Hyundai Genesis

Hyundai Motor America announced a partnership with the Street Concept design model in the luxury Genesis coupe. Planned Genesis coupe will be introduced at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) in Las Vegas come November 4. "This car design waith the aggressive and forceful. Consistent with the high performance. Genesis coupe is the perfect car for SEMA," said Shawn Williams, owner of Street Concept in broadcasting authorized.

Wiliams added, the plan to improve the system so that the helm of the vehicle easier to control. Practical value of this approach are the desire of each person on how to be a concept car. Appearance akan sporty feel of the election of black camouflage color.Also the impression gained from the design grill, side lights, and the wing on the back. Volk wheels using the 19-inch racing. Suspensi which has been modified and combined with Brembo brakes. Exhaust and Magnaflow uses air channels designed to compensate for performance machine with a 3.8 liter 6 cylinder. Energy produced 306 hp as in the variants for sedan. In addition, Hyundai also provides variants inline turbocharged 4-cylinder that produces 210 hp power.



Hyundai Genesis sedan that is sold within a month this will be a big change, especially in the engines of the previous V8 plant with a capacity of 4.6 liters (4600 cc) will be replaced with a capacity up 5.0 liter (5000 cc). According to the production of Hyundai North America, John Krafcik, akan didongkrak Tau V8 engines capacity to reach 5.5 liters (5500 cc), but ideal for the replacement of fuel in order to maintain the fixed value not more than 5L (5000 cc).



For Hyundai, Tau V8 is more important than the figures mentioned a lot because the car is Hyundai's first car with a V8 engine designed and built its own and is also the first Hyundai car plant V8 sold United States after the fuel prices touching $ 4 level / gallon it. GM one of the largest car manufacturer worldwide to cancel plans to replace the Northstar V8 engine and Ford Motor is planning to cover the market with a V8 engine V6 EcoBoost engine. However, Hyundai more like the machine because it is equipped with a V8 even though not so favored.


Hyundai plans to sell the Genesis V8 Sedan plant as much as 20 percent of total production. As Krafcik, Hyundai will sell 50,000 units of the Genesis sedan and coupe model in this, but for the coupe model will not use the base because the V8 engine will be sold with a cheaper price compared to the sedan model. To model coupe sold for $ 33,000 while the sedan model sold for the price of $ 42,000. Meanwhile, the Product Manager of Hyundai Motor America said Derek Joyce, this is the third generation's Genesis coupe diajang SEMA. The continued development of the technology and design so that the car can be received over consumer trends change vehicle coupe. This car will be marketed starting spring 2009.

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