Item: Genesis G70 Shooting Brake
Rating: 2
Author: What Car? Team

The sole diesel engine available offers all the performance you need. However, it's impossible to recommend, because it sounds horribly coarse and sends unpleasant vibrations into the car. To make matters worse, it's not even especially efficient.

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Estate

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Even the entry-level G70 trim gives you lots of standard equipment, including auto-dipping LED headlights, 17in alloy wheels, front and rear parking sensors and a rear-view camera. Meanwhile, inside it provides an electrically adjustable driver's seat, adjustable lumbar support, dual-zone climate control, and a 12.3in touchscreen infotainment system with a DAB radio, built-in sat nav and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone mirroring.

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Introduction

Performance & drive

Interior

Passenger & boot space

Costs & verdict

A Genesis G70 Shooting Brake&nbsp;in Premium Line trim undercuts all its main rivals on price, except for&nbsp;entry-level petrol versions of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/bmw/3-series/estate/review/n108">BMW 3 Series Touring</a> and <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/volvo/v60/estate/review/n17266">Volvo V60</a>. Meanwhile, nothing comparable is cheaper&nbsp;if you’re after a diesel.&nbsp;

Sadly, the G70 doesn’t fare well when it comes to economy and emissions. All of its official WLTP figures are significantly worse than those of rival&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/best/best-estate-cars-2021/n16998">estate cars</a>, and&nbsp;there isn’t a <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/check-your-company-car-tax-rate/n1255">benefit-in-kind&nbsp;(BIK)&nbsp;tax</a> friendly plug-in hybrid option to appeal to <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/class/company-cars">company car drivers</a>, either.

On a brighter note, the G70 Shooting Brake comes with lots of standard equipment for the money, with even the entry-level trim getting 17in alloy wheels, automatically dipping LED headlights and dual-zone climate control.

We’d therefore recommend sticking with this. However, if you do want to upgrade, the Luxury Line trim level adds the Convenience Pack with heated front seats and steering wheel, 18in alloy wheels, and access to the more powerful petrol engine.

As for top-tier&nbsp;Sport Line trim, this brings heated,&nbsp;Nappa leather sports seats, 19in alloy wheels and performance Brembo brakes.&nbsp;

We don't have any reliability data for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/make/genesis">Genesis</a>&nbsp;but every car is backed up by a five-year&nbsp;unlimited mileage warranty. What's more, parent company Hyundai did very well in the 2021&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/2021-what-car-reliability-survey-brands/n23418">What Car? Reliability Survey</a>, which&nbsp;bodes well for its premium car division.

The G70 was awarded five stars out of five for safety by the independent experts at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/the-safest-cars-on-sale-today/n19724">Euro NCAP</a>, and all versions come with&nbsp;lane-keeping assistance and&nbsp;automatic emergency braking&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/what-is-aeb-and-how-does-it-work/n3283">(AEB)</a>&nbsp;with pedestrian detection.

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The&nbsp;2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine in the&nbsp;Genesis G70 Shooting Brake produces 194bhp or 241bhp, or there's a&nbsp;197bhp 2.2-litre diesel.&nbsp;Each has four cylinders and feeds its&nbsp;power to the back wheels via&nbsp;an eight-speed automatic gearbox. However, unlike with the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/bmw/3-series/estate/review/n108">BMW 3 Series Touring</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/mercedes-benz/c-class/estate/review/n17346">Mercedes C-Class Estate</a>, there's no&nbsp;hybrid offering.

We tried the more powerful of the two petrols, and it's impressively responsive&nbsp;even from low revs. It can get you up to motorways speeds without becoming overly stressed, and offers&nbsp;a good amount of shove&nbsp;for overtaking.&nbsp;

It's helped by the fact that its&nbsp;automatic gearbox shifts pretty&nbsp;smoothly most of the time and doesn't dither when pulling out of junctions in the way that the&nbsp;auto&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/audi/a4/estate/review/n101">Audi A4 Avant</a>&nbsp;can. However, the G70's&nbsp;does have a habit of changing down unnecessarily when you're driving through town&nbsp;rather than relying on the engine's torque.

