WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.280 For whatever reason, manufacturers seem to think that electric car buyers want an iPad 00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:09.740 grafted to a dash or nothing else, and what we actually want is this right here, a mom 00:00:09.740 --> 00:00:16.600 wagon with 500 horsepower. This is the GV70 Electric, and it might be the best sleeper on the market. 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:22.400 Let's have a look. The only thing on this car that will tip you off that it's electric is the lack of a grill 00:00:22.400 --> 00:00:27.280 rate here. And also, if you press on this little logo, you get the charging port. 00:00:27.280 --> 00:00:33.560 There we get up to 250 kilowatt DC fast charging, which will take you from 10 to 80 percent 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:37.000 in 18 minutes in a lab. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:41.160 In the real world, you're not going to see sustained charging rates that high, but at 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:46.200 the same time, it does charge quite quickly. I think the design overall looks fantastic. 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:51.560 I really like Genesis's double headlights here, even though the color of ours, I think 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:55.400 sucks. I would absolutely spend the extra money to get the matte paint. 00:00:55.400 --> 00:01:01.440 It looks so much better. On the side, we've got some 20-inch rims, which I think look pretty cool, but this would 00:01:01.440 --> 00:01:07.440 probably look amazing on some Rota forms. We also have some massive four-piston calipers. 00:01:07.440 --> 00:01:12.480 Over here, we've got door handles that just function like normal door handles, incredible 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:16.520 innovation Genesis, and also we have auto-dimming side mirrors. 00:01:16.520 --> 00:01:23.760 I absolutely love that. Around back, we've got what I think is the only mediocre angle of this car, kind of a 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:30.040 flat arse to it, not a whole lot going on, but I do not care to admit how long it took 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:35.760 me to figure out that the tailgate switch was up here. 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:38.920 In the trunk, we've got not a whole lot of space. 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:43.080 It seems like that the whole floor had to be brought up a little bit for those batteries 00:01:43.080 --> 00:01:48.800 on the bottom, and even under here, we've only got room for our charger and our little 00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:53.160 privacy cover. Not tons of space, but it is adequate. 00:01:53.160 --> 00:01:58.920 Back here, we've also got 12-volt power, 120-volt power, and manual releases for the 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:04.800 rear seats. Very nice. 00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:09.440 Hopping into the back seat, this is an excellent spot to be on a lot of EVs because the battery 00:02:09.440 --> 00:02:14.120 has to be along the bottom, especially the rear seat headroom will be sacrificed. 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:20.680 Here though, no problems at all. At six feet, I still have an inch or two of headroom here, and also you can recline the 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:29.400 seats back to about here. We also have climate controls, rear seat, heat, USB type A, a nice little armrest, and 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:34.400 a manual privacy screen so that your kids don't get too much sun on them. 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:38.300 Hopping into the driver's seat, it is very clear that Genesis' materials engineers have 00:02:38.300 --> 00:02:44.800 been very hard at work. We've seen so much piano black recently on cars, but they've somehow managed to create 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:51.320 a material that's an even bigger fingerprint magnet, and look, look at this, oh my God, 00:02:51.320 --> 00:02:56.760 that is disgusting. Touch around here all the time, every single time that you shift it into drive, use the 00:02:56.760 --> 00:03:05.480 infotainment, hit home, you are just smearing, oh look, once you fully finger this though, 00:03:05.480 --> 00:03:12.760 the rest of the materials are excellent. We don't have that stupid steering wheel from the GV60, we have just a proper leather 00:03:12.760 --> 00:03:15.760 one that feels so good, it's heated as well. 