2019 Genesis G70 3.3t vs Ford Mustang GT // Grow Up or Bro Down?

I'm sick of you buying bad cars, it's small, isn't it time you smoked? You seem a little more exciting on Wednesday night, don't listen to Stephanie, you're looking at the accelerator and my name is Thomas Holland and I'm James Englishman and you're probably thinking this is a weird comparison and it is, but you might end up at a point of your life where you go. I don't know if I want the bright orange 5L Mustang, maybe I want more. sophisticated Genesis g70 four-door and when we look at these cars, you will begin to realize that every aspect of the design plays with their character, yes, even their keys, what do you mean by keys?

The Genesis key is refined, reserved and sophisticated. yes, almost professional, yes, and then the key to the Mustang James I, this is a serious car, check it if you want the key to work, it is a proximity key, you have to be close to the car because at the beginning there was a carved day, wait, wait on Genesis, yes, Genesis. In fact, the G70 and God saw what it had done and it was good, under the hood of the G17 was a 3.3-liter twin-turbo V6 making 365 horsepower and 376 pound-feet of torque which, unlike the Mustang, It is given to all four. wheels and yet the design gives no clue as to how fast this car really is, all things that purchasing rights should do for a special vehicle, but we'll get to that in a moment, the only words that matter here are naturally aspirated v8 manual. and rear-wheel drive, the rest you just find a way to justify to yourself and maybe your spouse, so this is a question I've asked often: a Mustang is too much of a statement, too much of a commitment, that the Genesis g70 was not. so good at what he does.

I wouldn't even ask this question. However, today we're going to drive each of these cars to find out if the Genesis is fun enough to keep an enthusiast happy or if the Mustang just has something extra. that you can't find anywhere else, so before you do, subscribe and ring the bell because we have a new review or comparison every Wednesday. Okay, so the Genesis isn't a naturally aspirated v8 that makes the sound of 10,000 Leones, but it is a 3.3-liter twin-turbo v6, what does that mean? It means you can rush. I put my foot down and it works.

It doesn't make the same sound as the Mustang, which is a shame because that thing sounds glorious. Thomas is bubbling. in front of me right now, so if you choose the less practical option, if you choose the car, it's a little bolder, more aggressive, the good news is you get one of the best driving cars on sale today, but what? what does this have? what it doesn't have is an all wheel drive system which means you can accelerate with confidence and you know it will just reduce power ok yes it reaches speeds that are illegal very quickly yes certified fast absolutely not a speed blinding, but it's definitely above that speed where you say, well, you know, if I need to get out before a car comes, I can do it, it's faster than that, okay, so we know this car can move, But what else do you sacrifice by not buying something? as loud and proud as a Mustang, well we actually have an NST in this car and Brembo brakes, who would have thought?

If you had that racer kid's dream of owning something with Brembo brakes, you'll actually still get it with this Genesis, which is quite welcome, the Mustang GT is truly one of the most fun and attractive cars you can buy, point that includes all cars because although this generation, as we know, has moved away from the solid rear axle with independent rear suspension, we do have some fancy magnetic dampers. There is a lot of good technology here. Very high redline on this V8. It's still difficult. It's still a car you need to pay attention to when driving in the wet if you're below the temperature the tires want.

When you end up with a car that attacks you very abruptly and very aggressively, that doesn't mean it's not controllable, although that's what happens in a straight line, in the dry, you can lighten the rear tires in a really, very, very way. fun way and not only do you get everything you get with a much more stylish package inside and what I can only assume are more comfortable seats, the Mustang is equipped with Recaros while this one has these beautiful seats stitched on. I'm also of the opinion that the Mustang in the spec where Thomas drives an orange GTV with loud exhausts is a fairly one-dimensional car and I'm willing to change that opinion by driving it;

However, this car has multiple personality, which is very good if you are in the city you can have it in comfort mode the cushioning is super soft it handles bumps very well I live in the center so there are tram tracks and potholes and potholes and this It's been an absolute breeze so when I'm in the city I'll drive in comfort mode, in fact there's even a smart mode that tries to guess how you want to use the car so whether you're driving around town or on the highway or it changes you to Eco mode and if you push hard enough it will switch you to sport mode the sport mode in this car does a sport mode in this, shut up Thomas, the ten speeds in the five liter Mustang are very good.

