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Details on Hyundai’s Golf GTI fighter have been revealed ahead of its release this year.
Presented to journalists were key specifications on the company’s first full-blown hot-hatch. One it hopes to threaten segment benchmarks like Ford’s Focus ST.
What we can confirm is the car’s 2.0-litre turbo inline-four will pack two different power tunes. The basic i30 N will debut with 184kW, but a performance package will lift power to 205kW.
What’s more obvious is the engine will be exclusively mated to a six-speed manual transmission until 2018, when it’ll be joined by a ‘wet’ eight-speed dual clutch automatic.
N cars will wear unique 19-inch wheels that come wrapped in Pirelli P-Zero rubber.
As heard already in a teaser video last year, the i30 N’s 2.0-litre turbo four will bark through a variable exhaust system
The i30 N is expected to launch halfway through this year, with both road- and track-optimised packages, before an even hotter RN30 hits roads later next year.
