Grandpa cars I absolutely love them and today we have the absolute best one on
the market this right here is the Genesis G80 EV and man it is a wicked
car to drive let's take a look I think the looks of this thing are incredible I
was asked this morning at McDonald's if I was driving a Bentley and nope just a
Genesis also a press car nothing on here shows you that it's an EV except for
just a little logo here and there we have the charging port 350 kilowatt
charging that is freaking fast in see right here we have a little air curtain
to put air around the wheel so it doesn't create too much turbulence
overall coefficient of drag of 0.26 is
excellent not as low as something like the eqs but it also doesn't look like a
shoe that earns at a range of about 450
kilometers really good here we have two
headlights it's I thought it was kind of weird at first but it's really grown on
me and I especially like how it goes all the way to the side with the indicators
looks fantastic in my opinion these Arrow rims are only for the EV model too
bad I quite like them I also appreciate that they're only 19 inches which only
they are still massive but at least it isn't taking up all of this helps with
ride Comfort a bit also we have some Michelin excises on here not surprising
but 515 foot-pounds of torque cannot be
contained by winter tires poor guys they tried though also I
really like how the indicators go all the way along the side just a nice
little detail the total length of this guy is just over five meters meaning you
should legitimately make sure that it will fit in your garage before you buy
it also you would think with that much car you'd be getting lots of storage
let's see if it has a front
I haven't opened this yet I'm just assuming that there's nothing in here
yep that looks like an engine right there EV but wow there is no extra space
in here whatsoever that's one of the many problems of this being an EV
conversion let's look at the other ones the 87.2 kilowatt hour battery is stored
underneath the car which means you don't get a whole lot of room in here uh seats
as low as it'll go I have maybe inch and
a half two inches of space right here I'm six feet also means no sunroof that
friggin sucks I love sunroofs but uh you don't get one here because otherwise
your head would be I don't know just hitting the stuff that holds it also
trunk space not fantastic especially given the size of this car big old hump
right there where I'm presuming the high voltage Electronics live story mode
bosses this is not your car you might be able to fit a body in there probably not
even one have to chop them up it's terrible also sorry Genesis Canada uh
the material blue of this looks fantastic kind of changes from green to
blue depending on how you look at it but uh it's winter in Vancouver we did the
best we good hopping into the back seat
oh wow I don't have nearly enough legroom here good thing I have controls
for the passenger seat so I can just move it up like that oh there we go rear
seats in this very comfortable only small complaint if you're a little bit
taller than me your head's going to be hitting the ceiling I'm millimeters away
also very nice middle wrist rest that
has our seat Heating and our rear peasant blocker got all three of them
wait oh my God I have to do it myself backseat's terrible not actually also
have rear climate control very nice popping into the driver's seat this
thing is exceptionally comfortable I absolutely love it we have all of the
controls that you expect to have full stir adjustment even seat firmness
adjustment no massage sheets though so uh that's points off for that in this
price range oh wait I lied turns out there is a button over here that allows
you to do massaging stuff isn't in the infotainment for some reason but
whatever select seat then Ergo motion
seat I think it's only for my ours the mode Cycles as follows pelvic stretching
lumbar stretching whole body oh that
feels pretty good one thing that I'm not sure I'm convinced of this steering
wheel looks kind of weird very functional though so that's a plus we
don't have stupid capacitive buttons or anything like that good old roller for
volume that's sort of the whole theme of this everything in here just makes sense
to use it took me only like a day to get used to using this car one normally
takes me four to a week depending on the
brand just stuff like oh I want it to be warmer turn the knob there we go want
turn the fan up or down boom right there super easy same with all of this it just
works and it's a dedicated button for it and everything in here feels fantastic
this is the sort of thing where like the eqs was showing off all of the tech that
Mercedes could shove into something whereas this right here is using Tech in
much more thoughtful ways where it actually like makes sense and you want
to use it also the buttons don't feel like garbage overall the quality of
materials in here is just exceptional the stuff that you want to be soft is
nice and soft stuff that you want to be hard it's nice and hard and it just well
it feels like the interior of a hundred thousand dollar car I like it let's give
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why you're spinning right there 0-60 in
just under five seconds this thing's pretty rapid although not in an insane
way like a lot of cars are like it's very subdued and it's tuning now it is
electric motors so you have the problem where like once you're above 100
