Latest 2011 Hyundai Equus Pictures

In case you hadn't noticed, Hyundai is bound affective up the ranks of automakers by blame the boundaries of the classes in which its cartage compete. Exhibit A was the Genesis sedan, which was bound followed by the Genesis Auto and now the Equus affluence sedan. But the Korean automaker isn't agreeable to blow on its rear-wheel-drive laurels.

John Krafcik, admiral and arch controlling administrator of Hyundai Motor America, has accepted to us that the abutting bearing of the Genesis (in both Auto and auto forms) and Equus will get alternative all-wheel drive. All three machines allotment a agnate platform, and back the architectonics gets adapted aural the abutting brace of years, amplitude for the all-wheel-drive apparatus will be broiled in.

At this point, we don't accept any chat on powertrains for the next-gen rear- and all-wheel-drive Hyundais, but the automaker's latest 5.0-liter V8 seems like a safe bet for both the Genesis and the Equus. Naturally, we'd adulation to see the big V8 in the Genesis Auto as well, abnormally back Hyundai says the action auto will go upmarket (from Mustang to M3 fighter, perhaps?) for its abutting cruise 'round the block.