I own a 2009 Azera Limited. Love the car except for a "nervous" ride and road nose on some payments that have textured surfaces and/or frost heaves. The former create a surprising amount of road noise, the latter sometimes tend to snap your head back excessively.
Has anyone any experience comparing the ride of the Genesis sedan to the Azera Limited? I seem to read a lot of contradictory reviews re the Genesis as to luxury quality ride.
Thanks
I actually traded in a 2006 Azera Limited on My 4.6 Genesis back in November. In my case as far as suspension goes I liked my Azera better. I never had any suspension issues with my Azera. Yes it did have more body roll when flying around a corner than my Genesis but it had a much smoother ride.
The suspension likes and dislikes with the Genesis are about as different as people. Many like it as is........some would like a bit of an improvement (my catagory) and some absolutely hate it!
I in fact was a little hard on one member (Doug). From his report his Genesis suspension went completly wild at times and was completly unbearable. In fact he got rid of his Genesis. I guess I got upset seeing the same story over and over not only on this forum but others as well.
I was just concerned that to many posts of that nature might falsely convince people that every Genesis does exactly the same thing. Mine is no where near what he experianced and many others aren't either.
I just hated for people to click on the suspension topic and then see so many negetive commments. I didn't do a very good job of explaining what I was trying to say.
The only thing I wanted people to remember is that if you have a person who had a worse case suspension problem and posted it in one form or another 100 times is one thing.
What would scare me far worse is 100 people reporting a disaster suspension problem just one time each!
As for Doug...........I do feel sorry for him because of the money he lost getting rid of his Genesis. I wished he could have rode it out because you loose a ton of money so soon after the purchase!
Also in looking at things in his eyes I would be a very unhappy camper as well and I suppose I might be tempted to put up as many posts as I could about a bad suspension problem. He does have the right to his opinion and as I said I was a bit hard on him! I just didn't want the repetition of his posts to confuse people into thinking that this was normal for every Genesis.
Now yes I am now repeating myself but I do feel like the suspension needs to be improved meaning I want a smoother ride. There are many people who have said they like it as is and they like to "feel the road". I get confused because I wonder then if these people like earthquakes, lots of turbulance when flying, and the old baffleless water beds to.
For my money I want a smooth ride even if I can't go flying around sharp corners quite as fast because as I see it I'm going straight down the road 99.9% of the time. I have mentioned owning several other Hyundai's because they have been trouble free for me. So I just think the Genesis should have had a more comfortable and smoother ride than Hyundai Sonata's, Elantra's, and Santa Fe's. In my case all those previous Hyundai's had smoother rides.
I just thought the Genesis should be better in this catagory as well since it's the luxury car of the group with the much higher price.
Despite this I in no way consider the Genesis as some kind of failure. It is in fact one awesome car! My two personal favorites are the Lexicon Sound System and the 375 HP V-8 power and still capable of 24 mpg mixed driving and 27 mpg all highway driving. Nice!
