Comments by "" (@williamlong2682) on "Daily Motor"
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This is a really tricky one for me, and what I think is so frustrating about it is that it’s a car I really WANT to like because I can see the potential of what it could be. Still love the exterior so much that it’s one of the very very very few cars I’d buy on looks alone, which I hardly ever say. And honestly, I don’t take as much offense to that interior as some people do. Sure, a lot hasn’t changed since the Q50 came out in, what, 2015? But I’m just still glad it has buttons and knobs to complement the screens. And if they really wanted, they could just stitch those two screens together into one and rework the software to modernize it a bit and keep all the buttons around it. I just wish it had a little more personality from a driving standpoint. I appreciate how it’s kinda loose and not as clinical and perfectly sharp as the Germans in this segment, but to dial in the handling and the feedback of the inputs just a little bit more I think would go a long way, though sadly we’ll never get to see what that could do to this car. Wish Infiniti had the courage to lean into being the different, off-the-beaten-path option in this segment and care less about “what the market wants.” Should have left that to BMW and Audi made this the true successor to the old G’s. I’ll miss it, personally, tbh.
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Green on green on green! You guys might as well call this Will Long spec🤤
A personal anecdote as to how I’ve come to look at Genesis models. One of the earliest and most formative moments of my budding car enthusiasm came when I was 12-13ish years old and I watched Alex on Autos review the previous gen Hyundai Genesis (before it became the Genesis G80) and the Kia K900. Alex had (and still does, but not as strongly now imo) such a value-oriented view of cars, EVEN IN segments like the midsize luxury segment, and he came away so impressed first and foremost by the value proposition and case for themselves that those cars offered in the market. I specifically remember him ending the Hyundai Genesis review by saying that “I know that brand is a big deal in the luxury segment, but it just isn’t for me, and this would be my personal choice in this segment because of the features, functions, looks, etc. etc. of the car” and ending the K900 review with the question of “Why are you buying a luxury car? Because it’s $90,000 and has a Lexus badge? Or because of the way it coddles you and your passengers, the way it handles and the way it accelerates?” He genuinely encouraged shoppers to ask themselves how much the brand was worth to them. He was probably one of the very, very, very, very, very few people offered that kind perspective on those vehicles, and little did 12 year old me know how much of anything about the the “average luxury car buyer’s” shopping habits, but it made so much pure logical sense to me to judge the merits and qualities of the car and not the badge. And even if he was the only person on the entire planet to review those cars the way he did, I will be eternally grateful for those videos for teaching me to simply not care about the brand and to just judge the car.
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Still love these Stinger GT’s even a few years later. If I wanted a fast, fun, practical, spacious 4-door for ~$50k, I’d go straight for one of these or a Genesis G70. Admittedly there have been some strong new entries into this segment recently (TLX, Giulia, M440i, Model 3, etc), but this/G70 would still be my top choice. And the fact that is is off the beaten path and an insider’s choice in this segment is worth more to me than any Audi, BMW or Mercedes logo.
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I would agree that this trim of the Yukon simply doesn’t make sense and most would be just fine with just the regular Denali. If I was going to offer one piece of constructive feedback on this review, though, it would be that your analysis particularly in terms of pricing/value came across, at least to me, as very vibes-based, and though I understand that that may be the way the “average shopper” experiences a vehicle like this, I personally would have appreciated a few more specific, concrete reasons that this does not strike you as a luxury product coming from an auto industry expert (again, I don’t disagree in the overall assessment, but point specifically to more of the shortcomings of the vehicle itself that, to you, don’t measure up to luxury alternatives).
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