{"id":1236493,"date":"2025-03-03T12:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236493"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:37:34","slug":"the-2025-genesis-gv80-coupe-proves-to-be-a-real-crowd-pleaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236493","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 Genesis GV80 Coupe proves to be a real crowd-pleaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Watching Genesis&#8217; cars evolve and mature over the years has been interesting. Originally part of Hyundai&#8217;s lineup, Genesis stood up as a brand in its own right at the end of 2015. Those early Hyundai-badged Genesises (Geneses?) were impressive considering the H on the nose, the dealerships they were found in, and the price out the door. The soft bigotry of low expectations, perhaps.<\/p>\n<p>As Genesis has become its own thing, its vehicles no longer get that kind of benefit of the doubt. They have to stand against competitors from established luxury brands, the old-timers from Europe and now-middle-aged Japanese competitors. Recruiting the people associated with many of Bentley and Audi&#8217;s more memorable designs was a good move in that regard.<\/p>\n<p>This GV80 Coupe&#8217;s design proved to be a hit with neighbors and the general public\u2014few cars we&#8217;ve tested in the past couple of years have garnered as many compliments. The coupe was a relatively recent addition to the normal GV80 SUV, sacrificing a little volume at the back for a rakish ducktail rear end. All four corners are wrapped in what&#8217;s now Genesis&#8217; light signature, a pair of thin horizontal stripes with microlens arrays supplying the brightness at the front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/03\/the-2025-genesis-gv80-coupe-proves-to-be-a-real-crowd-pleaser\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/03\/the-2025-genesis-gv80-coupe-proves-to-be-a-real-crowd-pleaser\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Genesis&#8217; cars evolve and mature over the years has been interesting. Originally part of Hyundai&#8217;s lineup, Genesis stood up as a brand in its own right at the end of 2015. Those early Hyundai-badged Genesises (Geneses?) were impressive considering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1236493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1236493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1236493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1236493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1236493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}