In this episode, we dive into the 2026 Genesis GV70, an impressive luxury compact SUV that has captured the attention of listeners. Richard shares his firsthand experience behind the wheel, highlighting its revamped features, including a 27-inch OLED display, turbocharged engine options, and impeccable interior design. Whether you’re a car enthusiast or in the market for a new vehicle, this episode provides a comprehensive review of what makes the GV70 stand out among its competitors, all while discussing its impressive value proposition. Listeners are also treated to a discussion about the variety of options and configurations available, ranging from
All right, that time of the week where we do our car reviews. Richard, what have you driven lately?
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Yeah, Dad, so I drove a couple of fun cars recently. Most, I guess, a little bit different car on the luxury side of things is a 2026 Genesis GV70, which you’ve actually had some listeners call about this car recently. And it’s their smaller, sleeker, I guess it’s the compact SUV, right? And so as far as what it is, it’s a luxury compact SUV. It’s got some subtle changes, a redesigned grille, some larger skids. skid plates, some different exhaust tips, those sorts of things. Outside of that, Dad, this is a car that’s kind of, it’s gotten really good reviews in years past. It’s got the biggest change, Dad, is a brand new 27-inch OLED display all across the interior of this car, which is phenomenal and fantastic. It ran phenomenally. And I will say this, the interior of this car, Dad, as with Genesis, and you and I have talked about this on other cars of theirs, It’s just beautiful. They’ve just done a really good job at putting these vehicles together. It feels nice. I actually went to a Bronco game with it because it was funny. It actually had blue seats and orange seat belts. So here in Denver, it was like the perfectly themed Broncos car, to be honest with you, that I didn’t have to – you wouldn’t have to change anything. So if you were looking for a Broncos-styled car, you could actually go out and find this. So it’s got a base 300-horsepower turbocharged inline-four, or it’s got an upgraded, which is the one that we drove – Twin-turbo V6 that puts out about 375 horsepower, and I will say, Dad, this car runs really, really well, even at our altitude. The price of the vehicle, as we said, I don’t have the sticker in front of me, but I believe it was about $72,000 is where it sat, and some of your listeners are going to say, well, wow, Richard, for a Compact SUVs. Competitors in the similarly equipped vehicles, size, everything else, are going to be about $10,000 more, right? And so this is actually a really good value for this compact luxury market. And again, you’ve driven this vehicle. I know you actually spoke about it recently. It’s one of our more favorite compact luxury SUVs.
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Yeah. In fact, as I told a listener that called in, oh, I know it was a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday where we actually had a listener asking about that particular car. Is that a car that I would own and so on and so forth? And the answer was absolutely. If you look at the value that that car brings and what it competes against at the end of the day, would I own it? I absolutely would own that car.
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It was great, Dad. It was introduced back in 2022. It’s got some, again, beautiful luxury enhancements as far as interior lighting and just certain safety features that way.
SPEAKER 01 :
And really quick, Richard, it’s a good-looking car to boot.
SPEAKER 02 :
I was going to say that. It’s got that kind of aggressive sloped roof line. It looks really beautiful. If you’ve seen this car on the road, you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about.
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That pillar slopes back. The glass is sloped. It’s got nice body lines down the side. They’ve done a really nice job on the way this car looks.
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No, they have absolutely, Dad. And one nice thing, again, I did mention the top of the line because, folks, a lot of times we do get the top of the line of these because they want to show us every single thing that’s available. Dad, you can get, again, the base model of this with that four-cylinder engine that I was telling you about that’s still turbocharged for just over $51,000. Correct. So you may not want to go for the… you know very cream of the crop which is totally fine this has got a really nice broad uh swath of choices and options for you depending on what you want to choose on it i mean again you can get a panoramic sunroof heated and ventilated seats 360 degree parking system all of the different things that but overall i would just tell that tell your listeners like you mentioned earlier get out and test drive this vehicle um see if you like it see the different engine options the different trim levels whatever it might be because what we like You may not like him, vice versa. And when you do that, again, local Genesis dealer, when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
SPEAKER 01 :
This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
