{"id":2973,"date":"2009-09-28T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2009-09-28T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:38:16","slug":"lipstick-on-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/28\/lipstick-on-a-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick on a Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally saw a Hyundai Genesis sedan last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Up until now, I&#8217;ve only seen it on Korean dramas and in print ads.\u00c2\u00a0 Hyundai is trying to place this car amongst similarly sized upmarket rear-wheel-drive premium sedans, but after seeing a silver example of this vehicle, my impression is, &#8220;it&#8217;s big, but it&#8217;s still a Hyundai&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 The paint finish is not at the premium level, nor is the chrome trim.\u00c2\u00a0 Design-wise, there are a lot of unresolved lines and curves like where the rear windscreen meets the adjacent metal, and the edge of the boot lid and the associated panel lines.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m still waiting for the Federal Government to slap them with dumping for selling this car for $25K USD less than what it costs on the KDM.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/28\/lipstick-on-a-pig\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"asides-permalink\" title=\"Permanent Link to Lipstick on a Pig\">(0)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally saw a Hyundai Genesis sedan last week.\u00c2\u00a0 Up until now, I&#8217;ve only seen it on Korean dramas and in print ads.\u00c2\u00a0 Hyundai is trying to place this car amongst similarly sized upmarket rear-wheel-drive premium sedans, but after seeing a silver example of this vehicle, my impression is, &#8220;it&#8217;s big, but it&#8217;s still a Hyundai&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,12,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-LX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}