2022 Hyundai Veloster N Review: Can a Car Change Your Behavior?

Auto123 reviews the 2022 Hyundai Veloster N.

The Hyundai Veloster has a strange history. It arrived on the market with great expectations, but it was an oddity, a compact (very compact) car with atypical styling and a three-side door configuration, assembled on the chassis of the Accent of the time.

Those elements didn’t necessarily help the first Veloster’s cause, however its automatic transmission was surprisingly able and behind the wheel, it was a step up from the Accent, to say the least. And probably those very design quirks actually helped make it successful, though probably a bigger boost came from the bang it offered for the buck The base version went for about $19,000 and a fully loaded edition for $22,000, with an impressive amount of equipment.

A turbocharged version was added to the lineup a few years later; in that case, we concluded that was a good idea hobbled by bad execution.

Then the overall sales decline of the car – meaning, anything not SUV or pickup - accelerated, and one of the victims of that was the Veloster - the regular Veloster, that is, because Hyundai decided to keep the variant produced by its N sports division in the catalog. This was an excellent decision we wholeheartedly approved of, especially since this time the good idea has been accompanied by excellent execution.

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