kilometers per hour or so it is sort of running out of gas and something much
less powerful that's gas is going to be able to blast past you but you're
already speeding then anyway so unless you're on the Autobahn who cares most of
your time I imagine will be spent in Comfort mode and man it is comfortable
in here they have active noise cancellation from the speakers which
makes us one of the quietest cars that I've ever been in this is Apparently one
decibel louder on the highway than a Mercedes S-Class Maybach hot damn now
the suspension isn't perfect in sport
mode it's not really sporty it's kind of wallowy and it's a bit reboundy which I
found is sort of a theme in Hyundai cars it also isn't perfect at filtering out
bumps like when you're at lower speeds it tends to get a little bit rough just
because there's so much weight in this thing but overall especially for an
electric car man this drives nice it's
the sort of thing we're able to just I don't know sit back let it take you
along it's pretty great what makes that comfortable go from A to B experience
even better is the driving assists Lane centering this fantastic I'm just going
to let her do this turn here and I trust it for the most part also adaptive
cruise fantastic some of the best that I've ever experienced what makes this
all even better and more relaxing is the
Lexicon sound system it is it's a bit complicated but in a word it
is fantastic it's pretty clear this is a car made for old people and that
particularly shows with the sound system and how it's tuned the highs in this
much brighter than it should be if it's to just be flat bass not quite where it
should be our sound engineer Sam took
this and he found that plus three plus four in the base minus seven in the
treble is what got us the most accurate
to what we're looking for in a car even though there are 21 speakers in here I
was a little bit concerned at first because like the tweeters aim down the
mids are going into my leg the mid base is down there sub I don't know where
that is somewhere back there but somehow it becomes all coherent at lower volumes
The Sound Stage is sort of down here but you turn it up a bit
and it starts surrounding you it's fantastic
it's not the best sound system that I've ever heard like S90 absolutely thrashes
it eqs doesn't quite have the extension but much better Sound Stage but then
again apparently they only make the sound system for this car and the
Rolls-Royce Phantom so yeah it's pretty
freaking good now one thing you might have noticed is that the infotainment's
pretty far away so if I want to uh all the way over there not the best except
they have this little dial down here and it actually works really well so you
have physical buttons for home menu and back and then this sort of even an
Android Auto Works quite well but in genesis's system here Works fantastic
I've just been using this dial for everything instead of using the touch
screen and I actually have liked it way more than I expected
okay we've got some Corners here how does a handle
oh
pretty freaking good given the size of
this thing especially given that we're on winter tires here but it's not a
sports car by any stretch of the imagination so you do have the problems
of like some understeer it kind of feels like it's leaning over the front left
tire which isn't great but at the same time it does all of the handling in a
way that you know even if it isn't the most
dynamic ever it makes me just want to chill out this is probably the car that
I have been thrashing the least of all
the Press cars that I have like I've been respecting this thing because it
wants me to do that and that's a pretty
tall ask when you have a press car for a week no some nitpicks we have Flappy
paddles here to change how much regen you're getting and uh just leave it on
level two all the rest are bad so we don't have a true one pedal mode which
and also if you put it to like level one
of regen it feels kind of weird level three level four pretty terrible you
don't have proper like Auto hold or
proper one pedal driving so it's sort of like is decelerating you and then right
before you stop it starts accelerating it's weird I don't know just live with
level two you'll be happy also Auto hold pretty bad I just turned it off and then
I was happy so whatever oh well
traction control off corner these poor tires given the yacht-like
length of this car you might expect it to be terrible to park but with the rear
wheel steering and the excellent 360 cam this thing's actually very simple to get
into a tight spot can you come a bit closer to the rear of
the car what uh we wanted you in front of the car
actually I just meant to say the rear of the truck so with the Genesis G80 EV
this thing right here is a hundred and four thousand dollars Canadian which is
pretty steep but when you compare it to the competition it is very good compared
to the eqs this thing absolutely Slaughters it but then again like some
Heelys and a pack of Red Bull slutters at eqs so uh I don't know not too many
points there Genesis but man this right here as far as a car to just comfortably
get from point A to point B is absolutely fantastic this is where EVS
really and truly shine just comfortable grand Tours to get you to work and back
from work quietly and man
I really like this car if you're an
older dad or a grandpa man look into
this thing if you've got the cash because it is freaking worth it in my
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