I've driven the car with ten gears and it shifts incredibly fast. Paddles are fun to use, but if you're buying a Mustang you really want the manual, that's it if you're buying a car that's really less practical, has less storage space, is less sophisticated, maybe less adult. You want the one that makes you have to drive more because that's why you bought this one, so buy the manual transmission because the gears are incredibly sharp, the clutch is you have to learn how to handle the clutch properly the first time you get in to this. In the car, you might have a little bit of a rough shift because the clutch engages that way and that allows you to shift into top gears and just grab the next gear in the most aggressive way and that's what loosens the rear tires and en It's very funny, it really is very funny.

Let's put it this way: if you live in a snowy climate and are going to drive your Mustang all year round, leave the traction control on and get some snow tires. The sport mode in this car is quite interesting because normally when you have a sport mode in a car, it does three things, usually quite quickly: it will stiffen the suspension, it will sharpen the throttle response and it will make the steering wheel heavier and also many Sometimes the board starts to turn red, this does it all. those things, but what's most obvious and interesting when you switch it to sport mode and I'll do that now is that I had the seat bolsters that suddenly came in and hugged your back, something I hadn't imagined.

I've figured out how to do it outside of sport mode, but it's very easy for someone like me who lives thousands of miles from home. It makes me feel like my mother is hugging me and it's nice, it's not a violent maneuver. Now we are in sports mode. So come here, give me a hug. I like to be in sport mode now, before hitting a back road. I have a couple of driving modes here. I'm going to select Sport Plus. There is a track mode that disables traction control. It puts the exhaust all the way, the adjustable exhaust into track mode, but the Sport Plus mode gives you the sport steering, it gives you sport dampers on the sport exhaust and all of those things mean that the car is still usable on a road, but it's very fun to hear that.

To never get old, the Mustang has the availability of having a proper limited slip differential in the rear and now I don't know what it is, obviously, I have driven many cars with LSD in the rear, rear wheel drive cars like BMW M. The cars They have a fairly advanced, pneumatically actuated, electro-hydraulic clutch plate differential that can transfer torque in different ways. I don't know if I understood everything right, the point is that it is very advanced and it doesn't feel like you have an LSD all the time, this car feels like you have an LSD all the time in the low speed corners, you can feel it trying to send power to the inside wheel and it actually reminds me of driving a car with a welded differential because you can actually sometimes I don't know if that's how the differential is designed and the suspension setup, you can hear that the inside wheel It jumps, sometimes in a tight turn, which means that when you apply power it is ready to separate the rear and you can perform epic power slides in these cars and it is very controllable Lumet.

I've driven a Mustang on the track and I can tell you that yes, it feels pretty unruly on the road, sometimes you get some wet leaves and some mud and dirt and the rear end breaks and you go, but on a track, when these flowers Michelin Pilot Sport come up to temperature and you are really accelerating it into a fast corner, the car is well balanced and drivable so fast that this is a proper driver's car. and it's a well designed driver's car, okay Genesis, I'm proud of it, oh it just keeps traction. I love all-wheel drive, sometimes I really do.

There's something about being able to maintain traction, and while you're putting the pedal to the metal, that's it. It's very satisfying, guaranteed, if I did the same thing on the Mustang, I'd already have a Mustang. Everything about this car feels luxurious. Everything you touch. It has leather wrapped surfaces. Yes, one could accuse it of looking a bit like the inside of a coffin, but. You'd expect it to be a cozy place to be anyway and this is me trying to figure out what these cars are missing. All I can think about right now is massaging the seats, it has a sunroof, it has the head-up display. the heated and cooled seats also come with all the safety features like adaptive cruise control, no no, if you've driven any of the old Mustangs or any old Camaro or any old v8 powered car, they were pretty funny because the gears They were in those three gears. maybe they were incredibly long gears and it revved to I don't know 4000 rpm or something and you had this like it feels like this car doesn't have there's a fiftieth gt3 in there that's genuinely an exotic car this isn't just a transverse crank v8 normal that has some kind of exhaust note and it's really horrible and it fires like that and this is not my favorite type of engine.

I'm more of a Porsche. Six-cylinder kind of guy, but this car revs so high that it feels exotic, it doesn't feel like an old pony cart. I have a lot of really good technology in this car. I really do this digital group. This is the coolest part about the Mustang it's totally customizable each mode gives me a different screen it represents different things it looks like an old rev meter there's a drag strip mode which is a track mode there's a sport mode and they all have different indicator styles and I can customize the primary and secondary colors, so I can get green and now I have purple and green, it looks great.

I don't know why I also have an oil pressure gauge and it's like a proper old gauge. I feel like I want to. I want to tap on it to make sure it's working and you can also change the color of them. It's actually surprisingly fun and what is considered a luxury sedan and a Hyundai or Genesis luxury sedan Genesis as far as the looks of this car, I think the G in Genesis is guilty of being a little generic, I think it's like Grand Theft Auto said "let's make a luxury sports sedan" and then they did this.

