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Welcome to Critic's Notebook, a quick and off-the-cuff car review consisting of impressions, jottings, and marginalia regarding whatever The Drive writers happen to be driving

Today's edition: the 2018 Genesis G80 Sport

In this day and age, if you're a automotive manufacturer looking to punch into the profitable luxury vehicle market, you need to pump a little sportiness into your cars

The era of floaty, leather-lined boats on wheels has been dead and gone for decades; nowadays, every high-end carmaker is tripping over itself trying to bake driving excitement into its wares, even if they're building soft-roaders targeted at stylish Starbucks-sipping soccer moms

The Genesis G80 Sport—fresh out of the box this summer for the 2018 model year—is designed to be the performance-minded contender for Hyundai's still-fledgling luxury nameplate

On paper, it seems to pack much of the sort of hardware needed to hold its own in the increasingly-competitive middleweight, mid-sized sport sedan class typified these days by the likes of the Mercedes-AMG E43 or the Cadillac CTS VSport: a twin-turbo V-6 (in this case, making 365 horsepower and 376 pound-feet of torque), a sport-tuned suspension, rear- or all-wheel-drive, and a bougie interior with plenty of room for four full-grown adults

(For more on the latter part, see the video embedded fat the bottom of this post

)But if you just grabbed your keys to dash down to your local Genesis showroom with visions of buying a bargain-basement Audi S6 with a 60,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty

slow your roll

In spite of what the specs might suggest, the Genesis G80 Sport is less sport sedan than "sport" sedan

The regular G80 and the larger G90 both firmly occupy the softer end of the luxury car spectrum more commonly associated with Lexus and Lincoln; while the G80 Sport certainly has a sharper edge than either of its relatives, it still leans more towards long-haul cruiser than Nürburgring terminator

(Nürburgstürminator?)And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that

For more infomation >> The 2018 Genesis G80 Sport Is a Sport Sedan in Need of Some Air Quotes - Duration: 2:19.

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After Learning Congress Is EXEMPT From Obamacare, Mike Pence Issues Ultimate Threat… | Top Stories - Duration: 1:33.

Vice President Mike Pence is fed-up with Obamacare — and he's threatening to take away Congress'

special healthcare, giving them all a taste of how destructive the "Affordable Care

Act" really is.

On Wednesday, in an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, Pence was asked specifically

about how Congress is exempt from the Obamacare.

Carlson asked, "Why should Members of Congress and their staffs have a better deal, not subject

to the same rules as everybody else is?"

The Vice President responded with this:

"That's pretty typical of Washington, isn't it?

You, more often than not, see one set of rules for the American people and another set of

rules for the political class here in our nation's capital.

but as we move forward, the point is that whether the president makes a decision, it

would be his decision whether to rescind that special treatment for members of Congress

and their staffs."

He went on to say, "What we want is a health care system that works for all of the American

people."

Pence explained that one element of health care reform should be cheaper coverage.

"I think the primary goal first is to give people freedom over their own health care

choices again," said Pence.

Pence said that the Trump administration intends to keep its promise to repeal and replace

ObamaCare.

Watch the interview here:

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For more infomation >> After Learning Congress Is EXEMPT From Obamacare, Mike Pence Issues Ultimate Threat… | Top Stories - Duration: 1:33.

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guy solves 5x5 while photographer is annoying - Duration: 7:18.

p2: p1 i'm done

p2: oh my god i cannot focus

p1: you know it's quality when the camera starts getting really close to the cube

p2: literally the camera has collided with the cube like 6 times

p1: wow you haven't even solved one side what a noob

p2: oh my god i screwed up my blue center

p2: yeah, alright

p2: this is far from ideal conditions

p1: i'm going to wait

p1: i'm going to do an oh solve in your video to make you feel bad

p2: yeah i screwed up my white side too this is really like not a good solve

p2: oh my god

p2: i'm actually getting dunked on by p1

p1: oh shoot

p2: when you have negative lookahead p1: when you mess up your g-perm and you try to undo but you mess up the undo

p1: are you on 3x3 stage yet? no? what a nooooob

p2: oh no i forfeit

p1: oh no

p2: solves this bad should not be allowed

p1: haha parity what a noob

p2: i screwed up that h-perm though so i did my oll for nothing

p2: we're not talking about this solve all right

p2: i'm doing another one

p1: okay

For more infomation >> guy solves 5x5 while photographer is annoying - Duration: 7:18.

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Is Kate Middleton already planning baby number THREE? Duchess of Cambridge keen for another - Duration: 1:42.

WITH Princess Charlotte settled at home and William returning to work, life seems to have

calmed down for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge but not for long as bookmakers have slashed

the odds on a third royal baby arriving.

Princess Charlotte is only barely out of her christening gown but that hasn�t stopped

royal watchers placing bets on William and Kate adding to their brood.

Sources close to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, whose eldest child Prince George turned two

last month, say Kate wants �at least three children�.

An insider revealed: �Kate is one of three and is very close to her sister Pippa and

brother James.

Although the Cambridges already have a boy and a girl they haven�t definitely decided

to stop there.

They both benefited from growing up with siblings who were close in age.

Of course Charlotte is still only a baby but in a year�s time, who knows?�

Kate and Pippa are just 20 months apart, while James arrived four years after Pippa.

William and Harry are little more than two years apart.

Another factor that has slashed the odds of a third heir to the British throne arriving

sooner rather than later is the Duchess�s age.

She turned 33 in January and research suggests the chances of complications increase as expectant

mothers hit their mid thirties.

On the minus side, however is the fact that Kate has had difficult pregnancies.

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