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:20.840 Everything else here aside from some of these capacitive buttons feels great, most of the 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:26.320 controls that you want have dedicated switches, we've also got nice home buttons, and all 00:03:26.320 --> 00:03:30.720 of the infotainment can easily be controlled with this little knob right here. 00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:36.160 Like sure, it is a bit of a reach if you do need to use the touchscreen, but 90% of the 00:03:36.160 --> 00:03:44.080 time, this is doing everything that I need it to. The tactility continues with the climate menu, we've got some excellent knobs here for the 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:49.800 temperature, and although we do have a touchscreen for most of the controls, it works pretty well 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:57.000 and everything stays in the same spot. Also the cluster looks really good, although they do have a 3D effect that looks really 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:01.720 sweet for about 5 minutes until you turn it off because it just is so much easier to read 00:04:01.720 --> 00:04:08.160 without it on. For the seats, these are incredibly comfortable, they are heated, ventilated, we have bolster 00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:12.800 adjustment, lumbar adjustment, and even massage functions. 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:17.080 In the passengers seat things aren't quite as good, we don't have bolsters, we don't 00:04:17.080 --> 00:04:22.920 have lumbar, we don't have a massage function, not that any of that is really a deal breaker. 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:28.280 What is annoying though, is that reaching this screen is very difficult. 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:32.840 It's a bit of a reach for the driver too, but from the passenger side, using this control 00:04:32.840 --> 00:04:38.000 is a lot more difficult, especially like volume is a bit of a reach, it's really not that 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.920 bad, but it's very clearly driver-orientated and the passenger kind of just eh. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:50.160 Fortunately though, the storage in here is great. We've got enough room in the cup holder for an LTD store.com water bottle, we've got 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:55.680 a nice spot for your sunglasses, that's something that seems to always be forgotten, absolutely 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:02.320 love to see it. We have got a nice big space here, we have an amazing panoramic sunroof, and down here 00:05:02.320 --> 00:05:05.920 there's a Qi charger, nothing you'll ever actually use it because you don't have wireless 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:13.120 Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. Okay, time for a real launch, we've got it in Sport mode, traction control off, and 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:18.840 the most important thing, we have a boost button right here that takes us from 429 to 00:05:18.840 --> 00:05:22.320 483 horsepower for 10 seconds. 00:05:22.320 --> 00:05:26.320 That hurt. Oh my goodness. 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:31.320 A revolutionary U-Ride. 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:51.360 It has a 0-60 of 4.2 seconds, and this boost button right here is the difference between 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.720 the front wheels having traction and it trying to torque steer you into the ditch. 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:02.320 It is quite a bit of fun, just oh my. 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:08.160 The poor suspension in this thing was very clearly designed around a car that does not 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:14.880 have this kind of horsepower because you can just hook it back and forth, it's hilarious. 00:06:14.880 --> 00:06:18.480 Boost mode. 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:23.440 Try to take me into the left lane there, I would not recommend launching it in traffic. 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:31.120 Not that you should do that anyway. That said, this thing is no slouch in the corners, we can just hook it in here, use the throttle 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.880 to balance it through the corner, and oh my. 00:06:34.880 --> 00:06:40.640 The amount of speed that you can carry through a corner is truly staggering given the 5,000 00:06:40.640 --> 00:06:46.880 pound weight of this thing. But that said, it isn't perfect. 