Genesis Motor
The Genesis G70 is one of 13 Genesis Motor models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 2017. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Genesis G70 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Porsche Porsche Taycan — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Genesis G70 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Gasoline: / 2.0 L Hyundai Theta engine#G4KL / Theta II Turbocharger / T-Gasoline direct injection / GDi Inline-four engine / I4 / 2.5 L Hyundai Smartstrea; kerb weight is recorded at 1595 - (2.0T/2.5T sedan) / 1690 - (2.2D/3.3T sedan) / 1650 - (shooting brake); drive goes through 6-speed List of Hyundai transmissions#M6VR2 / M6VR2 Manual transmission / manual / 8-speed List of Hyundai transmissions#A8LR1 / A8LR1/List of Hyundai transmissions#A8TR1 / A8TR1 A; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Genesis Motor's own catalogue the Genesis G70 sits alongside the Genesis Electrified G80, the Genesis Essentia, the Genesis G80 (RG3), the Genesis G90 (HI). Design is credited to Peter Schreyer (pre-facelift) / Luc Donckerwolke (facelift). Assembly is recorded at South Korea: Ulsan.
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