Hyundai i30N

I quite like the look of it :)

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Silent_Scone said:
I guess that's almost to be expected, they're not used to enthusiast customers at this point lol.

I honestly think these have a lot of character, wouldn't mind driving one. I reckon it has more soul than the 7.5 GTI.
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that very one i photographed in the freezing cold is still for sale !
 
HA HA.......... it gets a great review but it's bland, i've seen this one on the roads about 5 times and it looks perfectly ok............. but it's looks like every other car around here, DEAD BORING.
 
I saw one in the flesh for the first time just the other day and have to say apart from the color (blue) it looked and sounded great for what it is. Presumably in n mode on exhaust. Are these rev match features on downshift really that good though?
 
it's damned loud at night too, it's much louder than the videos, the blue definitely isn't the right colour for it though....that one above is sold i haven't been in there since.
you dont need to use the rev match features anyway........you can adjust all its settings

Hyundai are doing some mods to this car for the future, or they've got another one planned for 2019, something about an 8 speed dual clutch..........with a big increase in horsepower but it's hard to tell for sure, but they're definitely moving into performance cars in a big way....2019 is roughly when the next WRX STI will be revealed
 
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I got mine last Friday (previously had a 16 plate ST-3).
Clean Slate colour - very light blue, gey or white depending on the light at the time.

Exhaust note sounds amazing even though I have to keep it under 3000rpm for the first 600 miles - so no pops for now.
But the run off and rumbling sound awesome. Just nudging above 3000rpm occasional and you can hear it starting to make a lot more noise but I have to wait for another 400 miles before I can properly experience that...

Interior is nothing special (better than the ST though!) but that is where they saved the money.

Very happy with it so far.
 
Mal X said:
this is the New Forest, the salesman down here aren't exactly fired up........... most of them are Yawning and scratching their heads when you walk in, the Hyundai dealership is pretty dead...........the New Forest is a great place to live but it's very quiet and unsophisticated, esp around Pennington.
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Haha..having worked at that very Hyundai dealership back when I was a teenager (my dad was the manager when it was Balmer Lawn Garage), I know exactly what the salesman means..everyone living around there is knocking on deaths door :)

Dunno how the place is still in business tbh..it was so quiet that we used to spend Saturday afternoons either having chair races up and down the showroom or playing cricket in the workshop :D

Interesting fact about Pennington..my great great grandparents used to own most of the land that is now Pennington village, until my great great grandad (who had a rather bad gambling problem) lost it in a card game!
 
 
They do look good for a hatch in the grey and black in particular. Got that Mazda mps type discreet status to the less knowledgeable as well.
 
Apart from the forced pops on lift off that is!

Agree though, having seen both a blue and a black one on the road black is by far and away the nicer colour for it.
 
scratch said:
Haha..having worked at that very Hyundai dealership back when I was a teenager (my dad was the manager when it was Balmer Lawn Garage), I know exactly what the salesman means..everyone living around there is knocking on deaths door :)

Dunno how the place is still in business tbh..it was so quiet that we used to spend Saturday afternoons either having chair races up and down the showroom or playing cricket in the workshop :D

Interesting fact about Pennington..my great great grandparents used to own most of the land that is now Pennington village, until my great great grandad (who had a rather bad gambling problem) lost it in a card game!
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ha ha.........you were probably there when the salesman sold me the 2nd generation Hyundai coupe !.............they're not exactly mad keen on the I30N either.......``it's a great car, but nobody wants it around here moan moan moan``...........i'm quiet this year with regards to cars though because i'm worried about mom, she's taken a turn for the worst!

that garage sells loads of cars they're doing ok, but only the boring old fart Hyundais.

Hyundai are supposed to be the next WRX STIs and Evos of this world, but their message of great hope and expectation isn't getting through to Pennington that's for sure HA HA, it's like an OAP Dead Zone.
 
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