[00:00] You can shift gears. This is an electric car. How do you shift gears? This is the new 2027 Genesis GV60 Magma. 640 horsepower, 0 to 60 in under three seconds.
[00:14] Pretty insane. But the crazy part isn't the numbers. It's everything else. To me, the very coolest performance-y thing that you can do with this car is you can shift gears.
[00:26] It's called virtual gear shift. You use the paddles on the steering wheel to upshift and downshift just like you would in a normal dual-clutch automatic car. And I got to tell you, it feels just like that, too, when you're driving around.
[00:41] When you press upshift, it gives you a little bit of shift shock, and it feels like you have been gone down in a rev range. They change, like, the makeup, the composition, the feel of the acceleration of the car in order to simulate these gear shifts.
[00:54] and it really makes this car feel like you're driving a dual-clutch automatic car instead of like you're driving sort of a boring electric car with just regular acceleration and no gearing. It is an unbelievable feat.
[01:06] Other automakers are desperately trying to copy this, which Hyundai premiered on the Ioniq 5N, and now it's in this car, and they did such a great job.
[01:18] It is dead fast, And I love how the gear shifting really does get you like higher in the rev range. Makes no sense. But it does that and it feels like that.