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well here's a new edition of the car they once said Hyundai couldn't make fly I guess if it deserves a second generation they proved them wrong here's the new Genesis overall you're seeing a fresher modern design to my eye especially in the cabin things are just kind of less gaudy and ornate on that face do I see a touch of 2014 Mercedes s-class may as well copy the best overall the car is the same length nose to tail but they've pushed the axial line of the wheels the wheelbase about three inches further apart shorter overhangs should make for a little better space inside as well there's a revised head unit on that touchscreen that I can't wait to get my hands on but can't really analyze that here at the show in terms of engines still a 3.8 v6 and a 5 liter v8 the v8 carries over but the v6 is interesting they've actually reduced the horsepower substantially but increase the torque a refreshing admission that that some people actually drive cars not revving them to 7000 rpm between the gears but lumping along at 2 or 3,000 rpm all the time like many cars at the show here they're making extensive use of aluminum and high-strength steel in this case not to save weight but to have the same weight that they had before but much greater stiffness there's a big one for those even live in the snow this car can now be had with all-wheel drive not just the rear wheels driven that's gonna open up to a potentially much larger market all kinds of technology gizmos have been refreshed on this primarily in the driver assistance area included automatic braking adaptive cruise head-up display lane departure and all those things that you have to have in this class here's an interesting one though this is a great car to get a muffler leak in it's got a co2 detector that will detect levels of that gas in the cabin if they get too high it blows in more fresh air from outside I have no idea why they came up with that this car should be around 38 K or so based on the v6 version so keeping it below that $40,000 psychological mark we'll see in the spring you