What a nice shade of blue, I believed when I first saw the 2022 Veloster N sitting down in my driveway. When I opened the door, I was pleased to see that “Performance Blue” exterior paint mirrored through the interior of the sporty minimal hatchback. The seatbelts, the stitching and, most important, the push mode buttons on the steering wheel all proudly fly the periwinkle flag.
The seats are a durable cloth trimmed in leather-based. They are supportive, with sufficient bolstering to continue to keep you firmly in location without experience like you are in the grips of a boa constrictor. The harness pass-throughs flank an illuminated “N” logo. A black, blue and gray striped ribbon operates down the centerline of the seatback and cushion. There are no electric power seats below — all changes are manual. No heated seats either.
The Veloster N has an eight-inch touchscreen infotainment procedure sitting down atop the center stack, under it are a variety of challenging buttons for menu shortcuts, with audio and local climate controls under that. Tucked away even additional down are a pair of USB ports and a 12-volt socket.
Directly in front of the driver is an instrument panel with analog gauges on either facet of a small electronic exhibit. At the best of the cluster is a established of 5 LED shift timing lights that illuminate from left to appropriate in the order of white, orange, orange, purple, purple. Shell out attention with the transmission in manual mode, it will keep on to maintain the equipment when you strike the rev limiter. The shift paddles on the again of the steering wheel take care of you to a rapid swap of the cogs from the 8-speed soaked twin-clutch transmission.
In addition to cloth and leather-based, there are a couple of other elements and textures through the cabin. There are challenging but properly textured plastic trim pieces and higher sprint, challenging and additional historically grained plastics on the decrease sprint, and some agency but not completely challenging plastic at specified touch points like armrests.
As considerably as storage goes, you will find not a good deal. There’s a cubby for a cellphone underneath the center stack. Two cupholders sit in front of the small-ish center console storage bin. There are door pockets, but the left rear just gets a minimal armrest divot. There’s no center seat in the again, so that is where Hyundai place the rear cupholders and a small cargo tray. There are no pockets on the backs of the front seats, either.
The car’s diminutive stature implies you will find not a good deal of area to go all-around, and that is the circumstance. Front headroom is small, and it is really in even shorter provide in the rear. I place my son’s car or truck seat on the passenger facet, and moved the front passenger seat ahead to give him area. Sitting down driving me wouldn’t be exciting. There’s not a good deal of legroom, and you have to crawl in from the passenger facet, as you will find no rear driver-facet door. Cautious in that transit, though. The center cupholders in between the rear seats harm like hell if you bash your elbow or knee on them.
The trunk is spacious, regardless of a small opening. It can be tough loading large or significant goods in there. I also identified it a minimal hard to dig out the rear LATCH anchor from underneath the load ground. It truly is nice that you can hide them, though, in circumstance you have got scratch-vulnerable cargo to place again there.
The full ensemble will work properly with each other. It truly is not a luxury car or truck, and it is really not a regular loved ones automobile. This Veloster N is all about acquiring the sporting touches to match its hot-hatch effectiveness. For a sticker value of $35,005, with definitely zero included options, it is really a successful execution.
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