Genesis wins good design awards

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Earlier this month it was announced that the Genesis GV80 Concept SUV and G80 Sport mid-luxury sedan both won 2017 GOOD DESIGN® awards. Genesis joins other transportation, electronic, consumer and lifestyle product brands in receiving the annual awards from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design.

“We believe in the power of design to seduce and inspire the human spirit,” said Erwin Raphael, General Manager of Genesis Motor America. “We’re pleased that GOOD DESIGN® is a mainstay recognition going well into its seventh decade and couldn’t be happier to accept their acknowledgement of our dedication to design.”

The award, the oldest of its kind, was founded in 1950 by legendary designers, Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames, and by architecture historian and philanthropist, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. This year’s jury met in San Francisco and New York, selecting award-worthy products from 46 countries.

“The cars are a stunning achievement of high style, form, function and aesthetic,” states Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, Museum President, GOOD DESIGN®. Read more...

I really like what they did with the G80 Sport.

 

[Kia Stinger]

I really like what they did with the G80 Sport.

As do I! My wife drives the 2015 which is the same as the non-sport G80. We love it - and might upgrade to a G80 Sport next time around. We've been leasing it and will be doing a buy-out in a few months. The G80 and G90 are up there in my list of favorites right now. The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is my favorite but number two is the G90. It used to be the Lexus LS...