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Genesis GV70 Project Overland takes the brand off-roading for the first time

Hyundai-owned Genesis is going off-roading — in Europe, at least. The carmaker's European division teamed up with a German off-road specialist named Delta 4x4 to develop a more rugged version of the GV70 that gains a lift kit and a roof rack with numerous accessories. Presented at the Essen motor show, the GV70 Project Overland remains a concept; plans to put it in production haven't been announced yet. Delta 4x4 started the project by lifting the crossover's suspension system and widening its track. It then added 18-inch Classic B-Rugged wheels wrapped by Continental ATR tires, and it tacked black plastic flares onto the wheel arches to compensate for the extra width. Up top, there's a custom-designed roof rack to store equipment such as storage boxes and recovery boards. Extra lighting adds a finishing touch to the build: The front bumper gets four individual LED pods, while the roof receives a wide, dual-row LED light bar from PIAA. Interior photos haven't been released, but we're guessing the Project Overland is standard GV70 fare in the cabin. We hope Delta 4x4 added rubber floor mats; we wouldn't want to step into a luxurious interior that we praised as "a true delight" with a pair of muddy hiking boots. Genesis didn't make any major mechanical modifications to the GV70. Across the pond, the crossover's base engine is a 2.2-liter turbodiesel four-cylinder rated at 201 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque. It spins the four wheels via an eight-speed automatic transmission. The other engine offered is a 2.5-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that develops 304 horses and 311 pound-feet of twist. All-wheel-drive and an eight-speed automatic transmission come standard as well. The 375-horsepower, 3.5-liter V6 offered on our shores isn't available in Europe. As for what's next, your guess is as good as ours. Genesis claims it has entered into a partnership with Delta 4x4 so this may not be the last off-road-focused build we'll see from the brand. Off-roaders remain sought-after, so we wouldn't be surprised to see one in showrooms. Featured Gallery Genesis GV70 Project Overland concept, official images Aftermarket Genesis Crossover Luxury Off-Road Vehicles

NACTOY announces top nine finalists for Car, Truck and Utility of the Year

Finalists for the 2024 North American Car, Truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year (NACTOY) Awards were announced at this year’s L.A. Auto Show. This whittles the field down to nine vehicles in total, with the winners scheduled to be announced on January 4, 2024. The finalists in their respective categories: Car category: Honda Accord, Hyundai Ioniq 6, Toyota Prius Truck category: Chevrolet Colorado, Chevrolet Silverado EV, Ford Super Duty Utility category: Genesis Electrified GV70, Kia EV9, Volvo EX30 These nine cars were chosen from a list of 25, which was previously narrowed down from a list of 52 eligible vehicles. Notable misses include the Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray, Toyota GR Corolla, GMC Canyon, Ford Ranger, Chevrolet Blazer EV, Chevrolet Equinox EV, Mazda CX-90 and Toyota Grand Highlander, among others. Jurors will now evaluate the final nine through the end of the year to determine the four winners. Autoblog Editor-in-Chief Greg Migliore is among the jurors. Green LA Auto Show Chevrolet Ford Genesis GM Honda Hyundai Kia Toyota Volvo Truck Crossover Hatchback SUV Electric Hybrid Luxury Off-Road Vehicles Performance Sedan

2025 Genesis GV80, new GV80 Coupe revealed for U.S., featuring 27-inch OLED display

Genesis revealed the U.S.-bound 2025 GV80 and GV80 Coupe in Los Angeles on Wednesday, pulling the wraps off its refreshed SUV and its new cut-down variant for the first time on U.S. soil. We've already seen the specs, but this is our first look at the U.S. market versions of both models. Spoiler alert: Nothing has really changed since September, and Genesis won't share final specs or pricing until next year. But hey, in the meantime, here are some photos.  The refreshed GV80 SUV's interior now boasts a combined 27-inch OLED infotainment display. A three-spoke steering wheel replaces the crossbar wheel in the current model. A "waterfall" console design descends from the touchscreen and HVAC controls onto redesigned console. A new wireless device charging pad leaves the phone more visible than in the current GV80 and makes room for larger cupholders. The coupe (below) gets some unique interior elements to go with its chopped down exterior, including colors and materials not offered on the SUV.  2024_genesis_gv80_coupe_001 View 27 Photos Genesis also confirmed that the U.S-bound SUV will be equipped with two powertrain options: the 2.5-liter turbo-four producing 300 horsepower and the 3.5-liter twin-turbo V6 pushing 375 horsepower. The Coupe will also offer two engine choices, but the standard will be the aforementioned V6 and the range will be topped by a variant of the same gas motor mated to an electrified supercharger. Hyundai says that combo will be good for 409 horsepower. The 2025 GV80 SUV and Coupe will go on sale in 2024; Hyundai says it will release final details of both models (along with pricing) as the official launch date approaches. Stay tuned.  Related video: This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings.

