Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver. This is the Genesis GV70. SUV from Genesis. And,
boy, is it a looker of a car. Like all of the Genesis models I've driven, these get looked at
by everyone. Everywhere we go. It's amazing to look at. And there's loads of fantastic design
features on this car. The first thing I want to start with is the Genesis five year care plan.
So for five years you get your warranty, you get your servicing, you get over-the-air updates,
you get a courtesy car and you get roadside assistance included with every Genesis
car that you buy. That's a really fantastic package and it's a really good way
to get people interested in more than just the car but experience the genesis
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who are Genesis? I haven't heard of Genesis. Well, Genesis is the high end of Hyundai also.
You know what you're going to get in terms of a car that comes from a brand that you've heard of.
These cars are fantastic value, like everything that Genesis does
and this car starts of £43,000 approximately. This particular model aspect with a load of extras,
which we'll look at in a minute, is around the £50,000 mark, but the car starts around
£41,000. So the diesel going up to 43 at the top. This car also has the remote parking
from the key FOB, which I've loved, but it's been on Kia and Hyundai previously.
So another great feature that this and the design of this is very,
very, very eye catching. I mean, we've got these quad headlamp at the front here which are full
OLED, which has got a really distinct daytime running lights. We've got this
giant crest here which, if you remember, is meant to represent the logo of Genesis because
the wings of the two lights on each side and the crest is the grille here.
So that's how that looks. We've got these fantastic lines down the side of the bonnet,
which makes it look very sporty. I want to call out again the wheel design on
all of the genesis cause I've had and they make they are all fantastic hollow
wheel designs. I don't think there's a bad design. The genesis do for Alloy Wheels.
I think Genesis are winning the awards for the best
manufacturer design. Alloy wheels are all they are all attractive all look fantastic
all really well designed and very eye catching. I love all the wheels on all the Genesis models
I've driven and I'm sure that's going to continue going forward. So if you
asked cool looking wheels and these cars are definitely got everyone else be in my opinion.
Yes, this car can change lane automatically, just like you can get a Tesla to do
very, very cool from Genesis. Let's have a look under the bonnet of this.
GV 70 So we've got a big bonnet on Strats that's really, really nice. So this is a 2.2 liter
diesel eight speed automatic, putting out 206 horsepower and 442 meters to talk.
There's also a petrol version which puts out 300 horsepower and 330 meters of torque. This car does
between 30 and 40 miles per gallon. The petrol does between 27 and 29 miles per gallon. So the
diesel is obviously a lot more efficient on this call with full tank, it gave me about 520 miles
on the petrol version. It will be less than that, probably around 300 ish miles.
So if you want efficiency, Diesel's the way to go. There is no hybrid version of this. However,
the G80 Saloon has a hybrid electrified version and also there is the all electric GV 60,
which I'm going to check out hopefully soon as well. Yeah, I think too is we've got these same
struts for support and rigidity in the front of this car as well,
available exclusively in a very well-equipped £64,405 sport trim.
The new electrified gv70 is the top of the Genesis range and has a range of up to 283 miles w l tp
plus a powerful dual motor set up that delivers a combined output of up to 360
kilowatts for a 0 to 62 miles per hour time of just 4.2 seconds. It has advanced 800 volt
electrical architecture that delivers class leading charging flexibility with a 350
kilowatt rapid charger capable of replenishing the 77.4 kilowatt lithium ion battery pack
from 10% to 80% in just 18 minutes and is the top model within the Genesis range, even though
it isn't a purely electric model like the GV 60 Genesis have given the best of everything.
So what do I think about what Genesis have done? Well, they've brought out really striking,
beautiful looking cars to the UK since they launched in 2021.
They've all got a amazing design, they've got distinctive looks, they are very,
very eye catching and they come with a lot of technology. And whether we're talking about the
G70, which is Facelifted over our previous model or new designs like this, the Gv70 and the GV 80
and also the forthcoming GV Six, the EV, which is a brother of the Kiwi six and Hyundai Ioniq five.
These cars are just really, really, really fantastic cars. And I think Genesis deserve
a lot of credit for what they're doing, creating cars and only look good with
technology and have fantastic benefits like the five year care plan. A few other companies
are starting to do that. But for Genesis to come in straight away and offer that value
proposition is something which really stands out and which I'm very, very impressed with.
I certainly think if you haven't had a look at Genesis having driven one,
you should definitely take one for drive because they are fantastic,
fantastic cars. I've never been so impressed by a car company that I haven't heard of
until they launched before. So well done to Genesis. Let's talk
colors for a second. This is Barossa Burgundy, which is obviously a purple ish burgundy color.
But there's also other cool colors. There's a matte green and a matte
silver like you would have seen on my g70 shooting brake video as well.
Now talking about the design of the rear side of this car, you notice something interesting,
this line here, normally almost cars that go like this go to the end and go back and join up here.
