---
title: "Hyundai N Confirms Bespoke Halo Car"
description: "The company says its Veloster and i30 N hot hatches are just the beginning."
date: "2018-07-24"
modified: "2018-07-24"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Tsui"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-tsui"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/22369/hyundai-n-confirms-bespoke-halo-car"
categories:
  - "Hyundai News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Hyundai"
  - "Korean Cars"
  - "sports cars"
---

# Hyundai N Confirms Bespoke Halo Car

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Hyundai is preparing to introduce a bespoke, halo N model to sit at the top of the Korean company's performance lineup, a new report says.

Speaking to [*Auto Express*](<https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/hyundai/104128/hyundai-confirms-development-of-new-halo-sports-car>), Hyundai High Performance head Thomas Schemera said that a dedicated N division car not based on an existing Hyundai model is indeed on the automaker's agenda and that the Veloster and [i30 N](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/12428/hyundai-pulls-the-wraps-off-the-i30-n-hot-hatch>) hot hatches were the "completion of the first phase of N vehicles."

"The whole idea is to strengthen the Hyundai brand, to bring more emotion," Schemera told the publication. "I can tell you \[Hyundai engineering boss\] Albert Biermann and myself are interested in hot things and have some ideas in the pipeline for a halo model—rest assured we are coming up with something."

*Auto Express* also reported Hyundai is still conflicted about whether said model would be a low-slung, two-seat sports car or a pseudo-luxury sports sedan in the same vein as the Kia Stinger and Genesis G70. For that reason, don't expect this thing to arrive for at least a few years.

For the time being, the sole Hyundai N product available in the U.S. is the [275-horsepower, three-doored Veloster N](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/17689/this-is-the-275-horsepower-2019-hyundai-veloster-n>). The five-door i30 N remains foreign, forbidden fruit on the shores of North America. [Unless you own a racing team, that is.](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/18382/hyundai-will-race-the-i30-n-tcr-in-pirelli-world-challenge>)

We've reached out to Hyundai for further comment on the newly confirmed halo model and will update this story if we hear back.

## Author
Chris Tsui is *The Drive*'s former Reviews Editor and current freelance automotive journalist. He's based in Toronto.

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