Hyundai sticks to EV rollout plans, sees solid growth this year

SEOUL — Hyundai Motor said on Thursday it would not delay plans to roll out new electric vehicles and was upbeat about prospects for continued growth this year — a contrast to recent steps by rivals to cut back on EV output. Electric vehicle sales are growing strongly but not as much as carmakers had forecast, with demand hit by high interest rates. "We do not plan to dramatically reduce EV production or our line-up due to likely near-term hurdles as we believe EV sales will grow longer term," Seo Gang Hyun, an executive vice president at the South Korean automaker, told an earnings briefing for analysts. The Hyundai Motor Group, which encompasses the Hyundai, Kia and Genesis brands, said in April it plans to launch 31 EVs by 2030. This includes the launch of the Ioniq 7 SUV next year. Seo said Hyundai's EV sales next year could be slightly lower than previously expected, but the automaker had the production flexibility to boost output of gasoline engine cars if demand shifted that way and he did not expect a significant impact on overall sales. When asked about the impact on Hyundai Motor of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union reaching a tentative labour deal with Ford, Seo said the company expects the deal will have an impact on wage increases at its U.S. factories, but such costs could be covered as the automaker has been putting effort into reducing costs, such as in logistics. Hyundai Motor, which is not a member of the UAW, operates an assembly plant in Alabama and is building a factory to produce EVs in Georgia. For the third quarter, Hyundai booked a net profit of 3.2 trillion won ($2.4 billion), more than double its year-earlier result and beating an LSEG SmartEstimate of 2.9 trillion won, with the automaker helped by a favourable exchange rate. Sales also increased, climbing 8.7% to 41 trillion won on solid demand for high-margin gasoline SUVs. Sales of EVs and hybrids also grew, up by a third to 169,000 units. This month has seen a flurry of downbeat EV announcements. Citing flattening demand for EVs, GM said it would delay production by a year of Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra electric pickup trucks at a plant in Michigan. Ford is temporarily cutting one of three shifts at the plant that builds its electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck. Tesla is also slowing plans for a Mexico factory, while GM and Honda announced on Wednesday that they were ending a $5 billion plan to develop lower-cost EVs together.

2024 Genesis G70 adds performance with a 300-hp four-cylinder

Though it doesn't look much different, the 2024 Genesis G70, or at least the base four-cylinder, has received a big improvement. The 2.0-liter turbo four-cylinder has been replaced with the more powerful 2.5-liter unit that was introduced in the 2022 Kia Stinger. And with a few other standard upgrades, this should be the best Genesis G70 (an already excellent sports sedan) yet. Output for the 2.5-liter engine is 300 horsepower and 311 pound-feet of torque, improvements of 48 horsepower and 51 pound-feet. Our experience with the Stinger counterpart revealed that the improvements are greater than just the peak numbers. It offers better power across the rev band, including when it's out of boost. And when the turbo has spooled up, the boost comes on more smoothly and quickly. On top of engine improvement, all four-cylinder G70s now get Brembo brakes as standard for improved stopping power. Combined with the lighter nose than the V6, plus better fuel economy, the four-cylinder G70 should become an extremely appealing option even beyond the lower price point. The rest of the changes for 2024 are more modest. The exterior is pretty much untouched save for a couple new exterior colors (including the blue on the pictured car). Inside, there are some new two-tone leather options along with USB-C charging ports, touch-sensitive climate controls and a frameless rearview mirror. The rear seats get standard side-impact airbags, too. And if you're interested, the G70 is available with the digital phone key that's becoming more available across Hyundai group models. Pricing has not been announced, nor has availability. The four-cylinder models will probably see a modest price increase as a result of the new engine and brakes. The V6 models will likely not change much as they haven't received as many changes. Genesis will announce when the new cars will hit lots along with pricing later this year. Related video: This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. 2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line revealed

