I thought i'd share:
2011 Kia Sorento:



i think Hyundai got their man inside

 

That's pretty nice, actually.

 

Also I hate the Forte for trying to be a Civic Type R.

 

wow.. there's a war in Iraq, the unemployment is over 10%, and millions of little kids are starving on thanksgiving.. and this is what you are mad about?

 

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and so on

 

My 1st impression is a genetically altered bullfrog. It's mouth is starting to open and the tongue will dart out to catch a Fiat or some other poor excuse of a car.

It looks like the engineers tried to copy their version of everybody else's design ideas and caused it to morph into this. Maybe reliable, but to me it doesn't show originality. But it's price puts it into an 'It will sell' to it's target customer category.

 

don't see whats the problem, its looks fine.

i have driven the previous generation Kia Sorento off-road before and its quite a solid and capable 4x4 and performed better than i expected.

However the old generation was a traditional body-on-frame construction, the new one in your pic is unibody like the RX.

 

Lex, a better comparison for the Genesis would be the Maybach. I can't tell the difference from the front.

But I have to agree with joedaddy1. It's not worth getting annoyed about it.

 

just the headlights look very similar

 

Gotta give them credit for doing well, especially when you look at the now subsidized US carmakers that couldn't design a good looking car even if someone gave them a winning design.

Hyundai's cars looks pretty good and they're moving up in quality. Makes sense to take design cues from some of the best luxury selling cars but make them more affordable.

In some ways, I'd almost say they're trying to shake things up the way Lexus did back in the day with Mercedes, BMW and Jag... or when Datsun/Honda shook things up too. Be interesting to see where they're at 5-8 years from now.

 

haha guess you havent seen that china car that look EXACTLY like a rx

 

Saw a Gensis Coupe on the road the other day and it looked great. I wouldn't mind owning one myself.

 

entire range of kia models are actually designed by Peter Schreyer, a former chief designer for Audi and VW.

not a fan of hyundai, but i think the genesis is a good looking car.

 

Everyone copies. I would edit the title but I'm on my phone

 

This is nothing that Lexus didnt do to Mercedes back in the day with the LS. The last gen LS look like an S class from back in the day. What goes around comes around. Now the Americans are copying the Japanese as well as the Koreans.