Looking to buy a genesis 2.0T
 

are there any owners out there that can tell me how the car is? Ive read lots of reviews but i would like to hear someone's first hand experience.
1) Hows the fuel mileage and how much does it cost to fill up?
2) Hows the fun to drive factor compared to other cars in its class?
3) I heard the clutch is its one fall back how do you find the clutch?
4) hows the maintenance?
5) were you able to bargain anything at the dealership?


and any other things I should be looking out for would be greatly appreciated thanks

Ask 1990TSI, he just went AutoX'ing. haha

Or just check the genesis vs civic si thread :haha:

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wat he said

Fuel mileage is great or shitty, depending on how fast you drive. I burned 1/8 of a tank doing 7 autox runs today, but averaged 8.8 L/100 on the drive home. over all I'd consider it very good.

Fun to drive? It's RWD and turbo, the track model has an LSD and brembos. If I need to say more, you may as well buy a civic SI.

Clutch is fine, no problems with it at all. transmission isn't great when cold, but that's probably an issue with my transmission, not all of them.

maintenence is too early to tell. The thing is gonna be easy to work on, things like the fuel pump being a 15 minute job from under the rear seat, oil changes easy as hell, filter being beside the drain and no plastic covering it.

as for a deal, I got the first one in BC so they weren't really moving on price at all. I've heard about some people in bc getting lowered finance rates (down from 2.6% that I paid)

I got mine from the northshore automall and dealt with trevor, I'd highly reccomend the dealership, and i think they have 5 or 6 on the lor right now, not sure on 2.0T 6 speeds though.

as for other problems, it's not a Camaro, there's only a few common issues and they should be fixed by now with the newer build dates.

Best advice would be to go try one out and see how you like it

I've driven my Friends, He has a white one with the Eibach springs, its quite fun to drive, his range is pretty good for gas,

as for filling up, it all depends if you want to get 94 or 91.. it would cost around 60 - 70 bucks.

One thing i dont like is the Drive by wire.


the North Shore location has about 3, they have a nice black one there right now.

Speaker system is prety good too

any pic of the car at autox???

Dealer gave me a $3500 discount before I even asked on the base 2.0T for financing
Too bad I'm broke :haha:

I have a tough time picking which model, I was thinking either the base which is 6k cheaper or the GT 2.0T which is $$$ and into wrx territory, although if the same discount is offered the GT or w/e it's called could be very competitive

I got a few of it staged, but havn't seen anyone elses pictures of is on the course. They should show up during the week.

Si is drive by wire too. lol

I remember reading you can use 87 octane in the genesis?
True or false?

You could, but it probably run like crap and not something you want to do all the time.

Genesis was meant to run on 87. Your are WRONG! Sorry had to.

Uh what? I never said it was meant to run on 87
I was asking if its possible?

Your are retarded! Sorry had to.

Haha its ok I think he was directing that comment to me.

I guess I stand corrected. Probably get more power with premium though.

im gonna guess FALSE since its a turbo

Ya its pretty rare to see any performance car use 87. But apparently Hyundai's ECU can handle 87 regularly heh.

Thats because it's got low standards, like a fat chick.

But that turbo is the size of an oreo cookie ----

Hrmm...I guess all Vancouver Genesis owners are using 91+ Octane? Cause in Vancouver fat chicks even have high standards!

Ive also driven a friends for a day, he has a 3.8L with just about all the options except the track package I believe so no brembos. I really liked the exterior of the car and the interior is very nice for its price too. One thing I noticed when driving it was that the transmission feels very notchy and wasn't smooth. Im not sure if its only his car or all of them are like that.

Have you driven another RWD car that's standard before? lol

Car runs on 87, that's all I put in it, unless I'm doing a rockstar up to kelowna or a race event it gets 94 for a full tank before the trip and a full tank for the trip, so the ECU has ample time to figure it out.

I can't feel a difference with the 94 over 87, not like the free wastegate mod, that's good for 10hp-12tq and it's noticable with 87.

If you guys wanna guess at stuff and throw grade 4 insults, there's a thread full of it called SI or Genesis.

This guy is looking for real world experience

Yes but what does that have to do with the tranny feeling notchy.

hey guys thanks for the comments just want to keep you updated I went and test drove a bunch of cars and we did end up getting the genesis. we were very happy with the ride and handling. got the premium package. they offered us a good price on a 2010 so we took it got a good discount was gonna get blue but we liked the nordschlief grey. we are picking it up tomorow i will take pics