Genesis has stopped taking orders for its G70 and GV80 models and instead is only selling them from stock.
The decision comes in the wake of poor sales – since the models launched three years ago in the UK, it’s only managed to shift around 400 examples combined.
Parent company Hyundai axed the Genesis brand as a separate legal entity in the UK at the beginning of the year and brought the Hyundai and Genesis UK businesses together under common management.
A Genesis spokesperson told the PA news agency today: “The G70 and GV80 are still being made, but we’re not taking customer-specified orders for them any more – we’re selling from stock only.”
The spokesperson added that Genesis had no intention of stopping production of the two models.
A G70 can still be ordered in Shooting Brake guise, though. Priced from £42,955, it features a sloping rear roof line plus a more practical estate bodystyle. As standard, the model comes with a 2.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine delivering 242bhp plus 353Nm of torque, and has rear-wheel drive.
Although the G70 and GV80 haven’t sold well, by way of contrast the GV60 EV is one of Genesis’s best-selling models. It offers a 77.4kWh battery pack that gives a claimed electric range of up to 321 miles.
For the future, Genesis will continue to introduce new models, starting with its high-performance Magma series towards the end of 2025.
