You're taking the backroads home, arm out the window of an Austin Healey 3000. You're dancing delicately at the edge of grip in front of the muffled burble of a Porsche 912. You're cruising Main Street in a Stingray Corvette, dressed in a smart wool suit, a paragon of class and chrome and power. You're basking in the symphony of an Alfa Romeo GTV at full song, beautiful and simple gauges urging you to shift but tempting you to hold it just a bit longer. You're staring down the endless hood of an E-Type cresting nearly twice the top speed of many cars on the road. You're not shopping Datsuns, or Fiats, or MGBs anymore. As hard as you can for as long as you can! - keep luck on your side, take the risks, win win win, and one day you'll step out of that Genesis and into that F-Type.īut take yourself back a couple generations, step out of the time machine and walk onto the dealer lots of 1967 with roughly the same purchasing power you used to buy that Genesis. They give you that Sports Car fix, but ultimately they're stepping stones on the ladder to the likes of the F-Type, or the Corvette, or the Cayman. They're a little more expensive and a lot heavier than the Miatas or BR-86-ZS, with enough power that you don't have to repeat the old "slow-car-fast" monologue. We even - lucky us - have our affordable lightweight RWD fun with the likes of the Miata, GT86FRZ, and 124 Spider, but today they can survive a road trip without frying our nerves.īut the Genesis Coupe and its only natural predator, the 370Z, are part of a class of cars I like to call "My First Big Sports Car". We have our thumping V8 muscle cars, but today they can set lap time records, too. We have our family wagons, but today they can theoretically go off-road and have seatbelts even for the kids. We have our land yachts, now largely the domain of the Germans, but today they park themselves and crack 200MPH. We have our little economy cars with the Spark, or the Versa, or the Fiesta - but today they have carpet and A/C. 1967 was a half a century ago, and today we have many objectively better versions of the same sort of cars to choose from. Wronged by the consolidation of wealth in our society, and by the automotive industry as a whole. It is my opinion that every Hyundai Genesis driver - and you, especially, as a car enthusiast dedicated enough to spend your free time reading about cars - has been greatly wronged. You may notice, if you're the post-history-stalking sort, that I once rated every car I had ever driven. A 2015 Hyundai Genesis Coupe R-Spec holds the distinction of being the first car I ever test drove at a dealership, and was also the newest car I had ever driven by about two decades.
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