Redesigned Genesis G80 for 2021
I confess that it took me a long time before I took Korean automobiles seriously. I spent most of a year in South Korea in the early 1960s while in the Army. In those days, the country was economically somewhat isolated and had done little more than patching up Korean War damage. This is a photo I took from Seoul's main railway station. The cars are Japanese-made, the busses are Korean bodies placed on army truck chassis' -- and I am not sure about the hopsung vans' basis. Early Korean imports to the USA were not impressive, but Kia and Hyundai rental cars I've driven in recent years have been satisfactory. (My personal cars over the last 15 years have been a Chrysler 300 and three Toyota RAV4s.) A large leap for the Korean industry, following the footsteps of Toyota's Lexus brand, is Hyundai's Genesis. The subject of this post is the redesigned for 2021 Genesis G80 luxury sedan. Gallery The 2017 Genesis G80. The Wikipedia entry above credits its des...