Hyundai i30N in the UK: Time for Coffee?

Tested in the UK means it should drive quite well in the UK, doesn't it?

By Matt Bird / Monday, 15 May 2017 / Loading comments

How many car reviews have you read, on these pages and elsewhere, that conclude along the lines of "but we'll have to try the car in the UK to be sure"? Probably quite a few. Then the UK drive comes and the praise isn't quite as glowing, usually because the ride is unsettled on our (in)famously badly surfaced roads.

Hopefully it's a problem that will be avoided by the Hyundai i30 N, a car that PH remains rather excited about, as it has been subjected to a UK test programme. See look, there's a video and everything.

Albert Biermann features in the video, stating that "We have to make sure that on these challenging UK roads the driving performance is also well suited to everyday use." The roads in question? Well a few appear to be around Beachy Head, subject of a PH Dream Drive once upon a time. Great minds and all that...

There's not a lot more to tell about the car as yet though, what with it still heavily camo-clad. It does appear to have gained a set of trendy - and rather horrid - wheels with the coloured lip between rim and tyre, so let's hope that's just part of the pre-production disguise. The car here uses the manual gearbox too, the same as will be found in the i30 N at the N24 in a couple of weeks time. Hyundai says the race will offer more "valuable insights about necessary refinements and potential performance enhancements" ahead of the car's launch, which is due in the summer. About the same time as the Civic Type R then...

Watch the video

here