2021 Genesis G80 in Depth Look - Better Than a BMW 5 Series?

I'm Jacob, I'm Yuri and we're going on a virtual trip 20 21

genesis

g 80 so obviously we're at home like the rest of the world, we can't drive it but we'll do our best. To tell you in

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what this car is all about, so let's start with the horsepower and torque, there are three engine options starting with 300 horsepower and 311 pound-feet of torque with a turbocharged two-and-a-half-liter four-cylinder and then we have I got 375 horsepower and 391 pound-feet of torque from a three-and-a-half-liter twin-turbo V6 and there's also a 2.2-liter turbodiesel option that I doubt will come to North America as well. which, realistically, the only thing we really care about is the 3.5-liter twin. -turbo option.

I'd like to see what the base models like too, but it's 11 less horsepower than the previous 3.8-liter naturally aspirated v6, but the twin-turbo v6 is 10 more horsepower than the 3.3-liter twin-turbo v6 and there are still there is no 5 liter v8 no there is no v8 that is only for the G 90 and it is dual clutch but no it is still an 8 speed Auto I guess it's okay because it probably won't be that fast anyway I mean yeah it's only got 10 horsepower so I think it'll be fine yeah I mean the G 90 felt slow so I guess this will feel slow too but let's start with the

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s yeah so we should probably Start with the front because we have an even bigger crest grille.

Now yes, it's more of the new style like the G 90, but what I really noticed are the different headlights, like the ones on the GV 80. Yeah, so this is Genesis' new brand identity with the quad lights. Yes, it

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s great, but they said everything. The front end, headlights and grill come from the crest with the center part on the wings, but when they did the transformation part like they didn't use the wings, they just faded into those lines in the background, you know, marketing, marketing and What's really cool is that we have side markers on the fender that are also in exactly the same place with exactly the same light, so when you have an amber light on, everything matches along the side, okay, so that's the best way to implement the side marker because it's usually an afterthought because North America generally has different regulations than the rest of the world so it's a way to mix it up for everyone and I think it looks awesome and then it also lines up with the taillights from the side view but back to the front do you like the grille?

Do you like that there is still that little radar in the front? I mean, depending on the angle you look at it, you can see reflections of the sun. It's starting to bother me a little. a little less, yes, I like it a lot, there is a place for the plate underneath which will look very ugly, I think it is

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not to use plates, but overall I really like the front part, I think they are moving in a really real way good. steering and then in the side view it looks muscular, it looks rear wheel drive based because it's real wheel drive based, it's kind of like what the Sonata was trying to push forward with its front wheel drive system, yeah so it should probably do it Quickly mention that you can get this with all wheel drive and rear wheel drive, it just depends where you are in the world.

I doubt Candida will get the rear drive one because we didn't get the old one but on the Dice you'll probably get both and it looks quick back like it's not a hatch but it looks more raked than the old one, yeah it definitely looks more sporty, now I have to look around to make sure it was. No, but it definitely still has a trunk, yes, and it has a built-in ducktail spoiler that I think looks very stylish, like throwing a spoiler on a luxury car and if we look at the wheels, the ones we're looking at.

Featured in most of the footage are the 20-inch five-spoke wheels. I think they look quite elegant. You can never go wrong with a 5 spoke. They have some G-matrix right in the middle, but there are three other options. nineteen inches yes, I don't really like the five spoke as much as I like the others just because the five spoke doesn't look as stylish, it looks more sporty and I don't really find this car that sporty, yes, my preference is definitely, the ones from full mesh, like the ones we saw on the g 90 and according to the korean configurator, they come standard with continental tires on the 19 inch wheels and I guess we should probably point out that we'll be using footage from the configurators and pushing. pitches to make videos like this while we can't go out and film car reviews, yeah, and this will give us the opportunity to drive pretty much a lot of cars that we might not even get the chance to drive, yeah, like we do.

I can talk about things like the Jesco, will we ever be able to drive it? Probably not, and the Jumeirah. I would love to drive one of those. Will I drive one? Probably not, so getting back to the look of the car, is there anything else on the side? There is a chrome piece on the bottom that goes from the bottom to the back. I mean, it's not as crazy as BMW's hockey stick, but it looks pretty decent. I think it presses the entire back to make it look smaller. That whole airplane wing that Lincoln likes and all his stuff, you know what I mean, you're right, it's definitely a visual trick to make the back end look fancier, okay, and then I guess we can move on to the back, yeah, let's get started. with these taillights we have quad taillights and they obviously look very good, they match the front and the side very well.