But on the gv70, this line here, the silver line actually comes out underneath the rear
quarter window and then back and stops. That's a very unique design on the Gv70
another eye catching factor to consider when you're looking at this car. The rear of the
Gv70 has got just a distinctive design as the front. We've got four tail lights and they
wrap around from the side, which I love, just like on the front of the car, the Genesis logo.
We've got the little button on the windscreen wiper which lets you open and close the boot,
which I'm going to do in a second, just like the G70 shooting brake. And then we've got this silver
design at the back here and it's kind of honeycomb. Look where the sensors and the camera's
everything are at the back. There isn't any pixels in back of this car, it being the diesel.
But on the petrol version there are two exhaust, one on each side. And how about space in the
back of this car? Well, there's over 540 liters of space in the back of the gv70.
So you've got a lot of space. And you can also put down the seats at the rear as well
by pulling on the little taps here and here.
And then they will go down all the way like that. And then you have a lot of space here,
including here with the piano cover, which you can remove. And actually that
comes stored in this space here, which is very, very cool. I put it up there because
I obviously wanted to cover always in the back, but there's a lot of space back here.
You can fit quite easily a 65 inch TV in the back there and everything. You could want
tons of space. It's not cramped at all. Very, very nicely designed
or soft plush material on the bottom here. We've got some nets here. We've got some
hooks where you can attach stuff to in the back. So you've got a lot of space back here.
And then of course, you can close it just like that. Very,
very simply. The lots of space in the back of the gv70 here in the rear of the Gv70,
you can see there's a lot of space. I'm about 178, I've got a ton of head
space here. This seat is in my driving position and I've got enough knee space.
We've got netting here, we've got dual climate control here with a little screen
where you can turn the knob off and down to just the temperature. These are also
got the comfort seats which are also Nappa leather. So we've also got the ability to
heat the seats as well. We also have sun blinds back here which are very,
very difficult to put up with one hand when you're trying to do it on camera.
I managed to do it that time, but that was actually my fifth attempt doing it.
So I cut five attempts out of there. But you can see there, there we've got this
beautiful metal design on the back here. We've got our extra speaker system on here,
which gives you more power in the back of this car, which is an option.
And then, you know, really nice materials, I have to say this again,
this has got fantastic materials all over the car with this brown leather, which I really,
really, really like, which matches the front of the car, which is burgundy. So the back here,
very, very luxurious. Interestingly enough, this
seat also has the ability to move it forwards and backwards using a button.
Now, this was on the G70 Saloon that I had, and I thought I was on there
because there was a lot of space in the back. That wasn't because it was a very,
very sporty looking saloon. But it turns out the genesis seem to have that on all
their models just for more space. And you can imagine it's a really nice,
considerate touch as well, leaving you lots of ability to move this forward inside the Gv70.
This interior is the most beautiful and most luxurious I've been in of all the Genesis models
so far. It really, really is quite something from this soft plastic on the top here too,
this beautiful leather here which is stitched to these fantastic ambient lights, which is
an option which go around the climate control and around the center console.
Again, beautiful soft leather here, soft leather on the seat. The seats are just
like the seats on the g70 12 way adjustable. You can adjust pretty much everything on them,
plus these go motion seats, which means they have massage features built into them as well.
So they will massage. You really drive along. We've got these slimline vents
here which are in sort of a matte silver, which looks fantastic.
I love Matte anything. Matte looks good in the car. Shiny, glossy does not look good
in a car. And Genesis have got that right here. There's lots of matte silver all over
the place. We've got a beautiful start stop button, which looks like it's got sort of a
engraved design. And then we've got this 14.5 inch wide screen display,
which is one of the biggest I've seen on any car and which runs Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.
I've also made a video comparing Android Auto and Apple CarPlay as well.
Technology wise in this car. Other than that 14.5 inch display, we also got a
12.3 inch 3D dials just like on the other Genesis cars that you can option in Europe
with the innovation pack. We've looked fantastic and I love the fact it displays data to you
in a three dimensional way, which lets you see what's going on when you're driving the car.
So I really think that's a fantastic feature. We've got a massive head up display,
which is full color, which also displays album art, which I love. And this car,
as I mentioned, has automatic lane changes like a Tesla Model three or Model S or any Tesla.
It will change lanes in certain positions at certain times. If you're on a motorway,
it'll pop up with a little icon, which is lane change assist available.
You can tap the indicator and the car will change. LANE And they also show it on the head
up display as well. Something which Tesla does not have. Let's talk about is climate control.
This is the most sophisticated version I've seen on any genesis so far. And it's
got a little dials here, which you can turn with a little screen in the middle,
which I love the ability to tactile feel where you are and see the temperature too.
We've got a screen here which is also touch sensitive, which allows you to
adjust the heated and cooled features of these fantastic seats. And of course,
we've got buttons at the side. We can press to turn it on and off or sync it. We've got physical
buttons underneath with quick shortcuts to map nav. It can make a favorite shortcut, which I've
set up for phone projection and got auto radio media, and that's up here in the center console.
We have a lot of controls. Very interesting. Again, really high quality matte silver.
