If you’re the type of car person who laments the misuse of the word you should click away now, because if you haven’t already guessed from the headline and image, I’m here to talk about the , a with and a sloping roofline. largely used to be a term that was reserved for cars with , but things got blurry in the early 2000s when introduced and launched the original . Now, basically anything with a somewhat sloping roofline is called a coupe whether we like it or not.
didn’t fly me to scenic Minneapolis to bitch about automotive body style terminology, as fun as that might have been. No, I went to Minneapolis to the 2025 Genesis Coupe, and regardless of what you think about its name, I’m here to tell you it’s a damn good luxury SUV that looks and feels special. The GV80 Coupe is obviously very similar to , but Genesis took a few steps to ensure the Coupe buyer gets something unique for the extra dough they’ll spend.
Almost everything about the Coupe is different from the B-pillar back, and it has some model-specific styling touches and cosmetic options throughout. The Coupe is not available with the GV80 SUV’s standard turbocharged 2.5-liter inline-4 engine; instead, it comes standard with the twin-turbocharged 3.
5-liter V6, or that same V6 with a Coupe-exclusive 48-volt mild-hybrid system with an electric supercharger for added power and efficiency. I only drove a GV80 Coupe with the e-supercharged powertrain, which makes 409 horsepower and 405 pound-feet of tor.