It's really cool how those two lines wrap around the car perfectly and we have a big Genesis logo. the trunk too, yeah I like that and I also like that they replaced every track with an all-wheel drive logo which actually looks a lot cooler because we complain about it in every Genesis review, the fun part about doing it though The whole thing is that some things are market specific so we don't know if they will come with an H track badge in North America, yes, and the best part is that it doesn't matter because that's all we have to work with. with we could comment on the craziest things now yes, this is really a lot of fun, I'm having fun, how about the exhaust tips?

Okay, this is where the crest grill appears once again, so we have the outline of the crest grill on the exhaust. I think it looks pretty cool. I don't see any other way to do it, if they just used real exhaust sticking out of the back it would look a bit strange for a luxury car, but if you look at all the press images. and see how in the 3D page generator, you can see the exhaust on the fake exhaust tip and since it's a v6 I don't think it sounds that good anyway, like the previous one didn't sound very good, there's no v8, no and then This one has built-in audio, which sucks.

I don't know if you can turn it off. I guess you can, but I think recently on a Kia Forte we couldn't turn it off, so I'm not too sure what they are. We're doing more, yeah, it says they had to improve the engine sound with active sound design and then before we get to the interior, because I'm so excited to talk about that, we should probably talk about all the different colors that you can get . The exterior of this car is yes, obviously there are about 50 shades of gray because it is a luxury car, but there is also a very nice red, a very nice blue and according to the Korean website there are also matte colors which I don't know . to North America.

I like how you managed to link your favorite book to that statement - it's a book that I only saw the movie and literally never saw, so I want to dig a little deeper into these colors in the page builder. We pretty much only have one really bright color and that's the blue color, yeah I'm a little surprised that it's like a g70 color but I understand because it's not a car that really needs to be bright but I like how we went like that. dark green we have a nice dark red like a dark blue eggplant there are many very good and elegant subtle colors that are still exciting yes, especially in Sedona Brown.

I really like the Sahara beige, it looks similar to the Corolla beige but I think it has more class. I think it's nice jokes, it's almost like a gold color, but brought to the future, I like it too and we also have a lot of cool colors for the interior, so we should talk about that, so we have three sets of designs of interiors. We have an exclusive design, a standard design and then an exclusive design too, and you don't really get any of the fun colors and materials until you get past the first one, so before we talk about what the interior actually looks like, let's talk about how quiet it is. suppose.

So they actually did a lot of things with the glass, so we have acoustic glass for the windshield, the doors,

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door sealing and then we also have new engine compartment sound insulation and sound reducing wheels . Well, I hope it's quiet anyway, so I'll be excited to see how quiet it is in real life. Well, let's move inside. What is your favorite color? My favorite would be charcoal gray with two shades of vanilla beige, so that's white and grey. Do you know how much I like it? I love my bright interiors, so it turns out we both like the same color, but no crazy colors like red or crazy blue, like nothing bright, there's nothing there, making sure you get fun colors that are as muted as possible in So many different options, but how about the accompanying wood trim patterns?

Let me guess you like the eucalyptus interior wood too. I'm actually between the ash gradient and the metallic ash gradient. How about the piano black interior inserts? It seems we don't have that. In fact, if we opt for the first standard configuration, glossy black is the only option we get right. Turns out I wouldn't buy a base model of this car because I hate gloss black and then if you go for the second design. package, you can only get the G matrix pattern, so you have to be on the top to get wood, so now let's talk about what the inside actually looks like.

Let's start with the driver's seat. The driver's seat has a crazy feature called the Go Motion seat with air. the cells that way change depending on the driving mode, that's not so crazy. I feel like it's just an excuse to not have massage seats. I mean, you're right, so at least we know we probably won't have a real massage in this car, but again, based on these preliminary specs, it doesn't look like it and then the seat pattern has a lot of seams and a lot going on, and I remember which was not there in the first G 90 we drove. super comfortable in the seats as if it felt a little strange.

