The 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe's interior is nice enough, but you can get nicer for $30,000.
- The 2010 Hyundai Genesis Coupe's interior is nice enough, but you can get nicer for $30,000.
- The Genesis Coupe's center stack's symmetry looks nice, but it leaves some buttons too far away from the driver to be easily identified and used. Among them are menus, whose readouts show up only at the screen at the top of the dash, further complicating things.
- The Genesis Coupe's in-dash screen does not boast slick graphics.
- The Genesis Coupe's gauges aren't rendered illegible by retro styling efforts -- as in some other sporty coupes -- but they're not eye-catching.
- The Genesis Coupe's front seats offer lots of space and good bolstering to hold drivers in place in fast corners. But even on this model that's supposed to be designed for racetracks, the bolstering is only "good" and not "great."
- The Genesis Coupe's rear seat is wide but utterly lacking in head and leg space even by its class standards. Armrests carved out under the tiny windows would have been a nicer touch had they not been rock-hard plastic.
- The Genesis Coupe has a good view out of the front, an acceptable view out the back (bottom), and very little view over the shoulder (top).
- Looking at the exterior of the Genesis Coupe, you might be left with the impression that Hyundai was able to scoop out of a bit of extra visibility for drivers and rear passengers by making the window drop down below the high beltline. Look at it from the inside, and it's evident that the move was entirely a stylistic one.
- The Genesis Coupe's 10.0 cubic feet of trunk space is less even than some other sporty coupes, but it was enough to take Grandma to the airport when she packs fairly light. (The rear seat folds down for long items but offers only a tiny pass-through.) And while the rear wing spoiler may look like a convenient handle to pull the trunk open (bottom), you should grab under the trunklid to avoid risking pulling the spoiler right off.
- The Genesis Coupe's shifter shakes visibly at idle and doesn't go easily into reverse. Instead of offering a lockout where you push up or pull down on the shifter to get reverse only when you want it, Hyundai offers the "pull real hard" lockout. A chime blares at you whenever you get into reverse in case you got there by mistake, another drawback to this setup.
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