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Report: Hyundai Genesis won't get all-wheel drive until next gen

Sal Collaziano

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According to the sleuths at Car and Driver, the current Hyundai Genesis won't come with all-wheel drive. Instead, buyers will have to wait until at least 2014 before the traction-adding tech shows up on the company's luxury four-door. That may also mean that the Genesis Coupe and the lengthy Equus will miss out on all-wheel drive for another few years until the Korean automaker can come up with a refreshed platform. Hyundai CEO John Krafcik has long made it clear that the Genesis twins and the Equus would receive an all-wheel drive option in the future, but we were hoping that we'd see a variant of the refreshed-for-2012 model that churns from all four wheels.

As Car and Driver points out, the Genesis Sedan has seen fairly strong sales since its introduction, and the addition of all-wheel drive will likely help the model inch ever closer toward that magic 30,000 unit-per-year mark. Unfortunately, with at least three years before an all-new model touches down, buyers will have to content themselves with the rash of more powerful engines, a reworked suspension and refined visuals that Hyundai recently unveiled.Report: Hyundai Genesis won't get all-wheel drive until next gen originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 13 May 2011 11:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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Old news, confirmed last January by my dealer's call to Hyundai. (That it won't be available for the 2012 MY.)
What may be new news is that it won't be available for the 2013 MY either.
C&D may be right, they may be wrong.
 
Guess I'll be keeping the Audi a few more years........sigh!
 
damn that is really bad news, when my lease is up i will have to go to another company for 3 years. I can't drive that car in the snow i just can't!!!!!
 
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