I feel like there might be too much going on to be a really comfortable seat, but at least you won't be because apparently it's supposed to reduce your fatigue and stuff like that and it's We'll have all the cool stuff where you'll have perfect posture like the G90 hat and then also We will have heated and cooled front and rear seats which is really nice and the rear seats move back and forth and there should be enough room for someone. who is six and a half feet, apparently there should be because they actually increase the headroom and legroom and in the back you can also have two screens so you can watch whatever you want in the back and it's independent of the person on the other side. but what I noticed is that in the press images they show a USB stick in there every time, so I think you need to bring preloaded stuff to watch on a USB stick and then there are only three thousand and a half headphone jacks on each side, like this I guess if I have my iPhone headphones that won't work, if you have your Android USB C headphones that won't work and if you have airpods that won't work, yes, but they might have wireless.

Option that we do not see in the specifications, as I always say, it is better to have the phone on the back, but at least those screens are apparently touch, so it will be better than controlling them with a knob. Okay, now let's move on. At the front we have a very attractive steering wheel that I love, it is a power book, you know I don't like spoked wheels so I think it looks good. I would prefer three spokes. I think it looks so f1. the way it has the outline from afar, like it's a dark steering wheel, the way it highlights the edge, it looks so cool and then the whole placement of our buttons around it is a little different than the previous ones, but still we have the normal sliders for your audio and all that so it should be very easy to use and if you look at the overall layout of the infotainment and all the physical buttons and stuff, they minimized all the physical buttons because apparently they wanted to look better and work better better.

I'm not convinced of that until I drive it because I don't trust anyone when they charge to change a good infotainment system, but what's cool is the way they mold it into the emergency button. Have you seen that yes, that's great, but let's talk about it? This14.5 inch widescreen infotainment is now newer than the old Hyundai, so it looks good, it's like a reskin, it looks different. I used it briefly at the Toronto Auto Show on the GV 80. I tried using that new scroll knob they have that will be Honestly, I was very confused, yes that scroll knob also has handwriting recognition, but the best part is that it's still a touch screen, so I hope it's close enough that you can reach it normally.

No one in the history of driving a car properly has ever used a writing part like anything, oh yeah, you're absolutely right. I've never used that in my life and I looked at the three hundred and four hundred cars and then what they did to remove them, like the jog feature where you could move it forward, backward, left. And now it's like turning on the outside and then the buttons up down, left, right, it was very confusing to use, it makes me want to be in a BMW even more now because even a Mercedes moved away from that stuff.

Yes, we're really going to have to try. This will last a week when it's available, but for now Yuri's preliminary testing for about five minutes at the Motor Show says it will be a little harder to use than before and they also got rid of the volume knob and tuning knob whatever you want. We have a volume and finger tuning slider right after where the shift knob is, which is kind of like Mercedes did and then we also have a rotary shift knob, so if you want to shift from Park Neutral Drive, We also have a rotary knob that's next to the other rotary knob, so maybe that's a little confusing.

Don't know. I guess maybe for someone like me who likes the lifter it might confuse me more, but even Land Rover used to do it. I got it and then they went back to normal because I guess people got confused. Getting back to the infotainment and physical buttons, we still have a bunch of buttons on top, including a star for a shortcut button that will take you to your applique play or Android auto, which come standard on this one, so that's it. well, but another thing that this also has only in South Korea is Genesis car pay, not car play, yes, so you can use your car's infotainment to prepay for gas which you don't actually have to take out your credit card. credit and go to the pump, which I guess is a nice thing to do now and you don't want to touch anything, so this infotainment also has Adrena Avigail, but you'll probably never do it. use your onboard navigation anyway because Apple Carplay is always better yes but it's a feature they had to include because Mercedes has it so it's what you can say you have and then in the infotainment you will also have full 360 cameras that you can also make it appear on your phone if you plug it into your car, yeah apparently now if you park your car you can access it remotely on your phone so you can see your cameras when it's parked which is cool.

Cool yeah, but I'm curious to see if it has a feature similar to century mode where if someone hits it it will record that section or if you can record the dash cam like Tesla does. I'm going to spoil it right now. I'll show you the footage of the DV 80 doing all these things with your phone accessing the dash cam changing the settings it's amazing and I guess with all the infotainment stuff it's time to move on to the gauge cluster so I have a cluster of twelve point three inch digital indicators that is 2D and 3D and is configurable, yes, and you don't need 3D glasses to see it.