It's definitely not ugly by any means, but on some level it feels like a combination of many of the two current downsides. The rest of the Mustang's interior is nothing special, the design is good, it's fine, but it's not, it's not of the highest quality. This is one of those things where every time I say this in a review, there are at least 50 people who will comment. and says: oh, you're wrong. Really good American interiors. Alright. I'm seeing things that I think maybe you wouldn't see if you'd only driven a Muscle Car. You might not notice what I'm comparing it to, but it's quality.

The leather is the quality of the materials that I am seeing and the quality of the leathers, there are like leather seams everywhere and you know that it is well made, there are no flaws, but the quality of the plastics and the leather is not very high, That's what I see. I'm talking about it's not bad, but the problem is that for the price, it actually costs more than that Genesis G 70. The Jameses are behind me a few cards back as he leaned over and has a car with a luxurious interior. this is not a fancy interior the

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is a very comfortable ride it's fast it's smooth the road noise is not loud on the highway i can talk at sixty miles an hour and i don't have to raise my voice at all and i would bet money you have You have to raise your voice in that Mustang.

The seating position is excellent. We have a power adjustable steering wheel and power seats. It is not a position for everyone that you cannot place this seat that adapts to your needs. the infotainment is very intuitive to use it has apple carplay android auto it's very clean the sound system is fantastic i really can'tcriticize this car for anything it lacks I think the only thing it still lacks a little bit is identity, but I think Genesis has made great strides in that because if you look at the previous generation it doesn't look as sharp as this one.

Now let's look at some of the problems I have with the Mustang as a daily vehicle, it's still a coupe in the back seats. they are really small, they are not very well made, no, I don't find these Recaros to be ultra comfortable, the normal Mustang seats are a little better, it is not a car that is easy to drive every day, you have to pay special attention when driving it you drive If it's cold or wet, the thing about driving a Mustang every day is that it's too much for most situations, it's like trying to perform dental surgery with a jackhammer, you'd have to be very careful and you'd probably still don't turn out well.

This car is fantastic, it has everything you need, it is fast, comfortable, it has all-wheel drive, but it is a Genesis, it is a brand. that hasn't yet been fully established as something that can be said in the same conversation as things like BMW Alfre mare Mercedes and I think that's what's important about this car is that it's not aimed at that demographic, it's a car that appeals to someone who just wants to buy something that is quality. I guess what I'm trying to say is that no one with a supreme hat, backpack or sweater basically says that if you have a supreme tag anywhere on your person you're not buying a Genesis, but it does have the same sense of occasion as a Bright orange manual Mustang v8.

I'm about to find out now. Here's the thing, while the Mustang is a very fun driver's car, it's such a good car to drive every day and especially if you're going. to a track where you might not care about all that stuff because you can put the pedal to the metal and you're on it properly as I had to pay attention to accelerate in a straight line right there and it doesn't get old you drive and you might not care the fact that it's not the most sophisticated or refined car in the world because it's just so much fun, something I've been wanting to do for a long time because I've personally had this question.

Now I'm going to drive a Genesis g70 and that's a car that costs about the same and still has some really good performance numbers and I want to know if it's something I would go for. I'm okay with a Genesis because it's still fun enough to not need the rear-drive Mustang, so the media's first impression is that it has a much simpler interior and starts knocking on the door of the price range where the interior shouldn't suffer, but as we found out when we recently drove the first Camaro normally, when American car brands do it, they make up for it with a lot of performance and this has that, oh I forgot what a slap in the face the g70 is to everyone else automobile manufacturers.

For the price this car is so comfortable, orally fast, let's select sport mode please turn down the V6, there is plenty of torque available at low revs, this feels much easier to drive and that's why you might want one of these with so much torque right away, yeah, that's right. I love the G 70, it has a fantastic engine. You can get a rear wheel drive G 70 with a 2 liter turbo which honestly doesn't compete with the Mustang as the Mustang has it in every aspect and I'd get the Mustang beat that but this is still just as good and just as funny that it would be hard for me to justify it, but the thing is that thing is missing, that thing is missing, no, this sounds ridiculous and James shook his head at me earlier when I say this, but there's no danger.

