Hyundai i10 N Takes A Digital Swing At The VW Up! GTI

Hyundai might need unveiled the third-generation i10 solely six days in the past, but it appears it’s already engaged on a sporty spinoff. Our spy photographers captured a closely camouflaged prototype within the wild final month, with some styling adjustments that counsel it’s both an N Line variant or a full-blown N efficiency mannequin.

Though it’s not very doubtless, seeing that it’s a metropolis automotive, we hope it’s the latter and never the previous, and so does XTomi.

For this rendering, he imagined a scorching model impressed by the i30 N. Adjustments embrace a reworked entrance bumper with bigger facet air intakes, darkened headlamps, a brand new apron and facet skirts with crimson accents, a roof-mounted spoiler and a set of enormous alloys.

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If the Koreans are certainly engaged on an i10 N, then it will throw the ball in Volkswagen’s yard, going after the Up! GTI, which packs a 113 horsepower, 1.Zero-liter three-pot and desires eight.5 seconds to dash to 62 mph (100 km/h).

Hyundai’s scorching metropolis automotive would must be at the least equally quick to make a powerful case for itself, and never many gear heads would say no to a tiny hatch with round 120 HP or extra which, mixed with the small dimensions and comparatively mild weight, ought to make for a enjoyable little automotive.

The automaker does have the suitable instruments to make the i10 N occur, and it will serve to additional strengthen its N efficiency division. As talked about earlier than, scorching metropolis vehicles aren’t actually the flavour of the second, however since VW does have the Up! GTI, possibly Hyundai, who’s already given the Germans a severe headache with the i30N within the compact scorching hatch area of interest, will determine to do the identical within the decrease phase too.