The Hyundai Veloster N Performance Concept Is A Harder, Meaner Hot Hatch
If you weren’t already upset by Hyundai’s refusal to bring the Veloster N to our shores, this news piece might just do the trick. What you’re looking at is the Veloster N Performance Concept, and it looks awfully serious.
It’s another of Hyundai’s SEMA 2019 show cars, set to be displayed alongside the amazing iMax 9 drift MPV and the fantastically silly Veloster Grappler mini monster truck. Using the i30 N-related Veloster N as a starting point, it’s been liberally coated in “OEM-quality performance additions,” Hyundai says.
Let’s start with the obvious bits. From KWA we have a new front splitter, rear wing, rear diffuser plus side skirts to aid both downforce and visual badassery, plus a sizeable bonnet vent. The forged wheels are supplied by OZ, measuring 19 inches in diameter and finished with some lovely N-branded carbon centre caps.
It’s much more than just an aesthetic exercise, though. Those OZ rims are wrapped in Pirelli P Zero Corsa tyres, aiding grip and traction considerably. The 380mm front brake discs are teamed up with six-piston Alcon calipers, while at the rear 360mm rotors are squeezed by four-pot calipers.
Take a peek underneath, and you’ll spy Daewon anti-roll bars front and rear, Extreme Racing dampers with H&R springs, and chassis bracing from WIF. So that the car sounds even moodier than the stock version, it’s been given extra volume via a Capristo cat-back exhaust.
Moving to the inside, you will - of course - find Alcantara. Everywhere. Most prominently, the material clads the carbonfibre sports seats, which are the work of Sabelt. There’s also a new aluminium gear knob, a red starter button, and several splashes of orange.
There are no plans to put the Veloster N Performance Concept into production, but you may well be able to buy some of these bits for your standard Veloster N in the future. “These bolt-on accessories are designed to have high potential for aftermarket availability,” Hyundai says.
Watch this space…
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Comments
that actually looks good i kinda want it now
GAAAAAASP
OMG that rear end HNNNNNNNNG want!
This all makes me so happy
Hyundai seems to be doing what our beloved legendary japanese manufacturers should be doing to their cars. That Velo must be a ripper!
Still a korean pos
It’s just a Honda want to be with one less N
Hyundai is my bright shining star in the nightsky at the moment
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