Come for the tea, leave with a car. How Genesis is upping its luxury game

CHERRY HILL, N.J. — Genesis has the cars, the tech, the sales and pampering service. It has Genesis House, a stunning, wood-ceilinged sanctuary in Manhattan – near the High Line and Little Island Park – where visitors can enjoy everything from a cozy library and traditional Korean tea service, to an ambitious restaurant and cocktail bar helmed by chefs trained at the Michelin-starred Onjium in Seoul. (Genesis House itself is a Michelin Guide addition for 2023). If youÂ’re suitably impressed by the abalone, snow crab and poached egg dish on a tasting menu, perhaps youÂ’ll hit the showroom for a new car. Only one menu item has been missing for this fast-rising luxury brand: A network of stand-alone showrooms to give customers the full luxury experience, as Genesis guns hard for Mercedes, BMW and other establishment brands. On a media drive from New York to Philadelphia in the full trio of Genesis EVs – the GV60 hatchback/SUV, Electrified G80 sedan and Alabama-built Electrified GV70 SUV – we roll past a prime example of the brandÂ’s brick-and-mortar handicap. The Genesis of Cherry Hill store, in the New Jersey suburbs just over the Delaware River from Philly, might have managed to sell 1,010 Genesis cars last year, but it did so side-by-side with a Hyundai store that sold 1,500 cars of its own. ItÂ’s the auto equivalent of a combination Pizza Hut and RuthÂ’s Chris, and itÂ’s unfortunately been the norm. Literally underlining the point, the Genesis name and winged logo sits below HyundaiÂ’s, squashed together on an outdoor showroom sign. Genesis of Cherry Hill in New Jersey View 7 Photos Just down the road is the swankier luxury model: The new standalone Genesis of Cherry Hill, where owner Peter Lanzavecchia is joined by family, colleagues and longtime charity partners – including broadcaster and former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Ron “Jaws” Jaworski – for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The Cherry Hill operation marks the ninth stand-alone Genesis store in America, for a luxury brand that has now sold more than 1 million cars around the world since it became a separate marque in 2015. After a slow start in America, with a two-sedan lineup in a nation besotted with SUVs, Genesis is gaining serious momentum with acclaimed models like its top-selling GV70. September saw Genesis mark a pair of U.S. sales records, with 6,453 sales for its best-ever month, and a quarterly record of 19,427 sales.

2024 Genesis GV60 introduces Standard RWD trim with a lower price

Last month, some early intel and a wonky web page leaked tentative specs for the 2024 Genesis GV60. The changes were the usual, a little good, a little less good; one GV60 trim benefited from smaller wheels to earn a longer range estimate, both GV60 trims got slightly higher prices. After our post ran, Genesis got in touch to let us know that "[The] changes detailed in this story present an incomplete picture of the 2024 GV60, and more details on that model will be released soon." The details are here, the rest of the picture being a new entry-level rear-wheel-drive trim that extends range and lowers the price. The new, third trim is the GV60 Standard RWD. Battery capacity has been shaved to 77 kWh instead of the 77.4-kWh pack in the Advanced and Performance all-wheel-drive trims above. Motor count gets halved to one, a single unit on the rear axle that makes 255 horsepower. And standard wheel size has been taken down an inch compared to the Advanced AWD, to 19 inches. Estimated range for the rear-driver stands at 294 miles, which is 46 miles more than the GV60 Advanced AWD on 20-inch wheels. Note, though, that part of the early intel from September was that the Advanced trim would offer a 19-inch wheel as an option, extending range from 248 miles to 264 miles. The EPA's fuel economy site shows a 19-inch wheel option for the GV60 Advanced AWD, but the option isn't available on the Genesis consumer website configurator at the time of writing. As for price, the new base model starts at $52,000. Add a destination charge that's gone up $70, from $1,125 to $1,195, and that's $53,195 before options — roughly $8,600 less than the next-most-expensive model, the Advanced. The Standard RWD still comes with plenty of shiny features such as the dual 12.3-inch screens for the gauge cluster and infotainment, four-way power front seats with heating, adjustable ambient lighting, acoustic laminated front windows, a Wi-Fi hotspot, fingerprint authentication, a heat pump and battery heater, and a bundle of convenience and safety features. It goes without frills like Surround View Monitor, Remote Smart Parking Assist, dual-zone climate control, and leather seating. The GV60 is assembled in Korea and not eligible for a federal EV tax credit. All GV60s get more standard equipment in 2024. In the safety column, more airbags take the airbag total to 10, there's a seatbelt pretensioner, a load limiter, and a rear seatbelt reminder.

Hyundai, Kia electric vehicles to use Tesla's NACS charging ports starting next year

Hyundai and Kia say that they're adopting North American Charging Standard ports for their electric vehicles in the U.S. and Canada, which will give the vehicles access to thousands of Tesla Superchargers across the two countries and Mexico. Tesla’s Superchargers are coveted by other automakers because Tesla has more direct current fast-charging plugs in the U.S. than any other network, and its stations are in prime locations along freeway travel corridors. Hyundai Motor North America said Thursday that new Hyundai electric vehicles in the U.S. will come with the NACS port starting in 2024's fourth quarter. It will begin in Canada in the first half of 2025. Hyundai's luxury brand, Genesis, will also start using the NACS ports. Kia said it plans to build the NACS port into new electric vehicles sold in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, also in the fourth quarter of next year. “Having this kind of sprawling access to chargers will no doubt boost customer satisfaction, elevate the EV ownership experience, and enable drivers to reach more destinations across the continent on electricity,” Seungkyu (Sean) Yoon, president & CEO, Kia North America and Kia America, said in a statement. Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles with NACS ports will be able to access more than 12,000 Tesla Superchargers throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico. This will double the size of the DC fast charging network available to Hyundai electric vehicle customers. The Tesla network will be able to support the charging speeds on HyundaiÂ’s advanced Electric-Global Modular Platform vehicles, including IONIQ 5 and IONIQ 6 and the upcoming IONIQ 7. Tesla's electric vehicle plug has steadily moved closer to becoming the industry standard. In June SAE International, formerly the Society of Automotive Engineers, said that it would set performance standards for TeslaÂ’s electric vehicle charging cords. The move by the key U.S. automotive industry organization came just weeks after Ford, General Motors and Rivian said they would join TeslaÂ’s large Supercharger network and adopt its NACS connector in new versions of their electric vehicles. Volvo Cars has also signed a deal with Tesla to join its charging network.

