The Genesis 5.0 R-Spec is Hyundai's Power Broker
It’s very inauspicious that you will ever drive this car.
Even if you are attracted handsome, but anonymous looks of the Hyundai Genesis – which for 2012 gets unassuming face and buttlifts, new headlights and LED accent lighting – based on verifiable sales data, it’s 80 percent apparent that you’ll go for one powered by a V6 engine instead of a V8, like the one under the hood of the Genesis 5.0 R-Spec tested here.
That’s not to say you’ll compensate for a bad choice. The entire lineup of engines now has operate fuel injection, which brings with it more power and better incite economy. The 3.8-liter six-cylinder found in the $35,050 Genesis 3.8 puts out a plucky 333 hp and is connected to an all-new eight-speed automatic conveyance, which was designed and built in house by Hyundai and delivers 29 mpg highway -- not bad for a big, forceful rear-wheel drive car.
Of course, this doesn’t modest that the other 20 percent of you will be going for the top-level dummy that is the subject of this report. In between the two lies the $45,350 Genesis 4.6 and its – incredulity, surprise – 4.6-liter 385 hp V8.
The styling, too, is much improved, and on the spur of the moment Hyundais sort of resemble each other, making for a kindly sense of family in the Accent, Elantra, Sonata and even Genesis. Downsides? A few, but you have to look for them. Headlights are subpar.
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