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(Video Show Version) Why Did Barbie Mod a Genesis Coupe in Hot Pink?!
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Barbie shares her passion for her 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe, uniquely wrapped in hot pink and fully modded with a Barbie theme. She discusses her journey from owning a turbo 2.0 Genesis to upgrading to the 3.8, the challenges and joys of customizing her car, and the supportive car community around her. Barbie also reveals plans for future mods like an LS swap, bucket seats, and pink interior accents. The episode highlights her love for sports cars, the personal meaning behind her ride, and the fun of standing out at car meets and shows.
Topics:
hyundai genesis coupe
car customization
car wraps
car community
car shows
car mods
ls swap plans
female car enthusiasts
manual vs automatic
car meet culture
In this episode of Cool Cars with Chris, we meet Barbie and her jaw-dropping hot pink 2013 Hyundai Genesis Coupe! 💖She takes us inside the mod journey — from her very first Genesis 2.0T to this bold 3.8L build that’s turning heads all over San Diego’s car scene. From custom wraps, spoilers, emblems, and Barbie-themed mods to the dream of an LS swap — this isn’t just a car, it’s a statement.Whether you're into Genesis Coupe mods, female car builders, or just love a good custom story, this ride will inspire you!▶️ Watch now to see why Barbie built the coolest coupe in town, what it means to her, and how it all started from a love of speed and pink.http://coolcarswithchris.com/
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Oh, I love it!
Wow!
Yes!
Now you know where I got the Genesis move.
All right.
Welcome back to another edition of Cool Cars with Chris.
I'm Chris and I'm with Barbie herself.
How you doing, Barbie?
Hey, thanks for having me, Chris.
This is fantastic.
You brought your beautiful car.
I love the color.
What kind of car is this?
This is a 2013 Genesis Coupe, Hyundai.
2013?
Yes.
Nice.
How long have you had this car?
I've had it about eight months.
Eight months?
Yes.
Has it been good to you?
It has.
Yes.
Those secrets about, or the rumors about, uh, Hyundai's and all, just know how to take
care of your car.
Oil change, all that, you know.
Nice.
I love the color, by the way.
Yes.
Did it come factory this way from the factory?
No.
It's actually like pearl white.
Uh, I got it wrapped pink, hot pink.
So.
Of course you did.
Yes.
Is hot pink your favorite color?
Yes.
Nice.
Nice.
All shades of pink, but hot pink is my favorite.
Yes.
Really?
Nice.
So what made you decide to choose the Hyundai Genesis Coupe as your car?
Yes.
So, um, when I was looking into cars, there was a lot of me-automous things.
I mean, I had a lot of choices.
Um, but one that stood out was the Hyundai Genesis Coupe.
Specifically the Genesis Coupe.
Um, just because I did have the 2010 2.0 turbo Genesis Coupe.
So I lost that one.
I did not take care of it.
You lose it?
Yes.
But how did you lose a car?
So, no, we just thought it gave up on me.
The oil changes.
That's why I'm so big on oil changes now.
Oh, wow.
But yeah, you know, I was young, um, my first sports car.
And, um, yeah, I guess, you know, I didn't do the maintenance on it and it did give up
on me, but I told myself the next one that I'm going to get, it's going to be the
biggest upgrade ever.
And here we are.
Really?
The biggest upgrade ever.
So, so you obviously stuck with the Hyundai lineup and you stuck with, with the, uh,
Genesis Coupe lineup.
And these cars are so much fun.
They're so adorable.
So they're like, they're like kind of remind me of the Infinity Coupe, the Infinity G37
and G35.
Yes.
They're kind of like that.
Well, yeah, it's the comp.
Yes.
To that, to that car.
And I love those cars.
I, I love all those kind of cars.
I love sports cars myself.
I had a Z myself.
But this is fantastic.
So, um, you mentioned that this car feels like return to your much younger self.
Uh, can you tell me how or how, how more it connects back to when you were,
were younger, having a car like this today?
I have no idea how old you are, but age is not an option.
We'll keep age out of this.
But how does it relate to your younger self?
Yeah.
So, um, I think it was, um, it was the fact that when I touched the Genesis Coupe
and I first got the sports car when I was young and I first touched,
you know, the speed of it, I, I knew this was the type of car that I,
that I was going to stick with.