That's a problem&nbsp;in the diesel as well, although it too offers all the performance you need. Unfortunately, the engine sounds horribly coarse and sends unpleasant vibrations into the car. Indeed, it&nbsp;feels closer to diesels of the early Noughties than the refined four-cylinder units used today by the likes of Audi and&nbsp;BMW.

More positively, wind noise is well contained, even at motorway speeds, but you hear quite a lot of road noise.

We&nbsp;drove the G70&nbsp;with the adaptive suspension you get with the Luxury Line and Sport Line trim levels, and it's pretty good at isolating you from scruffy road surfaces when it's in the Comfort setting. However, the car can still crash and&nbsp;shudder&nbsp;over larger bumps and potholes.

Switching to Sport mode firms up the suspension slightly to keep body lean well controlled in bends. It also&nbsp;adds greater heft to steering, but this remains disappointingly vague, so the G70 is nowhere near as fun as a 3 Series Touring on winding roads.

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2.0T (194bhp)

OUR PICK

The more powerful of the two petrol engines is claimed to get the G70 from 0-62mph in a little over six seconds, and we can full believe it's capable of that. It feels responsive from low revs, has plenty of muscle in reserve for overtaking and makes it easy to get up to motorway speeds. It's not an especially frugal choice, though, averaging 34.0mpg in official tests.

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If the Genesis G70 Shooting Brake&nbsp;has stopped you in your tracks with its&nbsp;looks, you might be half way to&nbsp;buying one already.

So&nbsp;now it's caught your eye,&nbsp;what exactly is the G70 Shooting Brake, and is it any good? Well, first up, <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/make/genesis">Genesis</a>&nbsp;is Hyundai's luxury arm, and it aims to compete with the big (mainly German) premium brands we all know well.

With the G70 Shooting Brake, it's taken the <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/genesis/g70/saloon/review/n23541">Genesis G70</a> executive saloon and added a hatchback-style extension on the rear end. That gives it a more practical <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/best/best-estate-cars-2021/n16998">estate car</a> silhouette to go with the plush interior and three engine options (two petrols, one diesel).

The G70 Shooting Brake isn’t just about having a bit more room for your shopping or luggage, though – it's also designed to have driving manners to match its looks.&nbsp;With that in mind, Genesis has given Sport Line models beefier brakes for buyers keen on more spirited driving.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;combination of&nbsp;extra luggage space, a luxury feel and a bit of&nbsp;performance isn't unique, of course. The Genesis G70 Shooting Brake will be competing&nbsp;with the <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/audi/a4/estate/review/n101">Audi A4 Avant</a>, <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/bmw/3-series/estate/review/n108">BMW 3 Series Touring</a>, <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/mercedes-benz/c-class/estate/review/n17346">Mercedes C-Class Estate</a> and <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/volvo/v60/estate/review/n17266">Volvo V60</a>.

The G70 Shooting Brake is set apart from the front-wheel-drive V60 and less powerful versions of the A4 Avant by its sporty rear-wheel drive layout&nbsp;(which the 3 Series Touring and C-Class Estate have&nbsp;too). Unlike more potent A4&nbsp;and&nbsp;3 Series variants, the G70 isn't available with four-wheel drive in the UK.

So, has Genesis done enough to make this a worthy contender to those impressive <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/category/estate">estate car</a> rivals? That's what we'll reveal over the next few pages of this review. We’ll tell you what it’s like to drive, how good the interior quality is, how much equipment you&nbsp;get,&nbsp;how big the boot is and lots more.&nbsp;

When you know which make and model of car you want to buy, we can help you find it for the lowest price available if you search the deals on our free <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/new-car-deals">What Car? New Car Buying service</a>.

The Genesis G70 Shooting Brake makes it easy to find&nbsp;a good driving position&nbsp;because even the entry-level Premium Line trim gives you an electrically adjustable&nbsp;seat.

Unlike in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/bmw/3-series/estate/review/n108">BMW 3 Series Touring</a>, you get lumbar adjustment to help you stay comfortable on a long drive. However, you might want to consider adding the&nbsp;Comfort Seat Pack, which&nbsp;lets you adjust the&nbsp;side bolsters, thigh support and steering wheel electrically, and save your preferred settings.