2024 Genesis GV80 gets even more luxurious, and GV80 Coupe joins the lineup

Genesis just unveiled its refreshed GV80 SUV (pictured above) in South Korea, and along with it, the production version of the GV80 Coupe that we first saw as a concept in April of this year. Starting with the traditional version, the GV80 wears a redrawn Crest grille that's narrower and wider, ringed by a new line of chrome trim. Below that, the central intake's been inverted, so instead of forming an elongated "U," it forms an elongated "A" underlined by a shiny faux skid plate. The vents at the corners have been opened up and filled with mesh instead of being mostly covered with a body-colored panel as on the current model. Two new wheel designs come in 20- and 22-inch diameters. Out back, the exhaust tips have disappeared, the undisturbed lower bumper said to "elevate the GV80’s sophistication" — a perception the glossy and matte Storr Green exterior colors might also contribute to. Inside, the formerly separate digital instrument cluster and infotainment touchscreen have been combined into a single 27-inch OLED display. Ahead of it, a three-spoke steering wheel centered around a tidy, stitched-leather hub replaces the single-bar wheel we have now. To the right, a more unified console design with a waterfall-like trim piece descends from the multimedia buttons and HVAC panel — with knobs for the audio volume and the climate control temperature! — onto a central tunnel boasting a redesigned wireless charging pad. The new pad arrangement leaves the phone more visible than in the current GV80 and makes room for larger cupholders. Second-row passengers can take in the sights on the rear windows or on the rear entertainment screens, each screen a 14.6-inch unit suspended from the front seatbacks. Or they can admire the expanded range of interior color treatments that include the hues Bordeaux Brown, Earth Brown, and Glacier White.  2024_genesis_gv80_coupe_001 View 27 Photos   Over on the coupe, you'd be hard pressed to tell it from the boxy GV80 from the front. Look closely, though, and you'll see a group of four vents under the crest grille, and the chrome bars in the lower side intakes sit a bit higher up on the coupe than on the traditional SUV. The profile view is unmistakable and doesn't stray far from the concept; the scalloped lower doors and black garnish around the hem that we saw on the New York show car are gone, but the change doesn't rob the coupe of any drama.

Genesis, Kia, Lexus EVs earn spots on the IIHS Top Safety Picks+ list

A trio of 2023 electric vehicles — the Hyundai Ioniq 6, Lexus RZ, and Genesis Electrified GV70 — have just earned the Top Safety Pick+ rating by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The prestigious award from the IIHS requires that the cars and SUVs achieve top scores in a number of crash tests and that they have an “Advanced” or “Superior” front crash avoidance system that activates to help inattentive drivers prevent vehicle or pedestrian crashes. Previous selections for the award among EVs have included the Rivian R1T/R1S, Kia EV6, Hyundai IONIQ 5, and Tesla Models 3/Y. To earn the “+” designation, the agency stipulates that headlights rated “Acceptable or Good” must be standard across all trims, and that a front crash prevention system that earns Advanced or Superior ratings in both the daytime and nighttime vehicle-to-pedestrian evaluations be available. The GV70 earned “Advanced” ratings in both the daytime and nighttime vehicle-to-pedestrian front crash prevention evaluations. The Ioniq 6 and the Lexus RZ earned “Superior” ratings in these two tests. “To be environmentally friendly, our vehicles and our cities also need to be pedestrian-friendly,” said IIHS President David Harkey. “All three of these vehicles have standard front crash prevention systems designed to protect pedestrians both during the day and at night, when most fatal pedestrian crashes happen.” Overall in its latest list, the IIHS named 51 cars in the “Top Safety Pick+” grouping, and 25 in the secondary Top Safety Pick tier. ThatÂ’s down from 101 total award-winning models last year, likely because the organization has implemented its tough new side-impact test and is also testing for night-time pedestrian detection for collision warning and prevention systems. The IIHS is one of two major automotive safety rating organizations, along with the federal government's National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. IIHS is a private organization funded by insurance companies. By the Numbers Genesis Kia Lexus Green Automakers Insurance Safety Electric