Unfortunately, you know, I didn't take care of it, but I did tell myself the
next one is going to be the biggest upgrade.
Um, you know, I had the 2.0 before.
This is the 3.8.
So, you know, to me, it's an upgrade, but it definitely, um, the speed, um,
you know, so it brings me back to, you know, when I first touched the
gas pedal.
That is so true.
You know, when you had the 2.0, did you notice a difference?
In power between the 2.0 and this thing?
Well, you can definitely hear the turbo in the 2.0.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's the only thing.
I don't have the turbo.
Right.
But, but at first I can touch the, touch the pedal.
Yeah.
Do you definitely notice like a feel like it just?
I do.
The 3.0 is definitely faster, but, um, yeah, you can definitely feel,
you know, before, like I, like I said, you could feel the
turbo in there, but I guess you can feel the upgrade on the speed
on the 3.8.
Yeah.
Now, when you take this thing to car meets, what do people's
reaction when they see it?
Um, definitely, uh, neck turner, you know, definitely catches a
lot of people's attentions.
The kids love it.
The girls love it.
Oh, I bet.
I do it for the girlies.
Of course.
Yeah, so.
Now, now you got the Barbie on there and your Barbie
yourself and the whole thing's a Barbie car.
I absolutely love this thing.
Um, do you have a little, uh, Barbie puppy doll to go with it?
This?
I don't.
I'm thinking about something.
Um, I won't, I won't say too many details, but yeah, there
might be a doll coming.
You gotta, you gotta have like something to go with it.
I mean, especially it's Barbie.
Yes.
So I've got to Barbie something to go with it.
Yes.
Maybe, you know, I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I like what you done with the car.
I love the color.
I love the color scheme.
I love the whole like theme Barbie.
It's actually says Barbie, but it's not like too over the
top.
Yeah.
Of Barbie.
It could be.
It could be if we're getting there.
Oh, you're getting there.
So much more to come.
Now, when you, when you have ideas for what to do with the
car, color schemes and all this stuff, do you like have
like a vision board or like a drawing board of all this
stuff on the wall that cases what I want to do with
the car?
Is that what you do?
It's all in my head.
All your head?
Yeah.
But like, I feel like each mod creates the next mod.
Okay.
So like it started with the hot pink wrap, then it went
on with the wheels.
And then it went on with the spoiler.
The spoiler kind of matched the wheels with the heart.
Nice.
Yeah.
And then, you know, everybody was saying, oh, it's a
Barbie car.
It's a Barbie car.
So I was like, let's just make it official.
Then I got the M plates, Barbie, the emblems Barbie,
the sticker Barbie, the stick shift Barbie,
everything, you know.
So, yeah.
So each mod kind of created the next one.
There are any big challenges for you putting mods
together for this car or any things that were like,
oh man, I want to do that.
But I think it's just too big of a project for this car.
So I had a couple of difficulties.
I mean, look, when you're building cars, you're always
going to have someone that tells you, I don't think
that's going to look good.
Or I don't think, you know, if you do this,
it'll probably start going down.
Like for example, they were telling me about my front bumper.
So I took out the stock bumper and then I put in
the mesh sheet bumper and people were telling me,
you know, it's not going to look good.
Leave it how it is.
And I was like, no, I'm going to do it anyways.
I have it, you know, like I said, I have this vision
in my head.
And we went on and did it because I was like,
look, here's the money.
We're doing it.
Nice, nice.
And so, yeah.
So they put it on.
And I remember just walking to the car when it was
done and I was like, yep, this is exactly what I had in mind.
Wow.
It looks great by the way.
It was very clean.
It looks almost like it's stock.
I know it's not stock.
It almost looks stock.
And that gets the thing, we do kind of have mods, you know,
like obviously they're not stock.
And obviously you can tell by looking at them, they're not stock.
But you kind of want to look like they're part of the car.
Like it came this way, like a special dealer like car,
like some cars you buy from the dealer,
they're like done a certain way already from the factory.
And I think you kind of want to make it look like that.
Your car definitely looks like that.
I look out like I clean the lights.
Our two lights are great.
Great.
You'd have these like, what do you call it though?
Were they kind of like, I used to fog up my old lights,
you know, do you get them cleaned up
or whatever you do with these things?
You know, I haven't.
I don't know if I can, but if I can, I want to tint them.
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, okay.
There you go.
Like a pink wrap.
Pink wrapped, yeah.
