The Genesis Mint Is The Luxury City Car Concept No One Asked For... Yet

If you want a car to be all touchy-feely and luxurious inside, but small enough to park anywhere and big enough to take all your shopping and a friend, Genesis has come up with the answer
The Genesis Mint Is The Luxury City Car Concept No One Asked For... Yet

This is the Genesis Mint concept, a city car built to carry two plus luggage in hitherto unheard-of luxury for the class.

It’s imagined as an outwardly minimalist solution to future urban mobility, where space is at a premium and car footprints need to be reduced. Low-slung and coupe-like, it’s nonetheless pretty short. Genesis hasn’t confirmed dimensions but it’s a sort of remix of a Kei coupe for the West.

The Genesis Mint Is The Luxury City Car Concept No One Asked For... Yet

As we all know, what buyers of expensive cars all want is for them to be small, simple and easily overlooked in a car park. We joke, but perhaps in a decade or two the financial elite will switch to dinky cars in an attempt to navigate more easily through the swathes of minimum wage-earners daring to share their roads.

The Genesis Mint Is The Luxury City Car Concept No One Asked For... Yet

To make sure the Mint has enough space for the fruits of a day’s credit-carding along New York’s most famous shopping streets, it only has two seats in its cabin. Behind them is a tonne of extra space for bags, accessed by two interesting dihedral hatches on the rear quarters. There’s no conventional tailgate on the concept.

The Genesis Mint Is The Luxury City Car Concept No One Asked For... Yet

Naturally it’s an all-electric concept, in this case with a range of 200 miles or so. The 350kW fast-charge port is right at the back, in the middle, to make it easy to reverse into spaces and access chargers on either side. Such a car would almost certainly have an automated reverse-parking system anyway.

The Genesis Mint Is The Luxury City Car Concept No One Asked For... Yet

Lightweight fabric, ‘cognac’ leather and seven screens are key tick-boxes in an eco-friendly, user-focused interior where the two seats merge into one ‘settee.’ One of the screens is mounted flush into the steering wheel to display ‘primary driving information.’ Whether it’s enough to tempt people out of massive German SUVs for their four-mile cross-city commute, we’re not so sure.

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RWB Dude

Tesla called, they want their Model 3 bumper back

04/17/2019 - 13:23 |
22 | 6

I don’t see it.. aside from both not having a grille.

04/17/2019 - 15:24 |
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LEitner

Can i say that the basic idea is pretty brilliant? That’s an insanely huge niche that needs to be filled with an EV.
Also: when the most powerful thing in your car is the charger.

04/17/2019 - 13:36 |
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BL4CKF0X

Anyone remember the Aston Martin Cygnet?

04/17/2019 - 13:50 |
10 | 0

We still have the Toyota IQ

04/17/2019 - 14:08 |
11 | 0

Cygnet was a “nessesary evil” for Aston.
This concept is a creating new “niche”, as in title. No one is asking for it … yet.

04/17/2019 - 18:12 |
8 | 0

Do we have to?

04/18/2019 - 02:42 |
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BL4CKF0X

What a stupid concept to have a touchscreen on the steering wheel.

04/17/2019 - 13:55 |
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In reply to by BL4CKF0X

Sorta redundant, but let’s see how it’ll turn out

04/17/2019 - 14:31 |
4 | 0

You mean …. who put cellphone holder inside steering wheel … ;)

04/17/2019 - 18:13 |
6 | 0

Thats why its a concept

04/17/2019 - 22:33 |
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Tgus3

It’s kewl in its own way. But why do all these concept cars have the biggest wheels possible?

04/17/2019 - 14:02 |
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OctyVRS

In reply to by Tgus3

General public member’s find large wheels attractive on all vehicles. part of the reason the mini cooper S is such a good seller. So when concepts are made and want to appeal to people they make the wheels massive to make it appear more attractive.

04/17/2019 - 15:32 |
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RWB Dude

The buttons remind me kind of like the ones in the Chiron and the new TVR Griffith

04/17/2019 - 14:34 |
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Anonymous

Pretty cool actually

04/17/2019 - 14:58 |
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Joel Lundin

I love it

04/17/2019 - 15:20 |
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Bom493

Love the fact that they put 3 pedals in there Lol

04/17/2019 - 15:36 |
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Louis Lestner

In reply to by Bom493

Parking brake?

04/17/2019 - 16:20 |
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RWB Dude

In reply to by Bom493

The far left one is a dead pedal, see how its not raised up like the other two?

04/17/2019 - 16:23 |
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Anonymous

Omg look at that lil baby soooo cute omgggggg

04/17/2019 - 16:21 |
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Anonymous

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

looks like it has down syndrome 😂😂

04/17/2019 - 19:06 |
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