It’s inconceivable to overstate how good Hyundai’s Elantra N is. The mannequin simply fot a facelift final 12 months, and for 2025 Hyundai is making an already good factor even higher by including some motorsport-inspired bits to a brand new special-edition Elantra N. Referred to as the Hyundai Elantra N TCR Version, it’s impressed by the Elantra N that competes within the Touring Automobile Racing (TCR) collection.
TCR automobiles are often production-based sport compacts from quite a lot of corporations, with the whole lot from Hyundai and Honda to Audi and Lynk & Co competing. Engine sizes vary from 1.7 to 2.0 liters, and all are turbocharged. The Elantra N is Hyundai’s third entry within the collection, having debuted in TCR with the i30 in 2017.
The largest distinction for the TCR Version is its huge carbon-fiber rear wing. The light-weight swan-neck wing is totally adjustable, and Hyundai says it supplies optimum downforce. Different adjustments included light-weight 19-inch cast wheels and four-piston monoblock N Efficiency brakes. Inside there’s a particular racing impressed Alcantara steering wheel with Hyundai N’s signature Efficiency Blue shade denoting the 12 o’clock place, seat belts in the identical shade and TCR Version badges. Larger adjustments come for Hyundai’s residence market of South Korea. KDM Elantra N TCR Editions get big Hyundai N emblem decals in black, white and purple that cowl the rear doorways.
Joon Park, Vice President of N Model Administration Group, says the Elantra N TCR version is a end result of the model’s motorsport expertise. “Hyundai Motor has included the expertise and experience amassed in motorsports into ELANTRA N TCR Version,” he mentioned in an announcement.
Hyundai says the TCR will go on sale in South Korea in December; different markets around the globe, together with the U.S., must wait till someday subsequent 12 months. Hyundai isn’t speaking pricing simply but, however it’s protected to imagine that the Elantra N TCR Version will come near, if not crest the $40,000 mark, contemplating {that a} new Elantra N with the automated transmission is already over $36,000.
