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"Hyundai offers as complete a lineup here as any carmaker, with six separate actual cars (not SUVs or crossovers), from the Accent to the Equus. The company covers the first third of the market in a way more reminiscent of a late-1950s carmaker than a contemporary one. While they offer a car-for-every-budget experience, it means the line between a $27,000 Sonata 2.0T and a $32,000 Azera can be blurry. It&amp;#039;s even more of an issue at the $50,000-plus Genesis/Equus level, where they also have to sell Korean luxury against Japan and Germany. There&amp;#039;s little debate that the current generation Genesis had Mercedes in mind, so much so that without a badge, you may briefly think you were looking at an E-Class. But for 2015, a brand new platform has a much more ambitious car in the styling studio during development: the Aston Martin Rapide.  Aston&amp;#039;s look has been hugely influential, first percolating over to their former siblings at Ford, who really ran with it on the Taurus and Fusion, then to Chrysler, where you&amp;#039;ll see it on new models like the new 200, and now to Hyundai. The 2015 Genesis even sports an Aston/Bentley-style &amp;#039;Flying G&amp;#039; logo, although it&amp;#039;s not clear what, exactly, to make of that. While details are still emerging, Hyundai tells us that an all-new platform sits within an almost identical 196.5-inch overall length, with three additional inches of wheelbase. Engines are a revised carryover direct injection 3.8-liter V6 with 311 hp (down 22 from 2014) and 293 lb-ft of torque(up 2) and the 5.0 V8 with 420 hp (down 9) and 383 lb-ft (up 7). Presumably, the drop in horsepower reflects retuning for smoothness, fuel economy, and tractability. The eight-speed automatic carries over, as well, and we have a list of features and options seven pages long, so it&amp;#039;ll be loaded with content, including a &amp;quot;Glasswear&amp;quot; Google Glass app for their Blue Link in-car OS. The extra wheelbase almost entirely goes into a long deck look to emphasize the rear-wheel drive layout, with shorter overhangs.  There&amp;#039;s no denying that no matter what&amp;#039;s going on under the skin, the new car is dramatically styled and upscale. Chrysler once pulled off the Bentley look with the 300, so there&amp;#039;s certainly a precedent. But you still have to wonder when the car will become a leader rather than a follower. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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