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his car handles pretty nicely rear wheel drives a good thing you probably noticed Hyundai's been stretching their brand all kinds of directions the last few years and this is the one that goes the direction of Camaro and Mustang it's the Hyundai Genesis Coupe r-spec with the 3.8 v6 let's drive this 2013 with a new face and the new motor and check the tech now the Genesis Coupe isn't some pocket rocket it's a pretty good piece of machinery classic proportions short rear deck big long sloping arc of a roofline down over the back light and a relatively long hood but the front of that hood is where I have an issue this new face which is kind of like the Veloster is a little bit of a combination of Mazda goofy grin meets Renault Megane and I don't use either of those terms as a compliment and the first thing I'm struck by and happily so is that the cabin quality of the Genesis Coupe has gone way up and overall it's got a more grown-up look and feel which is nice I'm also spotting these as being new 3 analog gauges kind of a weird hodgepodge this one here is a fuel consumption thing that's very green next to it is torque that's very nut green and then there's the irrelevant oil temperature that's very irrelevant but they look good at a performance coupe like this remember this is the Korean Camaro the Korean Mustang so bear that in mind they go much more after those American Pony cars than they do after other Asian performance rides now once we get into cabin tech it's a big story of can't can't get this can't get that you do have bluetooth streaming for example you do have your basic aux iPod and USB down here not too elegantly done because you have to use one of these proprietary double headed connectors you put that in and there's a nice little bin right here to put your iPod touch your iPhone except it doesn't fit and because you cannot get navigation or a big color display in this car not in this trip we're in the r-spec bear that in mind you're going to use this pretty minimal display right here I'm streaming off my phone right now and as you can see I'm not getting any meta tags off this guy that may vary by phone but at least on this what RAZR MAXX running Android not getting anything like that here's my iPod I get some good meta information on that however even though I don't get that on a2dp bluetooth we've got am/fm radio there's no HD radio on this guy XM satellite radio on this vehicle as well that is standard on an r-spec there's an upgraded audio system again not on the r-spec you're stuck with their basic rig six speakers around the cabin 170 watts you also cannot get Hyundai's bluelink telematics system that does connected services through your phone that also comes on color LCD screen cars not this one and finally you only have one choice and this is a good omission of this very slick feeling 6-speed manual Hyundai's new 8-speed automatic new to this car is not available in the RS nice guts easy okay a genesis coupe in the r-spec can have two different motors a 2-liter turbo 4 it's been upgraded a lot since last year we'll talk about that another day or this one the 3.8 liter v6 also updated a lot since the last car mainly by getting direct injection 348 horsepower 295 foot-pounds of torque gets this guy up to 60 in not much over 5 seconds about 5.2 while delivering 18 27 mpg this guy stacks up better on paper than either a 6-cylinder Camaro or Mustang okay let's go for a run on our Korean Camaro it's about the same size you got a gutsy v6 - rear-wheel drive only there is no all-wheel-drive or front wheel drive variant on this car this car handles pretty nicely rear wheel drives a good thing the ride will get a little annoying if you live in places with crappy pavement although I can report the cabin doesn't drum very much that helps and nothing yet is squeaking or rattling I guess to take away I would give you is that everything feels kind of hard on this car so everything on this car feels like a handful they've dialed in the personality of it I think well to match what you expect from a car of this pseudo track trim level okay the press of 2013 Genesis Coupe r-spec now it's a key thing to remember if you want the 2 litre inline-four turbo the one we didn't review here that's going to be about 27 4 and 2254 this 3.8 direct injection v6 then in terms of options there aren't any you need to care about to go CNET style remember you can't get premium audio in this car you can't get navigation you can't get Blu link information and telematics you can't get the 8-speed automatic that's it you