Genesis pulled the sheets off some “Magma” ideas simply over every week in the past. Whereas a supercar and souped-up EV SUV attracted loads of headlines, there was one other automotive there that maybe appealed to a extra unorthodox subsection of automotive fans. Primarily based on the Genesis G90 full-sizer got here the Genesis Wingback, a wagon that definitely has a minimum of the appears to be like to go toe-to-toe with BMW’s personal quick wagon, the M5 Touring.
Exploring the Genesis Wingback
The Genesis Wingback is fairly mild on particulars, however we’ll share what we will. Beneath, it’s kind of a Genesis G90, which is the model’s full-size luxurious sedan. Similarities to the M5 Touring embody all-wheel drive and an eight-speed computerized transmission. Nonetheless, this automotive possible makes round half the facility the M5 Touring does — a minimum of if it ships with engines customary to the G90. The scale, too, keep true to the G90 the automotive is predicated on. Meaning a 125-inch (3175 mm) wheelbase and 207-inch (5258 mm) total size. For reference, that’s round seven inches longer than the M5 Touring.
Round again, stacked quad exhaust ideas, widened wheel arches, an aggressive roof spoiler, and principally new bodywork usually make the Wingback unmistakable for its G90 brother. Across the facet, too, there’s no confusion. New vented fenders extra intently resemble what you’d discover on the Porsche Taycan than one thing sporting a Genesis badge. Cut up five-spoke wheels, too, seem like one thing you’d discover on a BMW product. Particularly, possibly the final era BMW M2 CS? Even in entrance the Wingback turns up the warmth, because of a sleeker look complemented by dive planes and spoilers.
Might the M5 Touring Rival Make it Into Manufacturing?
Despite the fact that Genesis hasn’t revealed strict manufacturing plans for the Wingback, it’s not completely out of the query. A number of sources declare Genesis isn’t fully against the concept. “We’re actually dedicated to those designs,” Manfred Harrer, head of the Genesis and Efficiency Tech Unit inside Hyundai Motor Group’s R&D division, instructed Motor Development in November. The identical Motor Development article credit “one Genesis supply” as “hinting out V8 growth.” The supply indicated that the V8 could be used particularly for high-performance autos, together with the top-end “Magma” autos that can finest personify efficiency for the model. That features, most radically, a mid-engined supercar.
Regardless, if you happen to do need one, we advocate letting Genesis know. In any case, a worst case state of affairs to us seems like a rerun of the M3 Touring disappointment; that being, the remainder of the world will get a brilliant cool wagon that the U.S. doesn’t as a result of the producer can’t make a powerful sufficient enterprise case for it. For now, anyway, the M5 Touring rivals are few and much between. Whether or not or not Genesis will be a part of the checklist quickly stays to be seen. However we have now to confess: we kinda like what we see.
