Hyundai’s Genesis becoming a model lineup on its own, just like the Lexus

That was the plan all along. Genesis to be a Lexus.

— wins555 (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 12:34:46 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 14   

I will say I do like the new grille, but in this economy an American V8 Rear drive sedan at 1/3 this price is the better value.

— mercuryguy (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 12:51:15 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

This Genesis brand is bringing better designs than Lexus at the moment IMO.
Stick a Lexus logo on the hood and no one would complain.
Smart drivers know that Lexus was ridiculed back in the early 90s too and look where it has come...expect the Genesis(Hyundai) to do the same, maybe just quicker...a similar story like Samsung and LG giving the Japs like Sony and Panasonic a run for their money...

I personally would stick to Lexus and Sony though...Japanese tech is still superior, but not by much now...

— My_Ultimate_Driving_Machine (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 12:56:58 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 9   

Lexus have a very unclear future....Genesis will steal a lot of customer from lexus but not to much from the German luxury car makers....Lexus is getting terrain but still, it have a long way to go before to reach the German in world wide sales, and now with Genesis, it will be almost imposible, at least, I belive that you won´t see that in this generation david969...also pay attention to the words of

— My_Ultimate_Driving_Machine

very wise. Lexus is great but most of customers of German cars won´t swap to Lexus or Genesis but most of Lexus buyers will be very willing to try Genesis....in my case I still think that Lexus have the edge over most of the brands in relability, but I won´t change my Merc just for that and there are a lot of smart customers that do not feel that reliabilty is enough to change their brands, Audi, BMW, Mercedes or Jaguar, they are not sleping.

— Yonder7 (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 1:40:37 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

At least Hyundai and the Genesis have Toyota and Lexus respectively beat when it comes to design - by a mile.

— Willis (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 3:10:02 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

One thing is for sure. Lexus wishes that they had the Hyundai designers. Cause the Current Lexus designs are nothing special.

— LexSucks (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 4:00:55 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

There you go. Genesis could be the new brand name for Hyundai's luxury division. It only seems right.

Genesis sedan
Genesis coupe
Genesis Equus

?

— Agent63 (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 4:20:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

The Genesis "sub brand" of Hyundai will bring one element Lexus is missing. It's spelled V-A-L-U-E. And, yes, their products will be competitive. Check out the Edmunds Inside Line comparo of the Genesis sedan to the Lexus GS350 or the Genesis Coupe to the Infiniti G37.

— 4ron (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 5:48:56 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

If you look at Hyundai Sales, the United States even with increasing Hyundai sales still need lots of work compared to the rest of the world. Its like the US car buyer is Racist against Hyundai. A car company that has been in the top ten reankings every years this decade, and for 3 years tied at #1 with Honda.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 8:45:16 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

The Superior Korean Car is great value for money!!!!! Every last one of them From Hyundai to GMDaewooki. :)

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 8:29:28 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

bout time, good for "Hon-day" lol

@yonder7
"most of customers of German cars won´t swap to Lexus or Genesis but most of Lexus buyers will be very willing to try Genesis"

WRONG little grasshopper, i hope u mean Europe but in the USA, LMAO u cant be serious

dont forget all LS drivers where ex-S klasse n 7er drivers...FACT
for 17 yrs 80% Lexus drivers were German car drivers cant forget Buick and Caddy...FACT

— Denali (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 8:43:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Those screaming from the rooftops about Hyundai's design being "better" than Lexus are simply off their rocker. Hyundai is blatantly ripping designs from BMW and Lexus for all of their new cars. Let's not forget that Lexus is still ridiculed to this day for lifting the most basic design cues from BMW. So Hyundai comes along and does the same thing to an even higher degree and all of the sudden they get praise? Sure. Just remember that all the sales that Hyundai are supposedly stealing from Lexus, they are also stealing from BMW and Mercedes.

— Anthony (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 9:25:25 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

As long as people can see the Hyundai Accent in the background, the Genesis will have a hard time competing against normal brands.

COTY doesn't mean jack in a slow year. I've only seen 1 Genesis with Ontario plates, bested by the 4 X6s I've seen.

Hyundai has about 3 years to make Genesis before the Chinese brake Hyundai.

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 9:57:20 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Hyundaismoke,
Hyundai's sales are so weak because all the incentives they toss at customers cheapens the image. The Genesis already has huge incentives on it.
Why buy a wannabe Japanese car (sporting the last generation designs) when you can afford a Japanese car with new designs?

— huu76 (View Profile)

Posted on 4/20/2009 10:49:42 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

But this Generation of Japanese models have designs that are going out of control. Mercedes sells A classes huu, and Hyundai clams that its next gen Accent will be an A -class competitor. From the designs I see from KIA as a hint, and being inside of am Elantra Touring, I dont doubt it.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 4/21/2009 3:40:58 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

The Accent and A-Class will share the same motors by the way, since Mercedes now uses Hyundai small car engines.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 4/21/2009 3:42:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

So it wouldnt be a competitor. Hyundai Plans on selling the Next Gen Accent only where its popular In: Austrailia, China, United States, Canada, Mexico, and South Korea. While the rest of the world gets the i20. Hyundai has sold 5 million Accents in those 6 countries alone, while selling 2 million in the rest of the world. Hyundai has to give the Accent the treatment, they want to have 35 MPG fleet mileage in 5 1/2 years. That next gen Accent will mostly likely be using the 1.6 L Gamma Engine used in the i20 that gets 130 HP and 51 mpg. The Hybrid mated to the Hyundai 115 HP 1.6 and a 20 HP electric motor might crack 60 MPG for only a $3000 premium. This current Gen-Accent is a stop gap between the old rugged utilitarian Accents, and the future premium Accents.

— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 4/21/2009 3:51:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1   

Making Genesis their luxury marque would be a smooth move and help differentiate their customer base more. In other words, your Genesis sedan now becomes a $50K car!! I say go for it. It'll only make the other marques improve their game or get out of the way.

— r_driver04 (View Profile)

Posted on 4/21/2009 12:34:42 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Of course the design are better because there not there own I see allitlle M a little RL, GS, LS, E series name it the list goes own garbage just like this site.

— mikeydred20 (View Profile)

Posted on 4/21/2009 1:25:33 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1