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GENESIS COUPE EARNS POPULAR MECHANICS 2010 AUTOMOTIVE
GENESIS
COUPE EARNS POPULAR
MECHANICS 2010
AUTOMOTIVE
EXCELLENCE
AWARD
Popular
Mechanics Automotive
Experts Recognize Hyundai’s Genesis Coupe as an
Affordable
“Fun to Drive” Sports Coupe
FOUNTAIN
VALLEY, Calif.,
November
9, 2009 –
Popular
Mechanics honored
the all-new
Hyundai
Genesis Coupe with a 2010 Automotive Excellence Award in the “Fun
to Drive”
category.
Genesis Coupe outperforms the competition with its dynamic
rear-wheel-drive
handling
aimed at true sports enthusiasts. This is the second time Hyundai has
earned a Popular
Mechanics
Automotive
Excellence Award; the 2006 Sonata received the honor for its
excellence
in
safety.
“Hyundai
has transformed its image – and its cars – in an
amazingly short time,” said
Ben
Stewart, Popular
Mechanics automotive
editor. “The Genesis Coupe is more than just a
sleek,
fun-to-drive sports coupe. It’s proof that Hyundai has
developed world-class design,
engineering
and car-building expertise.”
The
annual Automotive Excellence Awards recognize the top 10 cars, trucks
and
technologies
that are most significant each year. In 2009, Popular
Mechanics editors
saw a trend
in
the return and refresh of American icons in addition to a fuel
efficiency focus with a mix of
new
hybrids and compact cars.
Genesis
Coupe is Hyundai’s most dynamic performance car ever and uses
the same
flexible
rear-wheel drive architecture as the 2009 North American Car of the
Year Genesis sedan
to
appeal to true driving enthusiasts. The Genesis Coupe offers a
2.0-liter intercooled fourcylinder
turbocharged
engine producing 210 horsepower, and a 3.8-liter V6 Track model with
306
horsepower and massive Brembo brakes. In fact, when tested
side-by-side against an Infiniti
G37,
“the Hyundai Genesis Coupe nearly matched the Infiniti in every
performance measure,
and
did so for $15,000 less,” according to Stewart.
“It’s
an honor for Hyundai to once again receive this prestigious award,
and we are even
more
thrilled that the Genesis Coupe took the crown in the ‘fun-to-drive’
category,” said Derek
Joyce,
Genesis Coupe product manager, Hyundai Motor America. “With an
aggressive, wedgelike
design,
rear-wheel-drive architecture and 5-link independent rear suspension,
the Genesis
Coupe
was truly built with the driving enthusiast in mind.”
Each
year, to determine the winners of the Popular
Mechanics Automotive
Excellence
Awards,
editors drive more than 100 of the newest cars, trucks and
sport-utility vehicles,
amassing
well over 100,000 miles in the process. Through their experiences on
extended test
drives
around the world, instrumented comparison tests and longer-term
evaluations, the auto
team
nominates a list of vehicles in each category. Those selections are
put to a vote and the top
recipients
in each category win an Automotive Excellence Award. The auto team is
led by
Automotive
Editor Ben Stewart, working with Senior Automotive Editor Mike Allen,
Detroit
Editor
Larry Webster and Editor-in-Chief James Meigs.
POPULAR
MECHANICS
Popular
Mechanics (http://www.popularmechanics.com)
is a magazine that
helps
readers master the modern world. In addition to providing hands-on
coverage of personal
technology,
cars and home improvement, Popular
Mechanics reports
in depth on the science and
technology
behind major issues -- including such stories as disaster planning,
hydrogen fuel and
other
energy alternatives, military expenditures, and digital privacy.
Popular
Mechanics is
published
by Hearst Magazines, a unit of Hearst Corporation
(http://www.hearst.com)
and one of
the
world's largest publishers of monthly magazines.
HYUNDAI
MOTOR AMERICA
Hyundai
Motor America, headquartered in Fountain Valley, Calif., is a
subsidiary of
Hyundai
Motor Co. of Korea. Hyundai vehicles are distributed throughout the
United States by
Hyundai
Motor America and are sold and serviced through more than 790
dealerships
nationwide.
Hyundai’s
all-new flagship, the Genesis sedan, earned the most top-car honors
in 2009
beginning
with the 2009 North American Car of the Year – the first time a
Korean brand hasever achieved the honor. At last count, Genesis
tallied more than 20 top honors from the most prominent
media outlets and automotive organizations in North America
including, J.D. Power
and
Associates, Motor Trend,
AutoPacific, Cars.com and other leading consumer publications.
All
Hyundai vehicles sold in the U.S. are covered by The Hyundai
Advantage, America’s
Best
Warranty. In addition, Hyundai Assurance is now offered on all new
vehicles leased or
purchased
from a certified Hyundai dealer. The program is available to any
consumer, regardless
of
age, health, employment record or financed amount of the vehicle. The
program is
Complimentary
for the first 12 months.
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