Price: Dh146,999
Hyundai has rolled out a series of highly capable offerings over the past few years, but virtually nothing that sends pulse rates soaring. There has been an exception, yet it slipped into the market almost unnoticed.
The quirky three-door Veloster – with two portals on the passenger side and just one on the driver’s side – has been around for several years, but last June the line-up was bolstered by the “N” version. This innocuous-sounding suffix is hugely significant as it brings a performance upgrade over existing variants of the Veloster.
The Veloster N shares most of its oily bits with the lauded i30N (not sold in the UAE), and one of the key ingredients is a punchy 2.0-litre turbo engine that thrashes out 275 horsepower and 353Nm.