Hyundai has confirmed that its high-performance N division is working on what it bills as a “serious” two-seater sports car.
Speaking to CarAdvice at the Consumer Electric Show in Las Vegas, Hyundai design boss Luc Donckerwolke confirmed that the Korean brand was “definitely doing” an all-new sports car.
Woong-Chul Yang, the automaker’s head of research and development, added that Hyundai had yet to decide exactly where this new model would fit into its line-up.
“The people working on N will be working on that, but where do we put it? The N or above N?” he said, according to the Australian publication.
He went on to reveal the sports car would be electrified.
“It’s really high performance; it’s a serious sports car. We cannot say just hybrid; we will use some electric motors and batteries to give it more performance.
“Some areas we can’t just overcome by putting [in a] big internal combustion engine. We would like to minimise [that] as much as possible and use the best application of electric motors, and in many ways not just for efficiency but performance, to be very much optimised for both powertrains.”
It’s not yet clear exactly which rivals this sports car will be pitted against, but the report suggests Hyundai has already started using a Porsche 911 for benchmark testing…
