GOODWOOD, England — The station wagon mannequin of the Genesis G70 will outsell the sedan in Europe, talked about Genesis’s Europe boss Dominique Boesch.
The G70 Capturing Brake has been designed for Europe solely by the Hyundai-owned mannequin. It made its public debut on the UK’s Goodwood Pageant of Velocity on Thursday.
“The physique type is the correct demonstration of how devoted we’re to Europe,” Boesch suggested Automotive Info Europe on the event.
He predicted the wagon would outsell the G70 sedan, and the GV70 SUV can be the top-seller complete when the three fashions arrive later this yr. “It is going to replicate the development of the market in Europe,” Boesch talked about.
The G70 fluctuate might be a part of the G80 large sedan and GV80 large SUV which have already gone on sale in Genesis’s three European launch markets of the UK, Germany and Switzerland.
The G70 will most likely be pitched in direction of the BMW 3 Assortment, Audi A4 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class throughout the extraordinarily aggressive premium midsize part. Prices will most likely be “aggressive,” Boesch talked about with out giving particulars.
The automotive will most likely be supplied with a 2.0-liter turbocharged gasoline engine and a 2.2-liter diesel unit. A 3.3-liter turbocharged engine equipped throughout the sedan throughout the U.S. is “beneath dialogue” Boesch talked about. No hybrid or plug-in hybrid mannequin will most likely be equipped, proscribing the automotive’s attraction notably in markets the place low-CO2 variations attraction to tax benefits.
No technical particulars regarding the cars have been revealed.
The G70 was first confirmed as a sedan in 2017 in Korea and refreshed in 2020 with the current design language, which repeats a parallel line motif in design particulars such as a result of the headlights.
Genesis will shift straight to electrical vitality, bypassing plug-in hybrids, Boesch talked about. The mannequin’s first full-electric automotive in Europe will most likely be a battery-powered G80 arriving early subsequent yr.
The mannequin will launch two further electrical cars sooner than July subsequent yr, thought of certainly one of which can most likely be based on Hyundai’s E-GMP electrical platform that underpins the Ioniq 5 electrical crossover.
Genesis has not however talked about which physique varieties the two new EVs might have.