Pink wrapped.
Wow.
That would be nice.
But I got to see, I got to do my research.
I got to look into it.
Is it, you know, something I can do?
So.
Yeah, I know like doing all these different mods for your car,
you've had a lot of support from your husband.
Yeah.
To helping you do all this stuff.
Yeah.
What does it mean to have this,
like a kind of a community around you and your car
supporting you?
How does it feel?
What does it make you feel?
I'm honored.
Honestly, we did not know this car was going to become
everything that it is today.
We've gotten so much love from San Diego.
I'm truly blessed.
Just honored.
Honestly, I didn't know it was going to become this.
And it's, it's just great.
Honestly, every time I get in the car, it's just,
you can't have a bad day.
You can't.
That's great.
That's great.
Why did I do all these mods on a Hyundai?
You know, why didn't I do it on a Mustang?
Why didn't I get a Miata?
You know why?
Like the regular car girl.
But you know, the stereotypical, I feel like, oh, that's,
you know, all girls like Miata is all girls like Mustangs.
Is that true about the Mustang?
I haven't heard that one yet.
I feel like it is.
Yeah.
I feel like it is because it has the most horsepower.
So like the girls, I feel like they're jumping on that.
And that's awesome.
But I wanted to stick to what I wanted.
Yeah.
You know, and like I said, the car has history.
You don't see a lot of these on the road either.
Yeah.
I didn't see anything when I had my Z.
I didn't see a ton of them on the road either.
Mustangs, you see them everywhere.
We can go out this intersection right now.
I bet you can find out three of them right now on the corner.
When people see your car, what do they say about after seeing your car?
Like, you know, what are the things that you heard them say?
Um, good or bad.
Either way.
Um, well, I've heard that, you know, why did you do all these mods on this
car?
Why didn't you do it on a different one?
But I mean, the good stuff I've heard is like, wow, you know, there's
not a lot of girls that mod their cars.
We need more girls that mod their cars stuff like that.
You know, I do get a lot of appreciation.
That's great.
That's great.
Um, and I just found out today that the car is not a stick shift.
Okay.
But no, that's fine.
But at least you can't drive a stick.
Yeah.
So I'm learning.
Oh, you are learning?
Yeah.
He has the 2013 Genesis coupe.
His is manual.
He is pretty cool.
So, you know, I'm learning from his car.
Um, maybe to one day transition.
I do want to LS swap.
So I'll swap this thing.
You can do that.
Of course you can.
Wow.
Okay.
You're bold.
That's gonna be great.
You know, wow.
I mean, might as well.
I mean, first thing I do is blow the engine.
Get your engines.
Money's worth out of the old engine first.
Yeah.
Blow it and then get the LS swap.
Right.
That's your idea.
Right.
That's great.
So when they tell me all the time, you know, people, they tell me, oh, how's your engine?
Don't worry about it.
Because after that it's LS swap.
There you go.
You thought I'd be getting a tune for the car?
I have.
Yeah.
I have.
Yes.
Um, the thing is that I'm just, I'm still not done.
I feel like there's so much more.
So I do want to get a tune, but I still want to focus.
Maybe another wrap.
Maybe changing the sticker.
Maybe start working on the inside.
I mean, in all honesty, this is more of a car show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely.
How many car shows have you taken this thing to?
Um, about three.
Three so far.
Are they all local or are they?
Uh, yes.
They were all local.
San Diego, one in Escondido.
Okay.
Okay.
Bates Farm, I think.
Yes.
Okay.
Nice.
Nice.
That's cool.
Yeah.
So, um, technically, sometimes there's a fee.
So you pay the fee, you register.
Um, sometimes it's acceptance.
Sometimes, you know, anybody that, that registers their cars is accepted.
So it just depends.
Okay.
Like the hot wheels I went yesterday, that one you had to be accepted.
Really?
What's the waiting period for that?
Um, it was like a day or two.
It wasn't bad.
Oh, it was like months or whatever.
No, no, no.
It was like a day or two.
What's the fee to enter that?
There was no fee.
That's good.
Yes.
What's good?
Yeah.
I think some are actually charged for that kind of stuff.
Yes.
Or whatever.
Wow.
You got a super cool ride.
Super, super cool.
I love what you've done with the car community.
And I saw that you met the mayor.
You have chilled this.
It was yesterday?
