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Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0 Turbo

Hyundai Genesis Coupe looks great, but it was visible in the photos. The purpose of the visit to Las Vegas, in this city-Mirage in the midst of the desert, was not to look at the new car. I had to understand, is not another marketing mirage before us?
This car from the moment of the first leakage of his photos is customary to praise for appearance. I will not do this for several reasons. First, it had already done to me many times. Secondly, in this case, I share the opinion of the majority only in part. Yes, we have a classic sports car, and the twisted stepper on his side testifies to the impressive technological possibilities of the plant's stamping equipment in the South Korean city of Ulsan, where this car will be produced, and about the skill of designers of the California studio Hyundai, where the novelty is drawn with this flank vehicle resembling Athletic custody.
However, in general, there is nothing particularly outstanding in the appearance of the Korean sports accuma. We have the usual, although a well-balanced combination of short sinks, a long base, large wheels, a streamlined profile and dual exhaust pipes. There is an obvious desire to be no worse than competitors, and above all the landmark number one - Infiniti G37. Koreans tried (and more or rather, Joel Pysianovski, who worked on them until recently) and show originality. But it seemed to have ceased. The headlights of the wonderful cut looked quite well on the concept shown in 2007, but at the serial sports accumulation seems a bit vulgar and strongly give asiachin. The coupe looks not so sickly as the sedanone connected with his curly radiator grille, but within the framework of that noble simplicity, which distinguishes, for example, the profile of his roof, the designers could not keep the designers.
The feed looks a bit hard, but this is the usual fee for the planting formula 2 + 2. Moreover, it is really possible to sit down on the rear seats, although not without some effort, and not only throw a baseball cap or the lady's handbag. The rear seats are cleared, and access to them is quite difficult, but in contrast, let's say, from Nissan 370z they are. The trunk also won't call decorative - the standard golf bag is easy to fit into it. In short, you will not refuse a certain practicality.
Enveloping interior design. Sports-lathes with developed side support and adjustable lumbar support are very comfortable. Rare case: head restraints help, and do not interfere with the driver. In addition, they are active, and with an accident you have more chances to save your neck. In addition, six airbags, ESP, PBS, ABS, ABS, electronic distribution system, an empty braking amplifier, a tire pressure amplifier, are responsible for the safety of rides. Excellent for sports spider review.
Hip-walled American front bumper, judging by the inflated form, can alone provide a couple of extra stars in the European Crash test, although it looks not too elegant. However, all these reasoning is a clean taste, and I fully admit that in the states for which this car was created, it is these oblique headlights will cause the greatest furyor. No wonder the Painsky designer recently lured to the California Studio Mercedes-Benz.
The main reason for my deliberate indifference to the delights of Genesis Coupe is that if this is the main advantage of this car, I was in vain did the way here from the other end of the world. If we talk about appearance, then before your eyes are preceding Hyundai Coupe. Look at him - so in front of you real Aston Martin. But in fact, it is very successful, pretty and cheap imitation of a sports car, under the spectacular knowledge of which the banal front-wheel drive chassis is hidden. Is the Genesis Coupe of the same imitation, only with rear-wheel drive?
In practice
Drive on the rear wheels. The advantages of this scheme are well known. With intensive acceleration, the car is predatory for the rear wheels, and not powerless asphalt scraper unloaded by the front. In turn, the front wheels released from the power functions turn into a subtle interconnection tool between the driver and the road, which can be configured, how to adjust the violin, not to mention greater geometric freedom and, therefore, a smaller turning radius. Finally, it is the perfect weighing along the axes, allowing you to drive a car as one whole, to let it into drifts and side slip, but even put it on end. But there are many rear-wheel drive cars, in which all these advantages are impossible to feel. And there are those in which the rear-wheel drive is felt as a trunk, overlooking the blades. And click on gas
Las Vegas is a curious city. Especially in the evening, when neon lights of this paradise are lit for sinners. Looks fantastic. But on this trip, I was interested in reality, not Mirage. And the reality of Nevada is the desert scorched by the sun. And in it - a winding strip of the asphalt autodrome Spring Mountain Motorsport Ranch. It is here that you can distinguish the present from mirage, external from genuine.
I am empty for gas and in response I hear the morning, hoarse, the evil growl of purebred sports car. Yes, under the hood - V6. And he sounds like a real. Sport cars with the engine V6 is actually not a lot in the world. But shove under the hood V6 - it is still half.
The suspension on its device does not constitute anything revolutionary. Front - McPherson racks. Rear is an independent multi-dimension. The racing specification is equipped with 19-inch wheels (in basic configuration - 18-inch), more rigid springs and shock absorbers, transverse stability stabilizers, both front and rear, rear spoiler, Brembo brakes and an inter-wheeled differential of increased friction Torsen. All elements of the true sports car are obvious. But the question is not only in their presence. The secret of a sports car - in the ability of engineers to force all these excellent thing that work together. This secret is fastened by decades of experience. Was the Koreans with the go to achieve success in this art? Route will show.
I start carefully, and here it is the first impression that is not always the most faithful, but in this case I am not going to hide it, because it was pretty bright: the Korean coupe immediately seemed unusually easy, obedient, friendly, alive and responsive in management. It immediately offers friendship. But I want something more. And add speed.
The first thing to do, getting acquainted with the new and allegedly narrative car, is to feel the limit of the possibilities of its front axle. Rolls are minimal, but the suspension is quite acceptable processes irregularities and curb. Superclosure will not call it even in the racing specification. Osmeliev, I enter the next turns in more and more speeds, but the front tires confidently cling to the asphalt. Insufficient turning, this energous misfortune of fun sports cars, here and does not smell.
