Every new sports car receives a similar greeting: a welcome committee of the established players, comfortable with their role in the game, dismiss you as an upstart, a wannabe, a poser. It happened to the Z and the NSX, and even back in the day, to Porsche. And it’ll happen, we figure, to the new Hyundai Genesis Coupe. But here’s the thing about performance cars–they’re all measured by the same yardstick: by the stopwatch and the skid pad, by power-to-weight ratios and gear ratios and coefficients of drag. And if that’s the criteria enthusiasts use to judge our new Genesis Coupe, we like our chances. A lot.

We designed the new Genesis Coupe around a front-engine, rear-drive architecture to help it achieve the dynamics of acceleration and handling expected of a no-excuses sports car. Its all-aluminum engine–pick one: 306-hp 3.8L V6 or 210-hp 2.0L Turbo–is mounted longitudinally with its weight centered behind the front axle. The result is a combination of straight-line punch, top-end speed and handling precision that establishes the Genesis Coupe not merely as a student of the game, but as a sports coupe capable of changing the very nature of the game.

Category : Automotive, Hyundai
Source : http://www.steeleauto.ca
Language : English
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Date : December 14th, 2009

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