It has AI tracking that I assume will move the 3D based on where your eyes are and One thing I noticed is that the tachometer is now upside down like an Aston Martin, yeah, which totally sucks because that's what BMW did and they screwed it up and I think which we saw in a couple of new Hyundais in their digital dashboard that also go in the opposite direction. which totally sucks. I think I'm okay with that if it's in a round group, if BMWs like to have a weird shape, so I'm just going to say I'm okay with that right now, yeah, kind of not.

I don't like it at all, but we have some great graphics, everything looks updated, it doesn't look like the same Hyundai Kia Genesis we've had for five years and we have a cool head-up display with lots of new features. Plus, it looks like they really updated a ton. Is there anything else you would like to talk about with the interior? The boot is electric so it opens and closes automatically, which is great, but the rear seats do. It doesn't fold, but it has a step and there's also an air purification system inside which I guess comes in handy if you live in a city with a lot of smog and all that.

Yes, Mercedes and BMW have been doing that for a while. so it makes sense why they have it here too and they have another feature where you can connect your car to your smart home so I think from the pictures it looks like you can tell your Amazon to preheat your car to a certain temperature yeah and It also seems to work the other way around, so you can tell your car to preheat your house before you get home, so that's something new and interesting they added. I wonder if they'll let you do it. Hello, Alexa Auto Park my.

Genesis g80 because it has automatic parking and many other things, yes it has remote smart parking just like we have tested in the Elantra, except here it is much better because you can get in the car and park perpendicular or parallel without having to be in the car directly From the keychain yes, in the images they said that it is a more elegant way to park the car. I never thought I'd need a fancier way to park it, but now I have it, do you think they'll do it? Call it POC mop, yeah, yeah, they'll have the whole gang, they'll have John Krasinski and everyone back to do another commercial for the next Super Bowl with Genesis, why wouldn't they have made fun?

Because the drill is moving to Tampa. Bay will follow Tom Brady, so let's talk about the world's first smart cruise control system with machine learning, so this will take into account your driving habits and adjust the smart cruise control system to work based on how drive with the accelerator. Car cruise control takes an algorithm of how you drive not in cruise control and makes it how you drive in cruise control. Listen man, all I can tell you is, from the press release, it emulates your driving habits, that's it, I don't know what. it actually means calm me down, but I can also tell you that this also has highway driving assist.

We've already tested version one, which is already really very good, so now apparently this version will also change lanes for you, ok, I'm a little worried because "Every time someone improves something that is already the best, they usually make it worse." , but I'm really excited to test it in rush hour traffic, so what other tech stuff does this car have that we haven't seen yet, so obviously we can?" I don't drive it, but I can tell you it has a crazy new suspension system, just like its German rivals, so what it does is it scans the road, it will preview the road like Mercedes, BMW and Audi, and it actually Dampen the suspension before you hit a bump and you'll know exactly what to do to make the ride even smoother.

Yes, we tried it with the GLA. It seemed to work pretty well. Anything else with the car is supposed to have better handling and stability. higher speeds because we now have 250 pounds less weight to carry thanks to the aluminum and how about the visor test? We don't know, that's all we have. I don't know, we should put out a call on Instagram to see if people can go try one if they're in the place where one is already, yeah, because before all this was happening around the world, people had already driven some of them. these, so I guess with all that out of the way, let's get to the price.

Obviously it's too early to say that there is no launch price, but we can make an estimate based on previous G80 prices, so the current 20 20 G 80 starts at fifty-eight thousand dollars in Canada, which is 42 thousand five hundred and fifty in the United States and I'm guessing it'll be about sixty-one thousand Canadians, which is about 45,000 Americans, it's probably almost as good an idea to get this instead of a G 90, yeah. I mean, I actually agree considering it looks the same now. and you can even get practically the same wheels. I think it's a little hard to argue between the G 80 and the G 90.

Yeah, I don't think you need that extra space in the back seat if everything looks as cool as the G 90. and you also have even more attack, it's probably the right choice yes i mean you have the rear entertainment system you have softly closed doors it doesn't look real but you don't have that on the current g90 either so i'm not really missing a lot yeah i guess it's time Genesis make an even crazier g90 after making the GV 80 and g 80, so let us know what you think about the upcoming Genesis G 80 of

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