Simply shy of its 8th birthday, Hyundai’s luxurious marque Genesis has bought its millionth automobile.

In line with Hyundai, 1,008,804 Genesis automobiles had been bought globally since its status quo as an unbiased emblem in November 2015 via to the tip of August 2023.

The emblem’s run price has progressed lately, with Genesis breaking during the half-million gross sales barrier in Would possibly 2021 and handiest requiring a coloration over two years to notch up its 2d half-million.

Nearly 70 consistent with cent (690,177 vehicles) of the marque’s gross sales are due to the South Korean home marketplace, with a lot of the rest accounted for via the US, the place 224,646 had been bought thus far.

Stateside, Genesis completed 2022 with 56,198 gross sales, hanging it forward of Nissan’s Infiniti (46,616), Rivian(13,699), Alfa Romeo (12,843), Jaguar (9,668), Polestar (6960), and Lucid (1949).

The emblem nonetheless has a solution to pass to sooner than it will probably overtake the Germans, with Mercedes-Benz (342,887) and BMW (331,543) main the mass marketplace luxurious box adopted via Lexus (258,434), Audi (177,869), Cadillac (134,707), Acura (102,306), Volvo (101,977), Lincoln (83,486), and Porsche (70,036).

Nearer to house, Genesis has bought 2150 vehicles in Australia since its native release in 2017 till the tip of 2022. Gross sales had been rising lately, with 103 bought in 2019 and 1039 discovering new properties in 2022.

In 2022, Genesis outsold Jaguar (700), Alfa Romeo (571), Maserati (594), Bentley (203), Ferrari (203), Lamborghini (176), Aston Martin (132), and Rolls-Royce (60).

There’s nonetheless a considerable amount of sunlight to the German marques which lead the posh race in Australia: Mercedes-Benz vehicles (26,801), and BMW (22,696), that are adopted via Tesla (19,594), Audi (14,732), Lexus (7089), Land Rover (4384), and Polestar (1524).

The Genesis emblem used to be spun off from Hyundai in overdue 2015, and its first product used to be the flagship G90 sedan, a substitute for the Hyundai Equus.

It’s the corporate’s center sedan, the G80 sedan — which began existence as a rechristened Hyundai Genesis — that has confirmed to be its maximum style common, with 390,738 bought thus far.

It wasn’t till 2020 that Genesis expanded its vary and in the end launched its first crossover, the GV80, which used to be temporarily adopted up via the smaller GV70.

It’s those two fashions that experience shifted Genesis gross sales into any other equipment, with the GV80 notching up 173,882 gross sales to-date, and the GV70 including an extra 160,965.

In combination the G80, GV80 and GV70 account for just about 72 consistent with cent of all Genesis gross sales thus far. It’s most definitely protected to suppose the majority of the rest (round 280,000 vehicles) are G70 sedans and wagons.