I do remember being in an rental Hyundai, it did it's job fine as an car to take place after an car crash that ruined the front right wheel.
Quality of their cars was never in question: They just look either overstyled (recent trend) or nondescript (past vehicles), much like every other asian manufacturer.
Front end looks like a nauseated, cross-eyed face. Discontinuity in the window line makes very little sense. Nothing special overall, certainly not a car I could dream of.
Helps with rear seat visibility. Makes it easier to pull the "look, of course its a family car" move, much to the disapproval of the other half, but enough to maybe get a concession.
Indeed. Looking like a family car isn't exactly a plus for a so-called sportscar, and I can think of a handful of better-integrated solutions to achieve more or less the same funcional effect. Either way, the Genesis Coupè is possibly their best effort so far, and I don't see it breaking any new grounds in car design.
Some people have children, and also want a sporty coupe, but don't have a lot of money. A guy in my parents street has children and a Hyundai coupe as the second car. It has 4 seats and a good sized boot, the rear seats can accommodate a child seat if needed. Therefore it works excellently as a second car for families where one parent desperately wants to have any amount of fun where the other wants something more practical. Sure, a Lotus Evora is better in every single way, but it is also more than 10x the price second hand. For people in that sort of situation it is one of very few vehicles that fulfills those duties. It's a car for car enthusiasts who would have little choice otherwise. And that imo is quite respectable. And of course it fulfills other roles too. Such as a coupe with a huge boot space, a cheap to maintain and reliable car, relatively cheap to insure because front wheel drive.
It's actually RWD. And I disagree that you need four doors for a family car; when I was growing up we didn't have a four-door car until my father was dead and I was old enough to sit in the front. I grew up riding around in the back of that Sunbird in my avatar, and when it wasn't that it was a regular-cab pickup. Shuffling kids around in a coupe might be a bit of a pain, but it's not insurmountable. Now if you have more than 3 kids, it gets to be a problem, but a lot of people these days don't (unfortunately).
I didn't mention anything about 4 doors. I said 4 seats. I'm not sure putting your kids in the boot of a 2 seat car would get wife approval The UK Hyundai Coupe must be a different car to the US genesis coupe then. I assumed they were the same thing (just a newer generation in above pictures) and that they wouldn't change the drive train layout from generation to generation . This is the specific car the neighbor has (2nd gen): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyundai_Tiburon Just done a quick check. We don't seem to get the genesis coupe in the UK, only the old Coupe and the Veloster which was apparently its replacement. Unlike those two cars the genesis coupe is a rwd car. Either way, the genesis coupe is still a capable second car for families.
Eh, it's kind of subjective really, considering the Genesis sedan would be more practical. The Genesis coupe kinda really falls within the lines of up against the Nissan 370z/Infiniti G37/Q60 and any other similar 2 door coupes in that segment. Round where I live really though, the turbo'd 4 cylinder "base" models are generally driven by high schoolers who soon destroy the turbos on them after a couple years or so, the V6 models are far and in between, I've seen some done up really nicely, but typical most are just "stanced".
The Hyundai Coupe that we got in the UK was only available with a 4cyl front wheel drive configuration. So it doesn't appeal to that group of people so much. On the topic of coupés. The Peugeot x07 coupé range of vehicles always seem to make my head turn when I see one in real life. Then I go and look at a picture of one and think, nah, it's not that great. Then I see another in real life and the cycle repeats. Anyone else feel the same way about them? Especially when you see one with really nice paint.
You can tell it's a Kia based purely on how they have underlined the "please do" of the "please do not touch". My actual opinion is that it looks straight out of an episode of Pimp My Ride, in a bad way.
For me, its the combination of the colour, the rims and the moulding around the rear headrests. It also doesn't look like it has any roll over protection built in. So it's clearly not a prototype aimed at hitting roads soon. Maybe with chrome door handles to match the front it might look better?