These were car seats, maybe not good for a long trip but they feel very grippy, they fit me very well, in fact they are barely on the road, yes it sounds great and I know what it sounds like from outside. Because it was behind Thomas before, the brakes are sharper in this case, the acceleration is more aggressive in this case, it is louder instead of the Genesis' leather wrap services were greeted with slightly harder plastics in the interior and faux carbon fiber elements II in the center, which I'm not a big fan of that red line that's so high.

I only got to 4000 revolutions. They are in third year. I'm halfway to the red line, which also means that if you're in third gear and you're putting your foot down to get to the red line, you're probably going at a very illegal speed, no matter where you live, to me, a guy who frequents the track and really likes to drive at the limit on the road track, obviously the Mustang is just what he has. More so, you have to pay attention when you're driving it and although I complained about that, when you get into something like this it's a lot more subdued, so if you were going to drive a car every day I honestly don't know.

Which one would I want because I can drive rear wheel drive? I can handle it. It takes a little more brainpower to drive that thing when it's really greasy, but the g7 is still quick enough and there's plenty of confidence in it. way that doesn't involve any risk, but maybe that risk is what I'm looking for. I don't know at this point in my life. In a way I want the risk. In a way I want fun. I kind of want the advantage that the Mustang gives to the shifter which is nice and it's not nice and I'm not sure I've been in an MT recently.

On this I find the shifter on the MT to have a little too much throw, but this is a nice naughty shifter that the police just passed. which in the Genesis you're not really aware of the police when you're in the Genesis, but here it feels like you're in a cop magnet, you've got the bright orange car with the racing stripe and the spoiler and the loud noise, like that Keep that in mind if you want to stay under the radar but still go fast, the Genesis is probably the move, yeah the Genesis doesn't do that, it doesn't do that, oh oh, that's a hurry up, okay, if you don't like it the Russian Genesis, if you like the Russian Mustang, if you like the band, go for both cars because they both have good speaker systems.

I want to do that again and I'm going to say yes, no, that's how you get in trouble. This is how you get in trouble if you were someone who turned in your homework on time. This is not the car for you. The first march group lost the rear. No, the construction workers will see me. They know I don't belong. I'm sorry. I'll take your car, I just don't know, but what's so hard to decide? I literally don't know which of these cars is more fun because this is the G 70. I'll give you more information than maybe James.

We don't cover this is a longitudinally mounted rear wheel drive car, very similar to the powertrain of a BMW, which is no accident and many BMW engineers fault the design of this one, so the engine goes this way, the ve it goes like this. In front of me, the transmission tunnel goes down here until it differentiates itself from the rear and we have two axles in the front, obviously because it's all-wheel drive, which means the weight is very deep in the dash and it's very good. -Balanced vehicle: It is the type of car that understeers when you push it into a fast corner, however, if you enter the corner correctly, you may go a little further into the road or lift yourself in the middle of a corner in the right way , it will become very neutral is a car where you can find balance and still have a good time driving at the limit.

There's a sense of occasion in this car that the Genesis doesn't have if I had to pin it down. Like an occasion, it's that promotion that you just got over the years and you just made partner, whereas this is the kind of occasion where you just got divorced and your friends come over and you start throwing beers because, anyway, They never liked her. That's what it is, it's a celebration of freedom mixed with a little anarchy. There's a white Dodge Charger behind me and I thought it was another car enthusiast, but there's a good chance it could also be a cop, so I'll press the button.

Genesis button that turns this into a Genesis where is it? Where's the button that turns it back into a subtle car that doesn't get me in trouble, jeez 70? It's not like everything falls apart when you really push it to the limit when you really drive this car ten tenths even on back roads like this, the damping is fantastic, the steering is good, it's very sharp, it corners and responds to your commands. , especially in sport mode, and if you can have the delicacy to extract those sensations. to extract what the car is capable of and feel that through your hands and your seat, then you could take the g7e and have as much fun with it as you would with the Mustang and then get the benefits of the Very nice Interior, heated seats , steering wheel, cooled seats and all the perks you get in a luxury car while having a good time, so I guess it all comes down to the person.

For me, I don't know. I know which one I want because I think at this point in my life I still want the car that's harder to drive but is more rewarding when you drive it fast, which would be the Mustang, but at the same time I can't deny it. I feel pretty comfortable and having a good time in this car, so after about a week of deliberation I decided that since I spend so much time at the track, I would take the Mustang with the spoiler. Thank you so much. It suits my driving style and James almost agrees with me, but since he lives downtown and perhaps isn't as used to Canadian winters as I am, he chose the comfort and safety of the G 70's all-wheel drive, so which in the end it all boils down to.

To you, both are epic cars in their own right and both will certainly make you smile. Oh my god, this is ridiculous.