We've got our gear selector which is like a crystalline was a bit like the lampshade
which glows with the ambient lighting, which looks beautiful, that's powerful and you just turn it to
go between drive neutral and park. You press the button in the middle and then we've got our touch
wheel control wheel, scroll wheel for the navigation system because this is quite far away.
You're not going to get to touch that with your driving so you can use this
to go between the settings on the touch screen without having to actually touch the touch screen.
And then we have all 360 camera buttons in here. This has got a Fantastic 360
camera system which lets you see all around the car and lets you look at
the car from an outside view as well and scroll around, which is super, super cool.
And then next to that we've got all drive modes and all terrain modes. So this car is a four wheel
drive, all wheel drive car, and if I tap on the terrain, then it will give me the choice between
snow, between mud or between sand. So it will tune the four wheel drive system
to work with that in mind, this car is also available with a limited slip differential.
If you have the petrol version and you want the extra bit of sportiness when
driving this cause a lot of other features. Obviously we've got a little space here for
you to put your phone wireless charging to USB type there. And then we've got two cupholders
here and then we've got a cubby here with another 12 volt charger and juice box.
You put your phone in, maybe it's changed. You won't get a phone in there maybe ten years ago,
but with some change in there and then you've got a nice deep space where you can put your
whatever you want there as well. So really, really, really nice interior, spacious, beautiful,
comfortable driving the Genesis GV80 This car, like I said, has got an amazing interior.
It's just so high quality. Everywhere you look when you're driving, this car just oozes class
and comfort. And without five year warranty and service plan, it means that I get to enjoy the
fact that I don't have to worry about anything going wrong and about my servicing and about being
without a car and having all the other things which hassles you get with normal car ownership.
So again, I wanted to mention that even though I'm driving the car now, I think that care plan
is a big, big part of what makes Genesis brand so appealing. As for this actual car, we've got
great road visibility. I'm really setting high up here. I can see clearly everything in front of me.
The right is really comfortable, even though we're on 21 inch wheels.
Yes. If I go around the corner a bit quick, there's a bit of leaning,
but it's a big car. And you expect that in an SUV. This is a sports car.
If we go between the modes between eco comfort and sport in eco,
you definitely feel like the car holding back a bit and trying to be as efficient as possible.
Remember, this particular car has got the two liter diesel engine, which has got 206 horsepower,
a 440 Newton meters of torque. So it's got a lot of torque lower down more than the petrol engine.
And with over 200 horsepower, it's not lacking for any power at all.
And it definitely when you put your foot down, you can definitely feel the acceleration.
You can feel very comfortable knowing that everywhere you drive and everywhere you go,
you've got that grunt at the lower end and enough to get up to motorway speeds very, very,
very comfortably. I can go over big potholes and I barely feel a thing, which is what you want in
an SUV. And then we've got the technology inside this car, this car, this automatic lane change.
Yes, I did say automatic lane change, just like a Tesla model S model three, whatever model of the
Tesla, it can do it. This car has it. I've never seen that in a car. That's not an EV before and
it's a really, really cool thing to have there, as well as a full color head up display which
lets you see Albemarle and all the information in a really, really clear and concise manner in front
of you, including when you're changing lanes using the automatic lane, changing features.
And then we've got all the other safety features, the adaptive cruise control,
the emergency braking, a fantastic 360 camera, which lets you see all around the car,
including moving your car around so you can see exactly where it is in relation
to the space. We've got beautiful mood lighting here, we've got fantastic visibility.
We've got all of that technology, we've got these 3D dials, which I really, really enjoy using it.
We put it into comfort mode. Now that will improve the ride even more,
and now it feels a bit more smoother in an eco mode. If we put it into sports mode
immediately. The car feels like it pouncing forward. I can feel that torque is more responsive
on the throttle pedal and the seats tighten at the sides here to keep me in my seats.
I mean, you know, that's really, really cool. It did that on the other Genesis cars as well.
I love the seats. On the Genesis cars, they are really, really comfortable and fantastic
to drive. I'm very, very impressed with them. So overall, this is a really comfortable car,
is super efficient in the diesel form. It can do around 40 miles per gallon.
It's about 29 in petrol form. But in diesel I've got around 500 miles on
a full tank combined around 300 miles on a petrol full tank and it's super comfortable,
super high quality, super safe and it looks so silly. What is my final verdict
on this edgy v 70? So the Comfort four out of five is very, very comfortable.
The only thing we should be more comfortable is if it was being driven by somebody else.
The driver assistance technology, five out of five for efficiency. This is a diesel. So
I give it three out of five for parking, five out of five, because it does everything itself,
including being able to remotely part from the key fob the value five out of five.
This is fantastic value starting at around £43,000 overall. This is a fantastic car. When
you include the Genesis care plan, I can't see any reason why if you're after an SUV,
you wouldn't want to buy one of these. I think Genesis are really throwing down the gantlet for
the German companies. We value technology and comfort and it's a fantastic package.
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