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HYUNDAI says it will expand its N performance sub-brand into a showroom-wide options pack as it maps out the future of the standalone division.
This means that as well as expanding the range of N-badged products beyond the firebrand i30 N, it will introduce a range of N Line vehicles that will include “design and performance-enhancing elements”, and customised parts that will be made available across Hyundai’s showroom line-up.
“Our motorsports vehicles will spearhead the N Brand at the apex of the brand’s hierarchy,” high performance vehicle and motorsport executive vice-president Thomas Schemera said. “Not to mention that the valuable experience and technology derived from our success in motorsports will cascade down to all the future N products.”
It is not known what Hyundai’s announcement means here. Wheels has contacted Hyundai Australia for comment.
The improvements have allowed the Korean carmaker to build “high-performance driving technology and an exciting driving experience reminiscent of motorsports, granting dynamic feeling and sensation to everyday drivers” into the hatch.
It also builds and sells a turnkey i30-based touring car called the i30N TCR, which finished second and fourth on its racetrack debut under the Hyundai Motorsport N banner at the gruelling Nurburgring 24-Hour Race.