Honored, yes.
That is, he's honored too, I'm sure.
I'm more honored.
That's great.
Photo ops.
I always see you on social media and you're constantly posting all kinds of your car
and car community.
So you're likely to think of it all.
Yes.
So you're modeling with the car or something different?
Both.
Yes.
Okay.
Model without, with the car.
I do promos, you know.
Really?
How do you get involved in that stuff?
Like how do you find, you have like a manager or what?
No, I'm actually going insane.
Just kidding.
But it is a lot of hard work.
I do not have a manager, but if you stick to it, I promise you, you can do it.
That's great.
Yes.
Connections.
I've been very blessed in just finding the right people to help me out.
One connection to another.
They've all helped me.
And yeah, I'm very blessed, honestly, to, to have met them, but they've been
helping me out a lot with events because I have someone that used to do like
coordinate events and stuff.
So if I ever do events, she's there to help me with my right hand.
You know, yeah.
The thing is that now in the car meet, it's a little bit like, oh, I have to be
number one.
I have to be, and, and, and, you know, I get there's a competition, you know,
car shows and stuff.
But when it's in car meets and you're just there to have fun with friends.
Yeah, I felt like that changed a little bit.
You know, it's like, who has the biggest car club?
Who has the biggest car crew?
Right.
And it's just, no, it's more like, let's bring it back to like, let's all
help each other grow.
You know, have fun with friends, good vibes, good food, good, good cars,
you know, what else?
It's like family.
It's like Dom, you should always say it's like family, you know.
Now you said LS swap.
Is there anything else you want to do with the car and say, if you keep
the car 10 years from now?
I mean, the goal is to get other cars.
I want, I want all my cars to be pink.
Oh, look at that.
Yes, it would be awesome.
I'm sure I can do that.
Yes.
Where did you get this thing wrapped at, by the way?
True Customs, National City.
Okay.
Yes.
Now, I don't learn a lot about wraps.
Now, what do they tell you about the wrap?
Is it like you can't wash it?
You don't wash it?
No car wash?
What's the deal?
Yeah.
So maybe not going in the car wash, you have to, you know, hand wash
yourself.
Just try to take care of the wrap as much as possible.
You know, the sun, you know, keep it out of the sun.
I keep it in a garage.
I keep it stored.
Oh, look at that.
You know, just for the wrap.
Nice.
There's special things you have to do to take care of the wrap,
but, you know, it's okay.
Yeah.
But how long did it take to do the wrap?
One day?
Two day?
What?
I think it took them about two weeks.
Two weeks to do the wrap?
Yeah, but, well, in their defense, it took about two to three
weeks, but I also took it in for the wrap, for the wheels,
and the tint.
So they did all of that in one.
So.
Now, was there any prep work that you needed to do to get the
good thing done?
Wash, detail, or did they have to clay bar or anything like
that to get the wrap on there?
Yeah, they probably did.
I've watched a lot of videos.
They probably did.
I was not there.
I didn't see.
But yeah, the prepping stuff, I hope that they did.
The clay bar and everything.
How long did you have the wrap?
How long did you have it on there?
I've had it for like eight months.
Eight months?
Yeah.
This looks great.
So, like, as soon as I got the car, I went and got it
wrapped.
Okay.
But I'm saying like, it doesn't look like it's peeling
or like some stickers have fall off.
I don't look too closely.
But I thought I thought it was painted.
I didn't think it was a wrap.
I thought it was actually painted.
Yes.
Is it cheaper to wrap than it is to paint?
You know, a couple more thousand and you can have it painted.
So, it's really what you want to do.
See, a lot of people are like, you know, just paint it
pink, just paint it pink.
I don't know if this is the only shade of pink I want
to have.
Maybe I want to keep, you know, having different shades.
Maybe I want a different wrap, you know.
So, I don't want to paint it yet.
Maybe, maybe in the future, when it's permanent, you know,
when I'm done playing with it.
Yeah, I'll have it painted.
But right now that I want to have, you know, I want to
get creative with it.
I might just keep it like that and just have like
different wraps.
Now, as far as the interior goes, are you planning
on doing anything pink, like over the top in the
interior?
Like seat covers or the plan is?
I want bucket seats.
But okay.
Okay.
So that's the plan.
Later on, we're going to start working on the inside.
I want some bucket seats.
Maybe some more lights.
