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Germany, the place where every complete speed freak feels the need to go at least once in their life and experience the thrills of the Autobahn.
It’s also the place where the Koreans at Hyundai decided to launch a new limited edition of their Genesis Coupe which is supposed to be a GT, something fitting for the occasion and place.
According to the company’s press release there’s going to be a total number of 50 units of the Hyundai Genesis Coupe GT made, each of them sporting a price tag of at €41.990.
Hyundai’s naturally aspirated 3.8 liter V6 develops the same 306 horsepower and 266 lb-ft of torque as in the original car so it kind of makes the GT moniker hard to understand.
There’s a quad-piped, stainless-steel exhaust fitted to this GT, as well as a few other technical upgrades and still the naming eludes me.
Completing the list of updates is a 30 mm lowered sports suspension, a set of 19 inch light-alloy OZ Ultraleggera wheels and Dunlop Sport Maxx GT tires.
Now I see it, that’s where Hyundai got the GT branding idea for their new limited edition Genesis Coupe and it’s almost worse than having no point for naming a car like that.
Officially, the German arm of the Korean conglomerate claims that the Genesis Coupe GT was inspired by the Hyundai Schuhmann Motor Sport Team.
They were the guys that participated in the 24 hour endurance race at the Nurburgring circuit in June with an actual sporty version of the Hyundai Genesis Coupe since it was converted for racing.
On top of this stuff you get an exterior finish that seems to smack of a racing livery and it’s pretty much as close as you can get to having your car look like the racing car.
Like I said before though, it’s not really going to make you go any faster, but the Hyundai Genesis Coupe GT limited edition still has some decent performance figures.
Officialy, the Germany only limited edition can go from 0 to 62 in just 6.3 seconds and it can go all the way up to a top speed of 149 mph.
Source: EGMcarTech
Lupica G. 06 Aug, 2011Car theft is one of the big “businesses” we all fear from time to time but today we find that some of us get an extra reason to do so.
Owners of the Subaru Outback aren’t going to be very happy to find out but as it happens, we’ve gotten some information on how hackers are able to open it up quite easily.
All you need to do to complete the process of hacking your way into a Subaru Outback is an Android operating system smartphone and a firm grasp of the technique they call “war texting”.
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas a couple of smartphone buffs held a demonstration in front of a bit of an audience on how it’s done.
The two are employees of iSec Partners, a very big security firm and they are the researchers that came across this weird happening.
In the case of the Subaru Outback, the hacking procedure doesn’t really seem that complicated which is rather concerning.
Basically, what the two iSec Partners are doing is setting up their own GSM network authentication passwords by way of text messages via this contraption.
In a few minutes, Don Bailey and Matthew Solnik (the names of the two “hackers”) were able to open up the Subaru Outback they were using for the demo and further more, they could even start the engine.
At this point I’m amazed at the skill of what these hackers can do to a Subaru Outback and at the same time owners of the constellation brand are terrified of seeing how easily a chap with high performance phone could get away with their car.
Actually, according to the hacker duo that gave us the demonstration the Subaru Outback isn’t the only car that can be opened and started this way.
In fact, just about any of the modern vehicles that have systems like Keyless Go are susceptible. No matter what sort of electronic signal sent or received it’s possible to intercept and replicate it.
With this special demonstration, the Subaru Outback was actually just the Guinea Pig for the experiment so while it has served its purpose, it’s not exactly the prime target for joyriders who’ve got a bit of a passion for Android powered smartphones.
Lupica G. 06 Aug, 2011