Comments by "Stephen Hendricks" (@stephenhendricks103) on "" video.

  1. Impressive vehicle with a couple of exceptions. The first is the ridiculous handwriting recognition pad on the center console. I assume Lyn is right-handed and she finds it difficult to enter letters and numbers on the pad. I realize that "rightists" fail to recognize it but there is a significant number of people who both drive cars and write with their LEFT HANDS! By necessity we southpaws learn to exist in a right-handed world but that seldom extends to tracing numbers and letters with our right hand index fingers, especially when driving. And if it's bad for us, imagine how drivers in nations with a driver seat on the right side of the vehicle can manipulate the feature. I wouldn't want to be a driver in the UK or Australia in a GV80 (or a G80) that tries to use the touch pad. In fact, I wouldn't want to be on the road with others in those vehicles. Secondly, though I'm not sure the Genesis includes the ludicrous "Sounds of Nature" feature that's being added to other Hyundai and KIA vehicles, I strongly suspect it is. I keep an informal list of the most useless features on vehicles. At the top of that list for some time has the automated parallel parking system on my GTI. I've used it exactly once to demonstrate it to my daughter who had just received her license. (I'm of the opinion that if you cannot park a VW Golf you shouldn't be allowed to drive.) Topping the GTI, however, is the "Sounds of Nature" feature that enables a driver to pipe sounds like feet crunching on snow on a hot day, rain on a dry day, babbling diners at an outdoor cafe in the midst of a pandemic , and "calm sea waves" for landlocked drivers into the cabin. It's reminiscent of a sound machine that helps insomniacs to fall asleep with "relaxing" noise. Is this REALLY something we want? Do drivers stuck in gridlocked traffic actually need help falling asleep? In my experience there'are already far too many snoozing drivers on the road. OK. End of rant. I won't be rushing out to purchase either the G80 or GV80 but I'm intrigued by the fact that the base engine in each is the corporate 2.5L turbo engine found in the performance versions of the Sonata and the KIA K5 as well as in the forthcoming 2021 KIA Sorento. I'm usually skeptical about the durability of smaller displacement 4 cylinder turbo engines in large heavy vehicles (e.g. Subaru Ascent, Mazda CX-9) but the fact that Genesis and KIA are prepared to put the engine and associated drive train in both the Sorento and the GV80 with 10yr/100K warranties is definitely reassuring.
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