Genesis Performance Cars Won't Wear 'N' Badge
When Genesis reveals its new performance cars, they won’t be wearing the ‘N’ badge that will be found on Hyundai’s sports machines.
Hyundai’s new ‘N’ division has been tasked with turning up the heat on both Hyundai and Genesis vehicles, but while Hyundai’s cars will wear the N badge, Genesis will have a different name for its lineup of corner carvers.
The head of N Division, Albert Biermann, still isn’t sure what Genesis is going to call its performance brand, though it won’t simply be N.
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“We’re still setting up the whole Genesis brand, and that has an impact on how we create the high-performance lineup, the order in which things happen,” Biermann told Car and Driver. “We’re in the discussion right now, but I couldn’t tell you which model will be the first with a high-performance application yet. It’s still too early.”
The first Genesis performance model is rumored to be a BMW M4 fighter that will use a turbocharged six-cylinder engine.
[Source: Car and Driver]
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I call b/s on them not telling which car would be released first. A roadmap was leaked recently on thekoreancarblog dot com which listed out their plan for vehicle releases: 2015 G90 Large Luxury Sedan 2017 G80 Mid Luxury Sedan & G70 Near Luxury Sedan 2018 Mid Luxury SUV 2020 Near Luxury SUV & Near Luxury Sport Coupe