Īnd how did we settle on 100,000 miles? Well, it’s a little more than four trips around the planet. The answer to that question was the objective of this extra-long long-term test, the longest we’ve ever tackled-40,000 miles more than the Lexus LS400. The question here, of course, is how Genesis quality and durability stack up versus the established players in the prestige-sedan game. That last category-quality-hasn’t always been a Hyundai strong suit, but the company has made big strides in this critical area, attaining parity, or at least near parity, in its various competitive arenas. Hyundai eschewed the massive expense associated with that gambit and stuck with its by-now familiar approach: bargain pricing versus the competition, lots of standard features, competitive quality.
With one key distinction: Toyota felt obliged to establish a new marketing division to be taken seriously as a purveyor of luxury. As we’ve observed in earlier reviews, it represents the Korean carmaker’s beachhead in the premium-sedan battlefield, reminiscent of the Lexus LS400’s 1989 arrival. Ordinarily we try to rack up the total long-term test mileage-a mere 40,000 miles-in a year.īut then, the Hyundai Genesis isn’t exactly ordinary.
It’s a lot of miles, that’s what it is, and it took us just over two years to reach our target.
After all, we live to drive, and what’s 100,000 miles-two and a half times our normal long-term evaluation’s distance-to a bunch like us? What we have here is analogous to the guy who one day decides he’ll take a couple weeks off and walk from Chicago to Fargo: It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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