Genesis X Concept previews new performance flagship

The Genesis X Concept has made its world debut today in Los Angeles, and the large, sleek, all-electric grand touring coupe previews a new performance flagship for Hyundai’s premium brand.

Bearing a striking resemblance to the upcoming G90 limousine, which won’t be sold in Australia, the Genesis X Concept is likely a production-ready version of the 2018 Essentia concept, which Genesis indicated in 2019 would enter showrooms in 2021.

It’s unclear how many of its novel design and tech features will make it to production, or if it will be sold here, but the two-door Genesis X concept emerges with a few noteworthy highlights apart from its lustrous Lencois Blue paint.

These include a low-slung exterior design highlighted by signature twin parallel lines, two-line headlights that cut through the wheel-arches, double-layer bumpers, a three-dimensional shield-shaped ‘Crest grille’ with ‘G-Matrix' pattern, cameras instead of side mirrors and a 'slide-to-open' charging door.

Inside the two-door coupe’s cabin is a driver-focused dashboard with ‘Free-Form’ display to control navigation and HVAC functions, a ‘Crystal Sphere’ electronic shift lever with integrated drive mode settings, ambient lighting and four-point racing harnesses for the bucket seats with exposed metal frames.

The X Concept’s interior surfaces “showcase the type of sustainable luxury that the Genesis brand pursues”, says the car-maker, which employed ‘upcycled’ materials such as a weave-patterned fabric made out of leftover pieces of leather from previous manufacturing processes for the seat belts, steering wheel and airbag cover.

“The Genesis X Concept can be described as the ultimate vision of Athletic Elegance, the inherent design language of Genesis,” said the company’s head of global design, SangYup Lee.

“The signature Two Lines theme and sustainable luxury will be blueprints for the futuristic designs and state-of-the-art technologies that Genesis seeks to adopt in its future models.”