You sit quite low down, yet still get a great view out at junctions, thanks to slim windscreen&nbsp;pillars. Over-the-shoulder visibility isn't as good as it is in the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/audi/a4/estate/review/n101">Audi A4 Avant</a>&nbsp;though, so you'll be grateful&nbsp;that&nbsp;blind-spot monitoring, front and rear parking sensors and a rear-view camera are standard on all versions. The Innovation Pack adds a&nbsp;camera display in the driver’s instrument cluster, which shows what’s coming down your flank when you indicate.

Those instruments are&nbsp;a combination of analogue dials&nbsp;and an 8.0in screen unless you add the&nbsp;Innovation Pack, in which case you get fully digital instruments&nbsp;with a 3D effect to layer information. Perhaps most usefully of all, the&nbsp;pack includes&nbsp;a head-up display that projects your speed, sat-nav directions and other information on to the windscreen&nbsp;so you don't have to take your eyes off the road.

Elsewhere, the dashboard is quite logically laid out and has many physical controls, unlike the A4 and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/mercedes-benz/c-class/estate/review/n17346">Mercedes C-Class Estate</a>, which put almost everything on screens.&nbsp;That might&nbsp;make the G70&nbsp;look a bit old-fashioned inside, but it also means that it's far less distracting to adjust the climate control.

That’s not to say that the G70 lacks tech – you still get a 10.25in landscape-oriented&nbsp;touchscreen with built-in sat-nav, Bluetooth, and <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/advice/owning/what-is-apple-carplay/n1193">Apple CarPlay</a> and <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/advice/owning/what-is-android-auto/n1194">Android Auto</a> smartphone mirroring. The screen isn't as easy to operate on the move as the iDrive system in the 3 Series because it has quite small icons and does without a separate control dial, although mercifully you get some proper shortcut buttons for swapping between menus.

The quality of the materials in the G70 is&nbsp;good, and everything feels solidly put together, although the A4 still sets the standard in the executive car class.&nbsp;One word of caution: all the G70s we’ve driven have had the pricey Nappa option that includes fine-grain leather and a classy suede headliner;&nbsp;cars without it might not feel as plush.

Well equipped, but&nbsp;the majority of rivals are more practical, quieter, better to drive and cheaper to run

Up front, the Genesis G70 Shooting Brake has plenty of head and leg room, even for those well over six feet tall. And while the&nbsp;door bins only really give you enough space for a bottle of water, there's a useful cubby in front of the gear-selector, a large storage bin beneath the front centre armrest and a pair of cupholders.

Instead, it's in the rear that the G70 disappoints, because&nbsp;head and leg room are distinctly tight, and anyone sitting in the middle will struggle to find a spot for their feet.

The rear seats do have a handy 40/20/40 split, as per the <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/audi/a4/estate/review/n101">Audi A4 Avant</a>, <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/bmw/3-series/estate/review/n108">BMW 3 Series Touring</a> and <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/mercedes-benz/c-class/estate/review/n17346">Mercedes C-Class Estate</a> (but not the <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/volvo/v60/estate/review/n17266">Volvo V60</a>). Sadly, you’ll need to fold them often if you regularly carry longer items, such as a child’s pushchair or a set of golf clubs; the boot width is fine, but the load area isn’t as long or tall as in the <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/best/best-estate-cars-2021/n16998">estate car</a> rivals.

It also has the narrowest opening, and <a href="https://www.whatcar.com/make/genesis">Genesis</a> has fitted an odd two-piece parcel shelf that makes loading quite awkward. The tailgate opens electrically, just like those of the G70 Shooting Brake’s main competitors.

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Building on the entry-level trim, Luxury Line adds leather upholstery, 18in alloy wheels, a heated steering wheel and a powered tailgate. However, while these are nice things to have, we wouldn't bother spending the extra.

Luxury Line

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Top-tier Sport Line models give you all of the equipment found in Luxury Line models, plus heated sports seats, Nappa leather upholstery, 19in alloy wheels and more powerful Brembo brakes. Due to the cost, however, we find this trim hard to recommend.

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If you’re after an executive estate that comes with lots of toys and stands out from the crowd, the Genesis G70 Shooting Brake delivers. However, in most other respects it's well off the pace, with the majority of rivals more practical, quieter, better to drive and cheaper to run, whether you're a private buyer or a company car driver.

