious as you make it out to be. Not sure why you pulled up a thread that hadn't been touched in almost a year, but the Genesis ride quality is generally considered good, auto journalists state thats its almost perfect, and very few owners have serious complaints about it. Why they bought a car they don't like riding in is beyond me, and I know you are not happy with the ride of your car, but this spamming about ride quality everywhere is getting old imo.

 

[dataguy]

I don't think the ride quality is as serious as you make it out to be. Not sure why you pulled up a thread that hadn't been touched in almost a year, but the Genesis ride quality is generally considered good, auto journalists state thats its almost perfect, and very few owners have serious complaints about it. Why they bought a car they don't like riding in is beyond me, and I know you are not happy with the ride of your car, but this spamming about ride quality everywhere is getting old imo.

To be fair, Sayantsi, replying to every suspension and new model thread counter-pointing and telling them that they're spamming, is somewhat hypocritical. Whether it's a problem, 80/20, or personal preference, it's not something that you can cite data on because the data is not scientific. It's self-selected, which serves only to prove whatever point the poster wants to make.