Now rent the rear axle, for which we turn off the ESP, we enter the turn is deliberately slowly and carefully reap the Korean gaze pedal. He immediately tries to stand up, that is, go sideways, requiring intense, but not at all fencing steering steering. The miracles of the reaction are not necessary. We put the Korean second plusion. While everything is like in the present sports car.
Now the most important thing is the balance. The improvement of the front / rear axle - 55/45. It looks good on paper. And in fact? I enter into a promial on a decent, but much less than the maximum allowed from the point of view of the coupling properties of tires, speed, put the steering wheel into some single-position in relation to the turn and in the influence of gas. And here it is a lamprotteer's numerous fun - a protracted controlled drift, which is perfectly adjusted by the interaction of the steering wheel and traction. With the help of gas, you can control almost any rear-wheel drive car, but it does not always give pleasure and is not always safe.
I have no doubt about Genesis Coupe. He is real.
To the tops
Genesis Coupe is our first purebred sports car, "said Mr. Hong-Sun Lee, the President of the Company's Research Unit, representing a novelty of the world. Do not argue with this. But Mr. Lee goes to his arguments much further than the establishment of this fact. Genesis Coupe is a real cult car, "he says.
Well, according to the price, perhaps, you can agree with this statement. Prices in Russia will be determined closer to the start of sales, which is scheduled for the second half of 2009. And in the United States with the V6 engine it will cost from 25 thousand dollars. But there is also a version with a 2-liter turbo engine, which, according to Russian representation, will have 90% of all sales. She stands in the States from 22 thousand dollars. This option is not so famously behaves on the highway, but the lights of a large and sinful city in its convex sides are not worse than. Perhaps the car with such a price ratio, external and running qualities can actually become a cult phenomenon of youth mass culture.
This car promises to be the most affordable 300-strong sports car on the planet, "says the nameless author of the Korean press release. And we will not argue with this. But the fact is that Koreans clearly aimed at something more than recognition from night riders with limited financial opportunities.
The creators of the sports unit of the near-section hints that, thanks to the widespread use of high-strength steel, Genesis Coupe turned out to be easier than superconcourt infiniti G37, and its body is 24% tougher to bend than that of BMW M3 in the Body E46. And on the dialing of Genesis Coupe with V6, not only infiniti G37, but also BMW 335i. And the American Muscle Cars of the newest generation in the face of Camaro and Challenger and look at the heavy bodybuilders next to the real athlete.
Genesis Coupe - a new landmark in the sports compartment segment - this is what the representatives of Hyundai claim. And here, perhaps, it's time to open a small friendly discussion and say that Genesis Coupe, perhaps, can already be compared with Infiniti G37 (especially with regard to price handicap), but so far it is, of course, not BMW M3.
Close to ideal
Genesis Coupe is a real sports car. He succeeded in an article and a norov. The fact of its appearance, he abolishes the Japanese-European hegemony on the sports unit. But I can not say that the behavior of this car corresponds to the accurate ideal, which was able to achieve intense efforts by the BMW specialists over the decades.
The mechanical transmission looks dimly: switching is not so clear, but a rescued and capricious clutch causes the car to twitch with fast switches. Some complaints cause a steering system, too easily reacting to the driver's whim. Even the fact that Genesis Coupe is such a good and friendly, says not only for, but also against. This car will not call weapons, his reactions are calm and quite blurred. They lack fine tuning, weapons sharpening, which is more like grinding. Even Brembo brakes are not so ferocious and bruises, as you expect from them.
The dual feeling causes the salon. On the one hand, excellent sports buckets, on the other hand, the same steering wheel that has no adjustment of the removal, which is at least strange. It looks wildness. Good skin is combined with dubious quality plastic in some details. However, I think already began to judge this car by the highest measure, taking into account the slightest nuances of his behavior and finishes. Because it is this level of assessment that he deserves. Without a doubt, he has already reached this level.
Superpower
The value of such a car as Hyundai Genesis Coupe is far from the simple praise, which, undoubtedly, deserves this model against the background of the most terrible competitors. Who said that the era of great geographical discoveries ended? No, she continues. There were times when there were only two supercontinent - Europe and America on the automobile globe. Japanese cars in the 50s caused only laughter. But a couple of decades passed, and a new superpower appeared on the automotive map of the world - Japan. She has a huge territory on this map. Automotive Russia is only tiny, barely distinguishable and increasingly blurred by the waves of the Economic Ocean island at its west coast. The captains of the economy recently are generally arguing in general: is it, Russia? Of the world bays, China's romance floods, but in the top-level car manufacturers nuclear club, the last half a century has entered a very limited number of countries: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, USA and Japan. They differed from the rest of the world not so much by the number of products produced as the level of automotive culture. Hyundai Genesis Coupe is still too early to call a cult car. But from the point of view of engineering culture, it marks the phenomenon of a civilization scale. Over our eyes on the world map, another superpower appears.
Some Technical Specifications Hyundai Genesis Coupe 2.0 TURBO
Dimensions, mm.
4630x1865x1385
Base, mm.
2820
Curb weight, kg
1495-1545
engine's type
gasoline L4 with turbocharged
Working volume, cube. cm
1998
Max. Power, hp / rpm
210/6000
Max. Moment, nm / rpm
299/2000
Transmission
mechanical 6-speed
Drive unit
rear
Max. Speed, km / h
223
Overclocking time 0-100 km, with
8,0
Fuel consumption (medium), l / 100 km
9,0
Vladimir Cheekladnikov
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A source: Magazine "Autopanoram"