---
title: "The Hyundai Veloster N Is Dead: Report"
date: "2022-06-19"
modified: "2022-06-19"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin V. Shaw"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kristin-shaw"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/hyundai-will-end-veloster-production-in-july-report"
categories:
  - "Hyundai News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "compact"
  - "Hatchback"
  - "Hyundai"
  - "sports car"
  - "veloster"
  - "veloster n"
---

# The Hyundai Veloster N Is Dead: Report

![blue car on track](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/19/Veloster-HERO-2a.jpg>)
*\<em\>Kristin Shaw\</em\>*

There aren’t many hot hatches left in the North American market. Unfortunately, industry sources say another one is about to bite the dust: the [Hyundai Veloster](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/41584/2021-hyundai-veloster-n-review-keeps-the-kid-in-you-alive>) is apparently going out of production next month.

[Brought to our attention by *Motor1*](<https://www.kedglobal.com/automobiles/newsView/ked202206170014>) via an exclusive report from Korean publication Hankyung.com, the Veloster model is going to be retired as of July. After 11 years on the market, the Veloster is kaput, [erasing even the N version](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/41511/hyundai-veloster-is-dead-except-for-the-n-version>) that has been holding on by a thread here in the U.S. Presumably, the Korean automaker will focus on its Elantra N, the upcoming Kona refresh (which also has a zippy new N model) and the [all-electric Ioniq 5](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/43395/2022-hyundai-ioniq-5-first-drive-review-more-evs-like-this-please>).

![blue hatchback in front of orange cone on autocross track](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/19/2-1.jpg>)
*Kristin Shaw*

This outcome may have been inevitable, as Veloster sales have been declining rapidly over the last few years; only 86 of the models sold in the U.S. this January, compared to 855 in 2019, 665 in 2020, and 193 in January 2021. In Europe, hatchbacks are typically in high demand historically, but less so in Korea and in the U.S. markets.

The good news is that both the [Elantra N](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/43131/2022-hyundai-elantra-n-first-drive-review-you-cant-spell-fun-without-n>) and the Kona N are great fun, more practically designed, and are within a few thousand dollars of the Veloster N MSRP. During a test day near Atlanta a couple of months ago, I found the Elantra N to be stellar and supremely planted on the big track and the [Kona N](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/41914/2022-hyundai-kona-n-first-drive-review-yep-its-a-big-hot-hatch>) superior on the shorter autocross course. Both are smoother and more comfortable than the Veloster, even if the hatchback has more personality.

![blue car, red car, and blue car lined up in front of garage](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/19/3-1.jpg>)
*Kristin Shaw*

“With the discontinuation of both the hatchback models Veloster and Ioniq, it has also been reaffirmed that ‘the \[Korean\] market is also the tomb of the hatchback,’” [said *Hankyung* reporter Han Shin Park](<https://www.hankyung.com/economy/article/202206178167i>).

That sounds like dark poetry for such a fun, quirky, asymmetrically-doored car. Farewell, Veloster.

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## Author
Kristin Shaw is the former Weekend Editor for The Drive and a current freelancer in both the automotive and aviation worlds. She’s a big fan of anything car-related and calls on her technology background on the corporate side to explain engineering and high-tech concepts. Now living in her sixth state (New Jersey, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia, and now Texas), she is thrilled that working from home is now mainstream.

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