<h2>What we're looking for:</h2><ul><li>Huge boot and excellent practicality</li> <li>Plenty of interior space so you can carry passengers as well as luggage </li> <li>Strong engines to pull a heavily laden car</li> <li>Comfortable ride, especially on the motorway</li> <li>Low running costs for company car drivers</li></ul>

If you’re after bags of space but you don’t want to commit to the van-like dimensions and styling of an MPV, there are some great estate cars on offer that should do the job.

Tricks to look out for include an electric tailgate&nbsp;that opens automatically when you wave your foot under the rear bumper; this is&nbsp;particularly handy if you’re trying to load in a heavy or&nbsp;bulky item. You should also look for handles in the side of the boot itself that can drop down the rear seats; these are much more convenient than having to walk around the side of the car to do it.

There are some terrific estates at most price ranges. The humble Skoda Fabia Estate offers cavernous space for not much cash at all, for example.

Further up the price range, another of our perennial favourites is the Skoda Superb Estate;&nbsp;it’s great to drive and as practical as most people should ever need. Meanwhile, for serious mile-munching ability and a premium, well-finished interior, it’s hard to look beyond the BMW 5 Series Touring.

<h2>What we're looking for:</h2><ul><li>Effortless long-distance capability</li> <li>Strong standard specification</li> <li>Low running costs</li> <li>Comfortable driving position</li> <li>Comprehensive yet easy-to-use infotainment system</li></ul>

Executive cars are often the choice of company car drivers, so factors such as CO2 emissions (which govern your monthly tax bill) are just as important as cruising refinement for those long motorway journeys, a plush cabin and (whisper it) the image of the badge on the bonnet.

The good news is that there are options for all budgets and tastes. If rear space is crucial and you’re willing to put up with a less-than-premium badge, the Skoda Superb is tough to beat, while if you want a premium badge on the bonnet then the BMW 3 Series is consistently one of our favourites in this class.

And don't think you're limited to just petrol or diesel-powered choices in this class,&nbsp;because at the top end the Tesla Model 3 is well worth considering for its long range and engaging driving style.

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Read the definitive Genesis G70 Shooting Brake 2022 review from the expert What Car? team. Check specs, prices, performance and compare with similar cars.

If the Genesis G70 Shooting Brake has stopped you in your tracks with its looks, you might be half way to buying one already.,So now it's caught your eye, what exactly is the G70 Shooting Brake, and is it any good? Well, first up, Genesis is Hyundai's luxury arm, and it aims to compete with the big (mainly German) premium brands we all know well.,With the G70 Shooting Brake, it's taken the Genesis G70 executive saloon and added a hatchback-style extension on the rear end. That gives it a more practical estate car silhouette to go with the plush interior and three engine options (two petrols, one diesel).The G70 Shooting Brake isn’t just about having a bit more room for your shopping or luggage, though – it's also designed to have driving manners to match its looks. With that in mind, Genesis has given Sport Line models beefier brakes for buyers keen on more spirited driving. The combination of extra luggage space, a luxury feel and a bit of performance isn't unique, of course. The Genesis G70 Shooting Brake will be competing with the Audi A4 Avant, BMW 3 Series Touring, Mercedes C-Class Estate and Volvo V60.,The G70 Shooting Brake is set apart from the front-wheel-drive V60 and less powerful versions of the A4 Avant by its sporty rear-wheel drive layout (which the 3 Series Touring and C-Class Estate have too). Unlike more potent A4 and 3 Series variants, the G70 isn't available with four-wheel drive in the UK.,So, has Genesis done enough to make this a worthy contender to those impressive estate car rivals? That's what we'll reveal over the next few pages of this review. We’ll tell you what it’s like to drive, how good the interior quality is, how much equipment you get, how big the boot is and lots more. When you know which make and model of car you want to buy, we can help you find it for the lowest price available if you search the deals on our free What Car? New Car Buying service.

RRP price range	£35,250 - £45,130
Number of trims (see all)	3
Number of engines (see all)	3
Available fuel types (which is best for you?)	petrol, diesel
MPG range across all versions	33.1 - 41.8
Available doors options	5
Company car tax at 20% (min/max)	£2,505 / £3,236
Company car tax at 40% (min/max)	£5,010 / £6,472
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