2021 Genesis G90 AWD 5.0 Ultimate POV Test Drive & Review

so here we have a

2021

genesis

g90 all wheel

drive

this one comes in the

ultimate

trim level in that beautiful big black over beige interior with brown perforated leather of course the powertrain consists of a 5 liter naturally aspirated v8 engine and that is made for an 8 speed automatic transmission that gives you 420 horsepower so when we get to the front here very beautiful LED headlights with grille along with LED daytime running lights and this g90 has wheels of 19-inch aluminum, we have passive keyless entry on all four. doors and there are the controls for your memory seats power windows power mirrors power door locks and you also have power folding mirrors you can also have the car or you can open and close them yourself and you can see the blind spot monitors on those that we have I have a nice 17 speaker Lexicon sound system, safety features here, power tilt/telescoping steering wheel and I believe it's a 22 way power

drive

r's seat with power lumbar support.

It's really cool to see this in the backseat here, so really, really cool. legroom here and look at this we have two power rear seats back here and I mean this is amazing. I'm six foot three, probably about two inches of headroom and then I can adjust the seat fore and aft as well as the headrest and the back of the seat is so impressive and there's a view of the front seat from the back here now look at this here we have our rear air conditioning controls we have our rear entertainment controls you have three stage cooled and heated seats for the rear and then even have your rear electric blinds there and then to turn on the screens press that button there same for each side and then you can toggle all the mode you want I mean this is just amazing having the navigation screen up change those settings there just really cool and then if you have certain media set you can even go through all of that , if you have a movie set up or something like that, fm am xm down here, you have your vents here that you can open and close, then you have two. 12 volt cigarette lighters right there, you can even fold this seat down, then you have a USB port and then you can go straight to the rear trunk space, which we're going to check out now I almost forgot to mention that we have lines that you can control either side from one end or the other, then your memory seat controls there too, there's the rear end with your LED taillights, dual exhaust, then we can open the truck from the front, with the key fob or by pressing that button, of course, cool. space in the trunk and then next to the passenger, that's our 14-way power passenger seat with power lumbar support and I'm very surprised with all the luxury features that Genesis put in this, I mean, these are some of these features that I don't even know.

I think Mercedes has, let's go ahead and take it and look at what's under the hood and there's that five-liter V8. Now let's look at what's happening from the driver's seat and it's crazy how soundproofing is in here, just for starters. It was so loud outside because we're right off the interstate and as soon as I close the door it's just immaculate how quiet it is in here, but here we have the leather-wrapped two-stage heated steering wheel, it feels fantastic and then we move on to our infotainment system. system here here is our navigation screen we get am fm xm radio nature sounds as well as bluetooth audio apple carplay and android auto here is our backup camera there is our front camera and then on the right side you can see that 360 view ​​and I like how you can tap the screen or use the knob, which we'll get to in a second, but there's a lot to do, scroll around so you can alter the driver assistance, your driving modes, how you want all of that to work, the front screen. gauge cluster so many options but down here you have the controls for your dual zone automatic climate for the front and of course all your usual buttons here so adjust the volume here we have our shifter so we have p To park, press up to reverse down. to drive you can tap up for neutral and then tap up for reverse from there and press p for park and we can pull up our camera by pressing this button here parking sensors auto brake hold then we have our driving modes here which I have for those comfort sport eco and custom and then here is our knob to control the radio if you don't want to use a screen you can do all that here three stage heated and cooled seats for the front as well as the rear and you can also control the rear window blind from up here and then we have a USB port and then a very good sized wireless phone charger there and then we can store it and here we have the space for the center console cubby and a removable tray.

Plus there's our one touch power moonroof just take a look at this suede headliner that feels great and looks great and there's a view of our back seat from up here and here's our glove box with the manuals of the owner. They did a very good job with this. auto to the left side of the steering wheel we have our volume controls radio station controls no tracking we can cycle through our audio modes so bluetooth fm xmam controls here and then here we have our adaptive cruise controls so we can adjust the gap and then these two here for our gauge cluster and then up here a very nice screen with a lot of information.

I like how they fit everything in there so you can look at your navigation while also looking at how fast you are. cruise control and all that so you don't have to switch between screens like in most other vehicles there's our start button last but not least here's our key fob but next time we'll go ahead and we will take this

genesis

g90 on all wheels. drive last on the highway for a quick

test

drive in 900 feet turn right onto Fortress Boulevard turn right onto Fortress Boulevard so there's a quick demo of the navigation system so now I have it in mode comfort and it's very comfortable, which I don't do.

I don't know if that will change with the drive modes but it's a really nice feeling and of course the drive mode itself is very refined, the easy shifts are a luxurious feeling but we'll put it in sport mode and see how it shifts so you can I really don't have to rev very hard to accelerate because it's a 5 liter v8 and even in sport mode the revs aren't very high and the shifts are incredibly quick and I also really like the sound, let's set this up. cruise, so that's the adaptive cruise along with the lane keeping assist, really nice, very refined, and then you can even see on the head-up display how it shows you the gap, it shows you that you actually have the line set, you can activate it. and off and then the green steering wheel just tells you that it can see the lines so impressive that I'll dial it back into eco mode and when I press the eco mode button the bolsters loosen around my torso, that's amazing. so let's take a look at this automatic brake that's it so when I let my foot off the brake the car was still stationary this eco mode is probably going to be good for about eighty percent of at least my driving because it still has a lot of power coming out of the corners. eco mode as you can see, but I will say the overall driving experience of this car is fantastic, the seats are fantastic, the steering wheel is fantastic, the steering feel is fantastic, everything about this car screams German luxury, honestly, even if you have a korean. car made here is really cool, it really is and this ride is fantastic, I think what will be interesting is that as all these brands start to go electric, what that will mean for the Genesis brand because you see the hybrids. in hyundai and kia and then you have a couple of electric cars out of Korea that also have pretty decent range and I think once you can put that into something like this especially when you have the mercedes eqs that are coming out very soon which is its all electric s class, it will be nice to have some competition and I think Genesis could definitely do that and probably will in the next at least 5 to 10 years at most, but right now even with this internal combustion engine.

You're still getting, I think, 17 city, 25 highway with a 5-liter V8, so gas mileage is definitely not low and in fact I'd say it's pretty good for the class, but this will take me at the end of my

review

of the

2021

genesis g90 with

ultimate

all-wheel drive