JUST 5 years in the past, the idea of a Hyundai ‘N’ efficiency mannequin line would’ve sounded a bit just like the product of a advertising, ahem, ‘train’. But the notion of that not simply changing into a actuality but additionally a raging success – each critically and commercially – would’ve been much more wacko.
We’d skilled just a few semi-decent hottish Hyundais as much as that time – the reasonably entertaining Veloster SR Turbo and the mixed-blessing i30 SR – although 2017’s third-generation i30 and Elantra SR Turbo confirmed that deep inside Namyang (and at Hyundai Motor Firm Australia), somebody knew what they had been doing.
However not even probably the most enthusiastic i30 fan may have imagined that 2018’s i30 N can be such a cracking sizzling hatch, for such an important value. Guided by a few of the world’s most interesting automotive engineers, lastly Hyundai had nailed it.
So it’s with a lot anticipation that we strategy the primary product from ‘part two’ of Hyundai’s N roll-out – the facelifted 2021 i30 N hatch.
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