The past few months have had no shortage of spy photos showing off the new Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. We know the high-performance electric vehicle is coming, and we have a pretty good idea of when it will. What we can’t be totally certain of is what the Ioniq 5 N will look like. Well, enter Motor1.com’s trusty renders, which have taken our extensive spy photo gallery and imagined what it will look like the fourth model of Hyundai N.
Unsurprisingly, many of the same styling cues from the Veloster N, Elantra N and Kona N will appear on the Ioniq 5 N. That means the N brand color, Performance Blue, on the body. Red contrasts are low on the body, grounding the design. The Ioniq 5 already straddled the line between crossover and hatchback, but the sportier front fascia, which includes additional accent lights in the lower corners, blurs it even further. More aerodynamic mirrors with black caps, body-colored wheel arches and larger wheels on more aggressive tires round out the planned changes.
As for the performance of the Ioniq 5 N, well, our renders aren’t much help there. But we only have to look at the Ioniq’s corporate counterpart, the Kia EV6 for an idea. Kia showed off the 576-hp GT model at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering – one of the first events on the Monterey Car Week calendar – and announced a 3.4-second sprint to 60 with a top speed of 161 miles per hour. There’s no reason to expect the Ioniq 5, in its hottest dual-motor form, to match that level of performance. It would also put Hyundai in the same wheelhouse as the Ford Mustang Mach-E GT and Tesla Model Y Performance.
While our render is based on spy photos and our performance estimates on logic, we’re much more confident about the Ioniq 5 N’s arrival date…because Hyundai said so. During the introduction of the RN22e and the N Vision 74 Concept, the Korean automaker announced that the Ioniq 5 N will arrive in 2023. We are looking forward to it. For now, check out our gallery of renders to see what this high-po EV might look like.
The past few months have had no shortage of spy photos showing off the new Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. We know the high-performance electric vehicle is coming, and we have a pretty good idea of when it will. What we can’t be totally certain of is what the Ioniq 5 N will look like. Well, enter Motor1.com’s trusty renders, which have taken our extensive spy photo gallery and imagined what it will look like the fourth model of Hyundai N.
Unsurprisingly, many of the same styling cues from the Veloster N, Elantra N and Kona N will appear on the Ioniq 5 N. That means the N brand color, Performance Blue, on the body. Red contrasts are low on the body, grounding the design. The Ioniq 5 already straddled the line between crossover and hatchback, but the sportier front fascia, which includes additional accent lights in the lower corners, blurs it even further. More aerodynamic mirrors with black caps, body-colored wheel arches and larger wheels on more aggressive tires round out the planned changes.
As for the performance of the Ioniq 5 N, well, our renders aren’t much help there. But we only have to look at the Ioniq’s corporate counterpart, the Kia EV6 for an idea. Kia showed off the 576-hp GT model at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering – one of the first events on the Monterey Car Week calendar – and announced a 3.4-second sprint to 60 with a top speed of 161 miles per hour. There’s no reason to expect the Ioniq 5, in its hottest dual-motor form, to match that level of performance. It would also put Hyundai in the same wheelhouse as the Ford Mustang Mach-E GT and Tesla Model Y Performance.
While our render is based on spy photos and our performance estimates on logic, we’re much more confident about the Ioniq 5 N’s arrival date…because Hyundai said so. During the introduction of the RN22e and the N Vision 74 Concept, the Korean automaker announced that the Ioniq 5 N will arrive in 2023. We are looking forward to it. For now, check out our gallery of renders to see what this high-po EV might look like.
