By Mauricio Lezcano / carsntravel.com / Photos Genesis News USA
For 2017 the new Genesis G90 premium-luxury sedan delivers an unprecedented combination of refined performance, human-focused technology and segment-leading safety features. The G90 standardizes advanced safety technology with a suite of active safety features for superior passenger and vehicle protection.
Exterior
The G90 identity is conveyed through a Genesis-family design feature, the CREST grille, and crowned with the winged Genesis emblem. Perfectly proportioned, the G90 combines a prominent hood with short overhangs, an unequivocal manifestation of its performance rear-drive architecture. Available full-LED signature headlights flow from fascia to fender, a key design element of the new Genesis brand. On the lower fascia, standard LED Daytime Running Lights add to the distinctive illumination signature. The unique G90 grille design also supports a bold and confident front visage.
From front to rear, a bold, arcing character line spans the length of G90, accentuating the vehicle’s dynamic profile. Refined use of chrome elements also serve to create an elegant and premium appearance. From the rear, dual asymmetrical exhaust tips surrounded by lower fascia accents provide a substantial reminder of available power. Vertical full LED light signature elements provide a unique rear illumination signature.
Interior
Effortless ergonomics, interior design harmony, convenience and luxurious comfort helped craft the G90 interior design. From the horizontal and graceful layout of driver controls and genuine, premium material selection, to meticulous craftsmanship, precision Nappa leather-stitched instrument panel and an elegant material color palette, virtually every element of the interior focuses on the passengers.
The highest-quality, authentic materials adorn the cabin, with ease of operation and intrinsic beauty as fundamental priorities for the interior. Throughout the cabin, the controls for these latest technologies are luxuriously ensconsed amid Nappa leather and genuine wood accents, delighting the senses and cosseting the occupants in a first-class ambience. Even the Lexicon audio speaker grilles convey an ultra-luxury ambience, precision-machined of high-grade aluminum alloy.
Passenger space is a key component of interior comfort and design, and the new G90 has significantly improved spaciousness, derived in part from a generous 4.5-inch increase in wheelbase for greater passenger comfort. This increase in wheelbase also resulted in reduced overall overhangs when compared with the previous model. Inside the cabin, this translates to superior front headroom and legroom compared with key competitors.
Convenience Features
Simplicity and intuitive function were key elements in the development of G90 convenience features. In developing the car’s specifications and trim levels, every effort was made to provide customers with everything most customers would need without anything unnecessary or overly complicated.
Many of the car’s features rely on interaction with the car’s audio visual system displayed via a luxurious 12.3-inch high-definition widescreen in the center stack, operated via DIS control knob. The screen plays a key role in enhancing the ease of parking and tight urban maneuvering for drivers. A one-megapixel digital camera is activated when parking, simultaneously sharing the screen with a high-resolution 360-degree Multi-view monitor with steering guidelines. A heads-up display helps drivers to find key driving data while keeping their eyes safely on the road ahead. In addition, a seven-inch high-resolution TFT-LCD display enhances data recognition for the driver from the center gauge cluster.
Elsewhere in the finely-appointed cabin, the ventilation system offers three distinct zones of control with a segment-first cabin CO2-level sensor and Air Quality System that allows additional fresh air to enter the cabin when needed. The G90 steering wheel also offers a heating function as standard. Passengers can now conveniently charge their mobile devices with the latest Qi wireless-charging standard technology and utilize both front and rear USB ports. For ease of entry, the G90 includes a proximity key with an integrated push-button start system. Power rear and rear side window sunshades are also standard. From the outside, a power Smart Trunk with hands-free opening adds convenience whenever the owner’s hands are full for convenient loading and unloading, and all doors have power door closure function.
Powertrains
G90 is fitted with a choice of two gasoline engines, a 3.3-liter direct-injected, twin turbo-charged V6 engine developing an estimated 365 horsepower @ 6,000 rpm, or the top-trim 5.0-liter direct-injected V8 engine developing an estimated 420 horsepower @ 6,000 rpm. With either powertrain, G90 boasts impressive performance characteristics even while offering exceptional passenger comfort.
The 420 horsepower V8 power plant develops an estimated 383 lb.-ft. @ 5,000 rpm. Hyundai Motor’s first twin-turbocharged engine, the all-new 3.3L direct injected twin-turbocharged V6, also boasts strong performance with an estimated 376 lb.-ft. of torque throughout a wide RPM range of 1,300 – 4,500 rpm. Both G90 power plants employ electric thermostats and mid-position-lock Continuously Variable Valve Timing for enhanced responsiveness and fuel efficiency.
Further, both engines benefit from an advanced 2nd-generation 8-speed automatic transmission with extensive light weighting, reduced clutch-disc drag, lighter torque-converter components and reduced losses from lower oil pump displacement compared with the previous generation. This new transmission boasts lower overall weight, higher efficiency and more compact dimensions as well.
Summary
A fundamental brand characteristic of all Genesis models is the careful melding of sporty agility and refined performance, with advanced technological innovation at its core, G90 features GENESIS SMART SENSE, a suite of driver safety technologies. These features cover the full spectrum of active and passive safety, from driver alertness and focus to total occupant safety, and even the safety of other drivers around you. Inside the cabin, fine materials and textures from around the world meet refined ergonomics to provide occupants with absolute convenience and luxurious comfort.
The all-new G90 range consists of the 3.3 L Twin-Turbo V6 RWD and AWD and the 5.0L Direct-injected V8 RWD and AWD and are priced from $68,100.00, 70,600.00, $69,700.00 and $72,200.00 respectively.
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