Hyundai Ioniq 5 N sizzling hatch sheds some camouflage in official photograph

Hyundai is making ready to launch a faster model of the electrical Ioniq 5 developed by its high-performance N division. The hatchback possible will not make its official debut till 2023, however a promotional video provides us a greater concept of what to anticipate from it.

Embedded above, the eight-minute video sheds gentle on how Hyundai plans to make electrified efficiency automobiles; the RN22e and N Imaginative and prescient 74 ideas each play a distinguished function within the flick. The recent-rodded Ioniq 5 seems on the very finish, and it is sporting much less camouflage than in earlier spy photographs. We are able to inform that it contains a particular entrance bumper with redesigned intakes beneath the headlights and a large air dam.

The video stops in need of offering technical particulars. Like the usual Ioniq 5, the N will journey on the identical Electrical-International Modular Platform (E-GMP) structure discovered below the Ioniq 6 and the Kia EV6. We anticipate that energy will come from an evolution of the EV6 GT’s dual-motor drivetrain, which is rated at 577 horsepower and 546 pound-feet of torque. It ought to get a limited-slip rear differential as effectively.

It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how Hyundai retains the 5 N’s weight in test. Whereas the common 5 is not an enormous automobile, it’s miles greater and heavier than, say, a Veloster. We’re guessing will probably be pretty fast, nevertheless: In its strongest configuration, which means with two electrical motors (one per axle) rated at a complete of 320 horsepower and 446 pound-feet of torque, the non-N-tuned 5 reaches 60 mph in roughly 5 seconds.

Hyundai added that the Ioniq 5 N is “coming quickly,” and we anticipate it is going to break cowl earlier than the top of 2023.