Day: January 25, 2014

  The devil, again, is in the details: The interior materials overall are exceptional but the car smells inexpensive. Crazy, perhaps, but when I get in the Genesis, I see Mercedes-Benz and smell 1987 Excel. It matters. Similarly, a couple of random touchpoints reveal cost-cutting. The panel holding the electric steering-wheel adjuster is made of …

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The powertrain here is nothing to write home about, but it’s perfectly adequate. The six-speed manual lets you eke out everything you can from the 1.6-liter four-banger. The gearshift does not give you any sense of mechanical greatness, but it works just fine. That pretty much sums up the Hyundai Accent. It’s nothing really to …

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