I want to start maybe getting more pink in there.
It's just, there's a lot of black.
Yeah.
It looks really manly on the inside.
Yeah.
And I got to get, you know, I got to get some pink in there.
Oh, you got to do it.
You got it.
You got to do it.
Is it lower?
Lower springs?
Do you like that on this car?
It has like a performance suspension.
Okay.
But yeah, nothing.
Later on, I want to add some bags.
That's like a big goal.
Okay.
Bags and some Lambo doors.
Oh wow.
You're thinking big.
Oh, but as well.
Yes.
That's fantastic.
Well, I cannot wait to go for a ride in this thing.
Yes.
You want to go for a ride?
Let's do it.
All right.
Let's go.
Oh.
Oh, I love it.
Wow.
Yes.
Now you know where I got the Genesis coupe.
Wow.
And the Brembo brakes.
It comes with the Brembo brakes.
Oh, it's nice.
It stops really nicely.
Yes.
Oh, nice.
Nice.
Nice.
I love the sound.
I know you don't get exhaustive out, but I love it.
Yes.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Wow.
This is great.
Yeah.
So it's great to other people.
My mom does not like it because we could ever have a conversation.
She's like, I could never talk to you in the car.
No, the stock's all of it.
The exhaust is always this loud.
It's always the same thing.
You can't like tone it down or anything.
So I play with it with my foot.
That's why some people don't like it.
Yeah.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like it.
I like to play with it with my foot.
That's why some people are like, oh you have a manual because I like to.
Oh.
So I like to play with it with my foot.
And it makes it sound like it's a manual.
This is great.
This is great.
I love the shifter.
And what kind of shifter is this?
It's custom made.
Oh it's custom made.
So me and the artist have worked really closely with the shifter, the end plates and the
emblems.
up all night trying to figure out how it would look the best. This car is loud
inside out. Yes. That's great. So right now I you know you can't hear it but like
I said I can play what they were. Oh it's that throttle pick up when you use the
throttle it kind of it kind of goes a little bit. Yeah. Okay you ever throw it
neutral to be at the light and keep one foot on the brake and then play
at the gas pedal. I have it but I get tempted. I do get tempted when people are
wrapping at me. Oh nice. We got the paddle shifters too. Oh nice nice. Yes. You ever use
them much? I have not used them. I have not. Should we try it? Okay. Okay. Okay.
This is great cruising in the pink Barbie car. I love it. This is adorable. I love
this car. It's so cute. Like attention over there. Hey guys. Oh they're waving. Yeah.
This is great. Love it. I love it. Yes. It rides pretty firm. You said he had some kind of suspension on it.
Yes. As I think it's performance. Okay.
Yes. Yeah.
Wow.
Definitely fun car. Yes. Does this have like a sport mode or anything? Or is it just regular drive?
It's just regular drive. Okay. Okay. Oh you know it has manual mode right? Yes. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
Let's make that something that I have to learn. Maybe keep tuned. There you go. There you go. Maybe
the next one I'll have the manual. Nice. Yeah. I mean manuals are fun to have.
Automatics are easy to drive. You can get it in drive. You don't think about it too much.
Yeah. So I mean I appreciate both. I used to hate
automatics and then I got my F-150 that had automatic in it. I'm like I see it and that's easy.
Yeah. No but I can definitely tell like how much more fun my husband has driving the manual.
Yeah. Yeah. You know. It is more fun. It's more fun rolling through the gears and getting
like a real good feel for it. Yeah. It's like you're in control of the car.
Yeah. Yeah. This is fun too though. I mean. Oh yeah. Gosh. I didn't know how loud this thing is.
Now this exhaust. You didn't have it done or come with the car? Well make it with a car.
Oh okay. So you don't know. You don't know what it is. Okay. All right. Well no comment.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Don't worry. Pretty stock.
Yeah. It's pretty loud. It's pretty loud though. I just kind of wonder what they
did to the car for the exhaust. How loud it is.
But it's great though. Yes. You know. It's definitely loud inside and out
and the engine is loud and this car is fantastic. Yes. And this has been a fantastic time having
Barbie herself show me your car or Barbie car. This is great. Thanks for having me.
This is fantastic. And don't you forget to subscribe to the show. Subscribe right now.
Barbie says subscribe. Subscribe. See. There you go. How can you not at this point?
And I'll catch you guys on the very next episode.
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