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:52.760 This excellent handling that we're seeing right now comes at the expense of some extremely 00:06:52.760 --> 00:06:58.840 stiff anti-roll bars, which means that when you're going on sort of rough bumpy things 00:06:58.840 --> 00:07:03.880 that aren't even side to side, you kind of get the, you might get in like a car that 00:07:03.880 --> 00:07:11.600 you've modified with stiffer anti-roll bars. I do have to give Genesis props for how well they have tuned the suspension, but that said, 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:18.520 it isn't perfect. This is 5,000 pounds of car, and it means that to control that much mass, the high-speed 00:07:18.520 --> 00:07:25.160 damping can be a little bit on the harsh side, like it's really strange going from a Prius 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:31.320 to a massive luxury SUV, and the Prius is a bit more comfy over bumpy roads. 00:07:31.320 --> 00:07:35.400 That said though, for the most part, I would much rather be driving this thing. 00:07:35.400 --> 00:07:41.280 It is nearly silent in this cabin, as long as you aren't on rough roads, largely and 00:07:41.280 --> 00:07:44.640 thanks to the active noise cancellation that the speakers are doing. 00:07:44.640 --> 00:07:49.520 Like, this is what, like one of the most quiet cabins we've been in, Andy? 00:07:49.520 --> 00:07:56.760 Top tier for sure, S tier. In here we have the 15 speaker sound system from Lexicon, and it is fantastic. 00:07:56.760 --> 00:08:04.400 The speaker locations are a bit strange. They're all on the door here, mids and tweeters, so your phantom image is kind of down here 00:08:04.400 --> 00:08:08.720 instead of up surrounding you, but otherwise, it is fantastic. 00:08:08.720 --> 00:08:13.360 Now in the ICE version, you get a sub under each seat, whereas in this version, we have 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:19.240 one less speaker and the sub is up in the dash, but the extension is very good, down 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:27.860 to about 35 hertz. Now it is a little bit trebly for my tastes, and unfortunately the EQ is pretty much useless. 00:08:27.860 --> 00:08:38.260 The bands are just in the wrong spot, but overall, dang it is good. 00:08:38.260 --> 00:08:45.380 Also in here are some of the best driver assists on the market. The adaptive cruise control is excellent and very confidence inspiring. 00:08:45.380 --> 00:08:50.380 Like, I went through some dirty north fan traffic and just didn't even touch the steering 00:08:50.380 --> 00:08:53.660 wheel the whole time. It just drove me through all of that. 00:08:53.660 --> 00:08:58.100 Now the lane centering itself isn't great once you're going a little bit faster. 00:08:58.100 --> 00:09:03.140 I find it's kind of always making a bunch of micro adjustments, and I'd much rather drive 00:09:03.140 --> 00:09:06.580 myself than just worry about nannying this. 00:09:06.580 --> 00:09:09.860 But like, we're coming up right here, this person's stopping. 00:09:09.860 --> 00:09:15.100 It's very smooth, very confidence inspiring, and just great job guys. 00:09:15.100 --> 00:09:22.540 Look ma, no hands. Now Genesis do have a whole bunch of safety systems in here that range from fantastic to 00:09:22.540 --> 00:09:27.580 downright annoying, but fortunately the annoying ones can be just fully disabled and you never 00:09:27.580 --> 00:09:33.620 have to worry about them again. Now of course, no car is perfect, and this does have a bit of a flaw. 00:09:33.620 --> 00:09:41.420 The range. In here we only have a 77kWh when I would expect something more in the 100-105 range 00:09:41.420 --> 00:09:45.820 for a car of this price and of this class. 00:09:45.820 --> 00:09:51.420 That said though, you still get 380km of range, and I've been pushing more like 400, 00:09:51.420 --> 00:09:57.020 so it is very livable for most people, but if you're road tripping, it'll be a problem. 00:09:57.020 --> 00:10:04.820 That said though, I really like this car. It is extremely comfortable, extremely quiet, and wicked fast. 00:10:04.820 --> 00:10:12.940 So the GV70 Electric starts at just over $80,000 Canadian, and it stops at just over $80,000 00:10:12.940 --> 00:10:18.500 Canadian. There's only a single spec, and it comes with everything that you see here. 00:10:18.500 --> 00:10:22.300 The only option is the pink color, which you should definitely change. 00:10:22.300 --> 00:10:26.220 I think this stacks up really well against the competition, like the Lyric and the Model 00:10:26.220 --> 00:10:31.220 Y. If you're looking for something that is wicked powerful and very comfortable, and you're 00:10:31.220 --> 00:10:34.620 not too concerned about that range. 00:10:34.620 --> 00:10:39.620 I think that until we get solid state batteries, this is the best that an electric car is going 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:45.980 to get. Sure, it's heavy, but you can hit this boost mode right here, and oooooh, I absolutely 00:10:45.980 --> 00:10:49.660 love it. Just like I love you guys for watching this video. 00:10:49.660 --> 00:10:53.540 Hit like, get subscribed, and just have a fantastic old day. 00:10:53.540 --> 00:10:57.900 See you later. We'll have a cheap car next. Well, it's electric, it's pretty expensive, so.